AAPSS In the News

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 [...]

As the generally devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic settle upon us, it is both astonishing to think of what our nation, and the world, has already endured and bewildering to consider [...]

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has announced that it will award the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to economist William Nordhaus. The Moynihan Prize is awarded [...]

The AAPSS Board has elected five distinguished scholars–Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Small, and Bruce Western–to be inducted as Fellows of the Academy. With the [...]

The Impact Agenda: Observations, An Anecdote, Postscripts What is the “impact agenda” for universities, and especially for the social sciences?  “Impact” signifies taking steps beyond our current [...]

Paul Volcker, the 2012 recipient of the AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, died on December 9, 2019, at the age of 92. Volcker helped to shape American economic policy in public service for [...]

How effective is America’s social safety net? How should we reform entitlement programs so that they’re more effective and fiscally viable? The AAPSS recently invited experts to contribute to a [...]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power discussed the current state of democracy around the world, the rise of China, and U.S. efforts to promote democracy in a public lecture that she [...]