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Social Science Space editor Michael Todd interviewed AAPSS Executive Director Tom Kecskemethy about the Moynihan Prize; the following is reprinted from Social Science Space. The American Academy [...]

James S. Jackson, the 2012 AAPSS W.E.B DuBois Fellow and the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan, died on September 1 following a [...]

You’ll be hearing from the AAPSS staff again in the very near future because, on September 1, we’ll be calling for nominations for the 2021 Moynihan Prize, an award that is meant, at least in [...]

AAPSS Fellow Raj Chetty–working with a group of researchers from Opportunity Insights, a nonpartisan research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity that he [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reduced human impact on the planet in 2020, providing a unique opportunity to observe the influence of humans on the environment and to consider a number of [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on educational opportunity gaps, one of the lingering consequences of increasing economic inequality over the past several decades. The struggle to [...]

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science announces a special issue on "The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact."

by Kenneth Prewitt Columbia University & President, AAPSS How many social science books, articles, workshops, conferences, courses, surveys, and dissertations on racial inequality in the last [...]

Oliver Williamson, the 2000 AAPSS Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow and 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, died on May 21 of complications from pneumonia. He was 87. [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages through a presidential election year, the one thing that is certain is uncertainty. Many experts predict that virus caseloads will rise and fall in the US in waves [...]