Great Problems, Great Minds: Former U.S. Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins Discusses International Security and Weapons

Join the Department of Social Sciences online for its third event in the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series. This event is focused international security and weapons and features guest lecturer Bonnie Jenkins, who served as a United States Ambassador from 2009-2017.

Jenkins was nominated by President Barack Obama in April 2009 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2009 as Special Envoy and Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), U.S. Department of State (DOS). She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS), a 501c3 nonprofit organization; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; and a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington Elliott School of International Affairs.

Future Seminars

Sept. 22, 2020

Elijah Anderson, Urban Society.

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States.

Sept. 29, 2020

Costa Samaras, Infrastructure Resilience. 

Costa Samaras is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Samaras analyzes how energy technology and infrastructure system designs affect energy use and national security, resilience to climate change impacts, economic and innovation outcomes, and life cycle environmental externalities.

Oct. 6, 2020

Shamsnaz Bhada, Engineering Humanitarian Missions.

Shamsnaz Bhada is an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, focusing on systems engineering. Systems engineering concepts push the domain boundary by not only supporting engineering missions but also humanitarian and social missions.

Oct. 13, 2020

Martin Pfeiffer, Nuclear Weapons and Society.

Martin Pfeiffer from the University of New Mexico and the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is an expert in the interaction of Nuclear Weapons and Society.

Date TBA

Jesse Jenkins, Low Carbon Energy Systems.

Jesse Jenkins leads the Princeton ZERO Lab—the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory—which conducts research to improve decision-making to accelerate rapid, affordable, and effective transitions to net-zero carbon energy systems.