AAPSS In the News

Every year, the AAPSS welcomes a group of accomplished scholars and public servants into the Academy as Fellows. In the past, this group’s accomplishments and contributions have been [...]

Seven decades ago, Robert Merton alerted social scientists that the application of their work in policymaking “has not been systematically reviewed and codified.” Consequently, he wrote, we don’t [...]

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 […]

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. [...]

Webinar: Preventing Fatal Police Shootings Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. EDT Every year, more than 1,000 Americans die during encounters between police and citizens. And contrary to [...]