Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.
Josef Korbel was a Czech-American diplomat and political scientist. During his public career, he served as Czechoslovakia's ambassador to Yugoslavia and was the country's representative to the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, serving as its chair. After settling down in the United States, Korbel became a professor of international politics at the University of Denver, where he founded the Graduate School of International Studies, which was later named after him, and served as its first dean.
Passa Passa is a weekly street party that originated in Kingston, Jamaica and has spread to other areas in the Caribbean. It is reported to have begun on Ash Wednesday in 2003 with the name being coined by Carl Shelley. It features dancehall music. It has spread throughout the Caribbean including Colón, Panama Limón, Costa Rica and later Puerto Rico. It is similar to a block party. The Passa Passa usually gets started around 1 a.m. and has been known to continue straight through until 8 a.m.
World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science and international relations. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Before 2003, it was sponsored by Princeton's Center of International Studies and before 1951, by the Yale Institute of International Studies. It was established in 1948. The chair of the editorial committee is Grigore Pop-Eleches.
Piero Gleijeses is a professor of United States foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and has also published several works on US intervention in Latin America. He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives.
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod was an American sociologist who made major contributions to world-systems theory and urban sociology.
The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering international affairs. It is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Walsh School of Foreign Service. The journal publishes articles from a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The journal was established in 2000 and is indexed in Columbia International Affairs Online, ProQuest databases, Hein Online, Thomson Gale, and the Public Affairs Information Service. The print edition is published annually.
The James Joyce Quarterly (JJQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1963 that covers critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. The journal publishes essays, notes, reviews, letters, and a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications.
Ian Holliday is a scholar with expertise in British and Asian Government, particularly Myanmar. He is currently the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Social and Political Science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1982, before completing his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Politics at New College, Oxford in 1989. He taught at University of Kent, University of Manchester (1990–99), New York University, and City University of Hong Kong before teaching at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong for six years. He was appointed Vice-President of The University of Hong Kong in 2015.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, commonly known as TSLL, is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the humanities. It publishes essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and all periods of literary history, with selected issues centering on special topics. Founded in 1911 as Studies in English, it was subsequently issued as The University of Texas Studies in English (1949-1956) and Texas Studies in English (1957-1958) before assuming its current name. It remains "one of the oldest, if not the oldest, scholarly journals of its kind in North America."
Nancy K. MacLean is an American historian. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. MacLean's research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th-century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South.
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire is a 2011 book by Taner Akçam, published by Princeton University Press. It discusses the role of the Young Turk movement in the Armenian genocide and other ethnic removals.
Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street is a 2017 history book edited by Tom Goyens and published by the University of Illinois Press.
Filip Reyntjens is professor emeritus at University of Antwerp. His academic training is in constitutional law, but he later pivoted towards the study of politics especially of the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Robert Allan Doughty is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.
Tison Pugh is a literary scholar. He has been a professor of English at the University of Central Florida (UCF) since 2006. Before coming to UCF, Pugh was a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, in the 2000–2001 academic year.
Shelley Rigger is an American political scientist and author. She is professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College. She earned degrees at Princeton University (BA) and Harvard University (PhD)
Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston is a nonfiction book by Edward T. Cotham, published by University of Texas Press in 1998. It discusses battles in the U.S. Civil War concerning Galveston, Texas.
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity, San Antonio, 1821–1860 is a non-fiction book by Timothy Matovina, published by the University of Texas Press in 1995.
Robert Edward Spoo is a professor and scholar of law and of English, an academic of the law and literature movement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship awardee. From 1988 to 2023, he taught at the University of Tulsa, but joined Princeton University as an endowed professor in 2024.
