ITPIR's scholarly projects foster student-faculty collaboration, leveraging the energy and acumen of undergraduates to conduct research, create knowledge and make recommendations to policymakers for addressing the world's challenges.

Our efforts aim to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of international relations. Thanks for your interest in our work.

Sincerely,

Mike Tierney, Director

Professors Dennis Smith and Amy Oakes and PIPS fellows participate in a State Department Diplomacy Lab teleconference on the relationship between prisons and insurgency.

William & Mary is one of just two universities piloting a new program for the U.S. State Department that will help policy makers address pressing world issues. PIPS fellows will visit with Secretary of State John Kerry regarding the Diplomacy Lab program, in which faculty and student teams collaborate to tackle complex, real-world diplomatic challenges. The University of Virginia is the other participating school. Read the full story.

Is it possible to analyze the diffusion of funding earmarked for a specific type of project in one country?

That was the question Karen Grépin, assistant professor of global health policy at New York University, asked of her global health team during the inaugural AidData Research Consortium (ARC) Jan. 8-11 in Williamsburg.

Katy Money, '12. Former AidData RA. Earned a MS from London School of Economics in 2013 in Development Management, specializing in complex emergencies, ICTs for socioeconomic development, global environmental governance, and wrote her dissertation on crisis mapping for humanitarian assistance. Most recently accepted position at Chemonics International in D.C.

Allison Callery, '11. Currently working at Booz Allen with the Transition to Veterans Program Office in the DoD's Personnel and Readiness office. Earned a MA in Security Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.

Doina Anca Cretu, '11. Former ITPIR RA who worked on BIRP (now Reform Incentives), currently pursuing a Ph.D. in International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; also consulting for projects regarding youth at risk and urban peace building in Southeast Europe.
Benjamin Strahs, '09. Former IT guru who built some of the first software used at PLAID (now AidData). The TRIP project still uses Ben's coding interface. Currently a software engineer for Facebook, leading the D.C. office.

Joanna Watkins, '04. Former PLAID veteran now working as a Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank in the Governance & Public Sector Management Group on projects aimed at making developing country governments run more effectively and efficiently -- covering topics such as performance management, public finance and human resource management across the globe. 

Jen Keister, '03. Dragooned (or naively volunteered) into the early versions of both PLAID and TRIP just prior to graduating in '03, and had intermittent participation with the projects over the following few years. Then joined the growing WM-UCSD cabal, and earned an MA ('06) and Ph.D. ('11) at UCSD working on civil war/insurgency/terrorism issues. Currently a visiting research fellow/postdoc at the Cato Institute in D.C. on national security issues, and development consulting as well.