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Fellow Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania is the coauthor of a study that finds that male spouses are just as likely to care for their wives during illness as wives are to care [...]

On July 19, the Academy joined the Brookings Institution for an event marking the publication of the July 2018 volume of THE ANNALS, Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a [...]

Board member Arthur Lupia has been selected to head the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation.  This directorate supports research in [...]

The Academy’s 2018 annual Gala Dinner was held on May 17, at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC.  At the dinner, the Academy inducted five new fellows: Maria Cancian of the University [...]

On May 17, 2018, Dr. John Holdren gave the 2018 Daniel Patrick Moyihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC, to an audience of about [...]

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) is seeking a part-time digital coordinator to assist staff in managing digital projects as well as occasional support for outreach [...]

The American Academy of Political and Social Science is pleased to announce the scholars who have been elected as 2018 Fellows of the Academy. Every year the AAPSS elects scholars who have [...]

While it often seems that America’s rural/urban divide has never been greater—a point reinforced by large geographic disparities in support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election—it [...]

Fellow Richard Schwartz passed away on October 10, 2017, at the age of 92.  A sociologist of law, Schwartz taught at Yale, Northwestern, and Syracuse universities, and at SUNY.  He was a [...]