Updates
December 15, 2024 WASHINGTON – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab presented on the problems of U.S. nationhood at National Defense University Dec. 10, his sixth annual lecture to the body. At the invitation of the university’s International Fellows Program, director Colin Woodard addressed an audience of 225 international and U.S. fellows,...
December 5, 2024 KINGSTON, R.I. — Project Director Colin Woodard has been speaking about Nationhood Lab’s work across the country, with recent events at Brigham Young University, the Gloucester Meeting House in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the University of Rhode Island, Gettysburg College, University of New England, Bates College, the University of Maine and, virtually, with the National Conference...
October 23 2024 NEWPORT, R.I. – A series of newly published studies have revealed significant differences between U.S. regions in arthritis, avoidable dental problems, and poor dietary patterns, as well as revealing a link between wellness and voter turnout. The research is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Salve Regina University’s...
NEWPORT, RI— A new national poll from Salve Regina University’s Pell Center and Embold Research shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump by four percentage points among likely voters, but with large differences between age groups, ethnicities, and historically-based U.S. regions.
July 9 2024 NEWPORT, R.I. – A series of newly published studies reveal significant differences between U.S. regions in various measures of health and healthy lifestyles, life expectancy, and COVID-19 infection, vaccination and death rates, with southern regions showing the worst problems. The research is the result of an ongoing collaboration between...
April 3, 2023 NEWPORT, RI – Voter participation and health outcomes in the United States are interrelated, according to a new academic paper in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americas built on the work of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab. “Voting is a means by which people can influence policies...
January 13, 2023 NEWPORT, R.I. – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab delivered keynote remarks at a vigil commemorating the Jan. 6 coup attempt in which he warned of the imminent threat of an autocratic takeover. “Far too many Americans are asleep,” Colin Woodard said. “They don’t realize the threat...
December 10, 2023 WASHINGTON – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab presented on the problems of U.S. nationhood at National Defense University Dec. 6. At the invitation of the university’s International Fellows Program, director Colin Woodard addressed an audience of 120 international and U.S. fellows, university faculty and staff on the...
October 2, 2023 WASHINGTON – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab presented on the project’s utility in understanding U.S. health outcomes at a working group of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Sept. 27. Colin Woodard, who directs the project at the Salve’s Pell Center for International Relations and...
September 14, 2023 WASHINGTON – On the invitation of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), the director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab addressed the weekly caucus meeting of Democratic Senators last week about the challenges to maintaining U.S. nationhood and how to help overcome them. Colin Woodard,...
July 27 2023 NEWPORT, R.I. – Newly published research reveals stark differences between U.S. regions in the prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and physical inactivity, as well as access to exercise opportunities, with the problems especially acute in southern regions. The research is the result of a collaboration between Salve Regina University’s Nationhood...
May 9, 2022 BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab addressed the Milken Global Conference last week to discuss the nature of the divides in the United States and approaches to healing them. Colin Woodard, who directs the project at the university’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, made his...
March 30, 2023 NEWPORT, RI—Nationhood Lab, a project at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, unveiled its the center announced the membership of its advisory council today. The members of the council — a group drawn from across the United States with a diverse range of expertise,...
January 30, 2023 WASHINGTON – The director of Pell Center’s new Nationhood Lab project addressed the annual meeting of France’s consul generals and honorary consul generals to the United States at the Embassy of France on January 20, 2023. At the invitation of French Ambassador Phillipe Etienne, Colin Woodard shared his analysis...
January 4, 2023 NEWPORT, RI—Colin Woodard, a New York Times best-selling historian and Polk Award-winning journalist, will lead the newly formed Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, the center announced today. The project, an outgrowth of Woodard’s scholarship, seeks to articulate a story of...
November 17, 2022 BRUSSELS – Pell Center visiting senior fellow Colin Woodard Nov. 16 addressed the State of the Unions conference, an annual event in the European capital convened by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Brussels-based Foundation for European Progressive Studies. Woodard discussed the results of the...
December 14, 2021 NEWPORT, RI—Best-selling author Colin Woodard has been named a Visiting Senior Fellow at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. The author of six books, including “Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood” as well as “American Nations: A History of...