Updates
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...
