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PIIRS names Class of 2015 Hall named 2014-15 World Undergraduate Fellows Politics Visiting Fellow Eleven members of the Class of 2015 They also represent a wide range of Peter Hall, the have been named PIIRS Undergraduate certificate programs: creative writing, Krupp Foundation Fellows as part of an initiative that humanistic studies, French language and Professor of provides funding for senior thesis-related culture, global health and public policy, European Studies research abroad. Under the guidance Latin American studies, medieval studies, in the Department of fellowship adviser Michael Laffan, a Portuguese language and culture, Spanish of Government at professor of history, the students spent language and culture, theater, translation Harvard University, the first part of the spring 2014 semester and intercultural communication, and has been named the preparing research proposals that are urban studies. 2014-15 World eligible for between $3,000 and $5,000 Laffan’s role is to help the students Politics visiting fellow. in support from PIIRS. develop advising relationships with faculty Hall, who is also a faculty associate of The fellows presented their completed members as they prepare their proposals in Harvard’s Minda de Gunzsburg Center proposals on April 15 and will meet in advance of their senior thesis. To become for European Studies and co-director of May to begin planning their postsummer eligible for funding, proposals must be the Program on Successful Societies at fellowship activities. approved by the PIIRS director. the Toronto-based Canadian Institute for The students represent eight The fellowships are open to Princeton Advanced Research, has published widely departments — anthropology, molecular students who are about to enter the second on European politics, comparative public biology, architecture, history, East semester of their junior year on campus. policymaking, comparative political economy, Asian studies, French and Italian, Slavic The program is in its third year. and institutional analysis, for which he has languages and literatures, and the received several prizes. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and His current research centers on International affairs. understanding how institutions structure interaction in the political economies of the developed democracies. He is exploring the evolution of varieties of capitalism and the political dilemmas generated by the Euro crisis and working on the issues related to methods of political science. Hall’s recent book, “Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era,” was published in 2013. Earlier works include “Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health,” co-edited with Michéle Lamont (2009); “Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Advantages of Comparative Advantage,” co-edited with David Soskice (2001); and the Woodrow Wilson Award-winning “The Political Power of Economic Ideas” (1989). The fellowship is funded jointly by PIIRS and World Politics, a quarterly journal of international relations published under the sponsorship of PIIRS. Hall’s appointment is effective Sept. 1. PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows, Class of 2015. Back row, from left: Misha Semenov, Andres Parrado, Luke Politi, Katie Horvath, Arjun Naidu, Rachel Reiss. Front row, from left: Rachel Skokowski, Rafael Saiz Garcia, Kassandra Leiva, Jake Robertson. Not pictured: Michael Kochis. 3 PIIRSNEWS SPRING 2014