AAPSS In the News

From birth to age 18, over one-third of U.S. children are investigated by child welfare systems due to allegations of child abuse and neglect, one-eighth are determined to be victims […]

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Special issue editors and conference organizers: Rajeev Darolia (University of Kentucky) and Colleen Heflin (Syracuse [...]

Five distinguished scholars will be inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) in 2021. The AAPSS inducts a new cohort of Fellows each year, […]

By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Driven by a sense of urgency, it is likely that every reader of this note is watching the sizable number of social scientists joining the […]

From birth to age 18, over one-third of U.S. children are investigated by child welfare systems due to allegations of child abuse and neglect, one-eighth are determined to be victims […]

L-R: 2020 Fellows Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Luis Small, Bruce Western Watch a video of the January 14 Fellows Induction Event here. On January 14, the AAPSS […]

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 [...]