[ASA_PEWS] Fwd: launching the JHU Center

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

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From: Monica Prasad <mprasad at jhu.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Subject: launching the JHU Center
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Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who was at the meeting last week for launching the Johns
Hopkins Center on Global Poverty!

This Center has a very clear mission, fostering qualitative research on
international development to come up with new approaches for ameliorating
global poverty.  At last week's meeting we came up with a basic structure
of how the Center will operate: at least for the first few years, anyone
can propose an initiative, and it's up to you to develop your initiative in
whatever way you wish.  Whichever initiatives survive/attract energy will
end up being what the Center is.

Here are some of the initiatives that people proposed and will be
overseeing so far:

RINA is starting an initiative on rethinking development through the idea
of economic security.  To help her on that please email her at
agarwala at jhu.edu

RYAN and AARUSHI are taking charge of multimedia operations, starting with
short video interviews with faculty.  Email them at rcalder at jhu.edu and
aabhandari at davidson.edu if you'd like to help conduct the interviews or be
interviewed.

JENNIFER will think through how the Center can partner with social
movements.  Jennifer.Keahey at asu.edu

MONICA is putting together internships for JHU undergrads at development
organizations in DC.  If you are either an undergrad at JHU or a
development organization in DC interested in this, please email
mprasad at jhu.edu

MONICA is going to work with others on an edited volume on sustainable
development—the idea being that the best way to demonstrate the potential
of qualitative methods is to actually use them to help solve a problem.  If
you're interested in participating please email me at mprasad at jhu.edu.

We have a bare-bones website <https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/> that we
will be filling out over the next weeks and months with more on each of
these initiatives.

If you are interested in starting something new, just email me!  There is
no shortage of possibilities. One idea we had, but that no one has
volunteered to lead (yet) is submitting panels to the annual World Bank
conference <https://www.worldbank.org/en/meetings/splash/annual>.  Another
idea was qualitative research *of * RCTs, including ethnographic studies of
RCTs in process (see these two
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/socf.12421> great
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2020.1762864?casa_token=UfSiVXo3UkIAAAAA:t38zPvQ7p899CH_HEuXnl3-J9QIz1cekcay2UvECMo9yutwBDp5hKiOKDjFkUlBVkAZgMRpkUaMQ>
examples)
and study of when and why policymakers act upon or ignore evidence produced
by RCTs.  Another idea is an edited volume using historical process tracing
to study causes of economic growth and failure.

If you'd be interested in leading these, or have some other idea (book
reviews? a blog?), please email me.

Until we get a listserv going (if you'd like to do that email me!) please
let me know if you'd like to be removed from the list.  If you know others
who would like to be added to the list please ask them to sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JdJ0dK65djBbTTb0sZ9Zs7pOQqrc5jbY0Q4x3vwFltA/edit>
.

Stay tuned for more soon.  In the new year we will think about how often to
meet as a group, what kinds of workshops and webinars will be most helpful,
etc.

All best,
Monica P.



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