2025-26 Year In Review

For the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 academic year, the Atlas’ Editor-in-Chief was Jack Whitten, MAIA ’26. You can read his Editor’s Farewell here. Under his tenure as EIC, the Atlas achieved the following:

Published Writing

Strengthening Indigenous Housing through Build Canada Homes by Robert Trottier

The Evolution of Contemporary Sino–Russian Relations in the 21st Century by Kabir Hasan Khan

Violence Begetting Violence: Arms Control Challenges in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus by Isabel Silagy

One Stone, Two Birds: Shanghai’s Lessons for Green Infrastructure by MJ Taylor

Laos and Vietnam: A Comparative Study of the Applications of Communist Market-Based Economies by Charles Gobert

The Atlas Conference

On April 24th, the Atlas hosted its third annual research conference, entitled “Resilience.”

The Atlas Podcast

Hosted by MGP student Logan Hall, arranged by Conference Co-Chair Tatiana Azouri, and recorded and edited by Jack Whitten, the Atlas published a new episode of its in-house podcast for the first time in over a year. We interviewed Professor Nasir Almasri about his research on how movements rise and fall.