A new review of @profmarycollier.bsky.social's @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, 'Reimagining Aid,' in Pacific Affairs: "[...] rare, ground-level insights into how aid is experienced and negotiated by those implementing it." ⬇️

Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia

Published in Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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This is honestly pretty devastating. The shrinking pool of money for research, especially for young scholars, due to federal level cuts is stifling the creativity, innovation, & scientific rigor needed to build better societies. Our country is playing, and currently winning, a game of self-sabotage.

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

My book has gotten its first review! Thank you very much to @tdocarmo.bsky.social for taking the time to do it. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Review of “Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia”

Mary-Collier Wilks opens Reimagining Aid at a USAID workshop in Phnom Penh where a debate erupts over whether Western ideas about gender empowerment can co

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It's an honor to have my first time being quoted in the news in this well researched piece on the consequences of USAID's closure in Cambodia. thediplomat.com/2026/07/1-ye...

1 Year On, Cambodia Is Still Feeling the Impact of USAID’s Demise

To many in the country’s development sector, the sudden collapse of the U.S. aid agency felt “like an earthquake.”

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The White House Office of Management and Budget’s proposed changes to rules governing federal financial assistance, including research grants, will shift decision-making power to political priorities. Tell the OMB how this proposed change impacts you before July 13! Read how: https://bit.ly/4vCt0zY.

Stanford is having a 53% off sale with the code SGermain until June 26 if anyone wanted to think about the future of aid and development for their summer reading it would be a great time to buy my book :) www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Excited to be doing a virtual presentation tomorrow at 1pm alongside some economic sociologists I really admire!

They are proposing to end all NSF funding for social sciences by 2027....

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Update on Proposed Dissolution of SBE Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) On Friday, April 3, 2026, it was reported that interim leadership at the National Science Foundation announced during an internal all-staff meeting that they would preemptively start making moves to dissolve…

I feel like a lot is going on right now but Trump dismantling the NSF SBE feels like something we should talk about ifk dcsociologicalsociety.org/news/13617821

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Pres Trump's budget proposal cuts 54 percent of the Nat Science Foundation. The SBE directorate funds 63 percent of NSF academic research -- and will be zeroed out. Devastating to research on (1) Accountable Institutions program and (2) Security and Preparedness program apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

Dire insights on the precipitous drop in global foreign aid (ODA) in 2025 by @stephenbrown.bsky.social for the McLeod Group: www.mcleodgroup.ca/2026/04/2025...

2025: The Year Foreign Aid Fell Off a Cliff - The McLeod Group

McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, April 20, 2026 The latest numbers on foreign aid are out, and 2025 proved to be a record-breaking year – but not for the right reasons. It was a historic retreat, w...

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I'm excited to say I had the opportunity to write a policy brief, "Co-Creation Plus Cash" for the JHU Center on Global Poverty. Check it out here: sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/policy-b...

Policy Briefs | Center on Global Poverty

2026 Policy Brief #1 "Co-Creation Plus Cash" Mary-Collier Wilks, University of North Carolina Wilmington

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If you're at the University of Iowa, I'll be giving my book talk here today at 2:30 in McBride Hall! events.uiowa.edu/event/37095

This week is my mid-West tour! I'll be doing a virtual book talk with Indiana University on Wednesday and I'll be at the University of Iowa in person for a book talk on Friday. events.uiowa.edu/event/37095

Thanks to my friend @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social, I'll be doing a virtual book talk next Wednesday with Indiana University Bloomington. Check out the registration link below!

At AAS in Vancouver, I got to see my new book, Reimagining Aid, which investigates how foreign aid in Southeast Asia is being transformed by our increasingly multipolar world, out at the press booth for the first time! @aparc.stanford.edu @stanfordpress.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

4/1/26 1 PM ET: Join @profmarycollier.bsky.social for a Zoom discussion of her new book Reimagining Aid. Hosted by Indiana University's Tobias Center and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

If you're going to AAS in Vancouver this year and you're an early riser, please consider checking out our panel, "Global Health Imaginaries and Governance in Southeast Asia" on Saturday. Excited to be presenting on my book and attending AAS for the first time!

#MorningReads Book Review: Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy By Andréa Becker

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Just out here trying to get the word out about my book 😅 classnotes.uvamagazine.org/person/mary-...

If you're in the Wilmington area, my colleague, @erin-michaels.bsky.social and I are having a book event this Friday!

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

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I'm thrilled to share that my first book is now out!!! nyupress.org/978147982339... Many thanks to ‪@ilenekalish.bsky.social‬ & the whole team at ‪@nyupress.bsky.social‬ for helping me bring this into the world!

Test, Measure, Punish

The risk of closure and repression in schoolsIn the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to...

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If you'll be at the Sociology of Development Conference or in the Princeton area this weekend, please come and check out my first ever author-meets-critics panel. It's on Saturday at 4pm! #SocDev #authormeetscritics

Can't say I am shocked...

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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Emily Oster now writes that RFK Jr’s new dietary advice—which included eating more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow & full fat dairy—is “fine and arguably positive advice well worth following” 👀 Half the advisers who shaped the advice have financial ties to the livestock or dairy industries 👀