Alumni

Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:35:54 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, 9I��. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.

New ISID Policy Brief: Climate Resilience in Small Island States: Realizing the Major Macroeconomic Benefits from Adaptation Investments

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:51:01 +0000

ISID welcomes the publication of a new policy brief by Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. In this brief, Saghir and Ijjasz-Vasquez examine how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly affected by the growing impacts of climate hazards, including tropical cyclones, storm surges, increases in temperature, heatwaves, droughts, coastal and riverine flooding, changing precipitation patterns, and sea level rise, among others.

Sophia Weiqi Li, Winner of the 2025 Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:00:44 +0000

The Institute for the Study of International Development congratulates Sophia Weiqi Li, winner of this year’s Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies Prize. Sophia is a Honours International Development Studies Graduate with minors in French Language, Russian Language, and Urban Studies, and is recognized for her paper entitled When Feminists and Imperialists Link Arms: An Intersectional Case Study of the Russian Invasion in Ukraine.

Salisbury Memorial Lecture with Anna Tsing

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:24:01 +0000

Fish that Empty the Water: Co-Species Invasion as Occupation

Samar Zora Memorial Event

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:13:09 +0000

Roundtable discussion: The Difficulty of Reality

Belonging as Freedom: Post-Slavery Trajectories of Emancipation from Southern Senegal, 1950s to Present

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:11:10 +0000

9I�� Department of Anthropology Speakers’ Series

Alice Bellagamba
Università di Milano-Bicocca

Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, Ph.D. - Lidar mapping in a Zapotec sacred mountain: Archaeology of Guiengola, a fortified Mesoamerican city

claire.ward@mcgill.ca — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:30:36 +0000

Lidar mapping in a Zapotec sacred mountain: Archaeology of Guiengola, a fortified Mesoamerican city

Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, Ph.D.
Banting Postdoctoral Researcher, 9I��

Dean's Reception for Fellowship Recipients

hillary.muller@mcgill.ca — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:02:30 +0000

Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)