Bridging Horizons
innovation, Identity and Global Futures
Volume 1, Issue 3 — March 2026
Published July 2026
ISSN: 3069-8200
The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) proudly presents Volume 1, Issue 3 (2025), Bridging Horizons: Innovation, Identity, and Global Futures — the third installment of our inaugural publishing year.
Building upon the foundations of Voices in Convergence and Frontiers of Inquiry, this issue deepens PJIR’s commitment to rigorous, cross-disciplinary scholarship that confronts both emerging and enduring global questions. The research featured in this edition traverses scientific innovation and technological transformation; re-examinations of social, cultural, and political identities; ethical dimensions of public policy and governance; and evolving intersections between health, economics, and global development.
Two Best Paper selections exemplify this breadth: "Deepfakes On Trial: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Perceptions and Regulatory Concerns about Non-Consensual Deepfakes at the London School of Economics and Political Science," which interrogates the ethical and regulatory implications of emerging synthetic media technologies. Meanwhile, "Interpretable Transfer Learning with EfficientNetB0 for Automated Detection of Rare Anemia Morphologies in Peripheral Blood Smears" demonstrates how advances in machine learning and biomedical imaging can be translated into clinically meaningful diagnostic tools, highlighting the growing convergence of computational innovation and medical practice.
Alongside the two Best Paper selections, this volume features contributions addressing religion and social meaning, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. We hope these studies encourage readers to draw connections across fields and to approach complex contemporary questions with intellectual openness.
All accepted articles are published online under ISSN 3069-8200.
Editor’s Note
Serious scholarship often begins with a single, well-defined question. Yet the moment we follow that question far enough, we find it rarely stays in one place. Questions about attention become questions about education and equity. Questions about algorithms become questions about trust and accountability. Questions about biological systems quickly intersect with questions about human experience. This issue brings together work that reflects precisely this movement across boundaries.
In this volume, we are proud to feature research on ADHD, the effects of racial bias in dermatology datasets on convolutional neural networks, the emerging legal terrain of deepfakes, sustainable building materials, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. The issue also includes work engaging questions of religion and belief, examining gender and social identity, and exploring problems in linguistics, and more.
We celebrate interdisciplinary scholarship not as a slogan, but as a practice. The work collected here demonstrates careful technical reasoning alongside ethical awareness and social sensitivity. It shows that strong research does not dilute disciplinary rigor; rather, it is often strengthened when scholars remain attentive to the wider implications of their methods and findings.
PJIR Editorial Team
Articles in This Issue
Unveiling Truth Through Gestures: A Multimodal Deepfake Detection System
Author: Vishruth I. Rao
Affiliation: Eastlake High School
Abstract:
Over the past few years, generative artificial intelligence and other deepfake technologies have been improving every day. Although these technologies have many useful applications, they are also being used maliciously to spread fake news, blackmail, scam, and cause cyberattacks. Thus, it is important to accurately detect if these videos are real or if they are the creation of artificial intelligence...
Keywords: deepfake detection, gestures, keypoints, artifacts, deepfakes
Deepfakes On Trial: A Mixed-methods Study of Student Perceptions and Regulatory Concerns about Non-consensual Deepfakes at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Authors: Anastasiya Popelo, Ann Yi Ngai, Hana Reid, Hanbhin Seon, Cezara-Teona Zaharia
Affiliation: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Abstract:
Despite the extensive academic discussion on borderless personal and legal repercussions of deepfakes, limited studies have explicitly investigated the youth’s awareness about non-consensual deepfakes and perception of the need for stricter law enforcement...
Keywords: non-consensual deepfakes, criminalisation, gender-based violence, victim-centred laws, students
Comparative Analysis of AI-Generated Translations of Ancient Greek Texts
Author: Jacob Wu
Affiliation: Del Norte High School, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract:
This paper examines differences between AI-generated and human translations of Ancient Greek texts to assess the reliability of generative AI models. Focusing on verb semantics, it compares English translations produced by ChatGPT to those by established scholars, W.H.S. Jones (Pausanias) and Charles Darwin Adams (Hippocrates), analyzing two context-independent passages...
Keywords: AI, translation, ancient Greek
The Idolization of Wealth and the Moral Decline in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Author: Samaya Shah
Affiliation: Cambridge Centre for International Research
Abstract:
This study explores Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend as a critique of Victorian society’s idolization of wealth, arguing that money replaces traditional moral and religious values, leading to widespread social and moral decay. Dickens illustrates this shift through his complex characters from the upper and lower classes, including Lizzie Hexam, Eugene Wrayburn, Rogue Riderhood, and John Harmon...
Keywords: Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Victorian Society, Wealth, Morality
Citation for This Issue
Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. (2026). Volume 1, Issue 3 — Bridging Horizons. PJIR.
https://www.princeton-press.com/pjir/issues/vol-1-issue-3
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