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The Academy’s 2016 annual gala dinner was held on the evening of May 12, at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

The AAPSS and the Annie E. Casey Foundation are pleased to be co-sponsoring a forum on family policy and child well-being featuring some of the nation's leading experts.

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE was founded in Philadelphia on December 14, 1889. Twenty-two people, including members of the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, [...]

Kenneth Prewitt has succeeded Douglas Massey as president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Prewitt, a former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and past president of the [...]

Underlying many of our nation’s major historical moments is a commitment to equal opportunity for all individuals. Accessibility to opportunity ought not to have anything to do with race, [...]

Eleven research papers published in the September ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Volume 655) examine state policy initiatives such as financing for student [...]

The Amermass-incarceration-briefing.480.309.sican Academy of Political and Social Science and The Scholars Strategy Network, in cooperation with the Honorable Robert C. "Bobby" Scott and the [...]

The American Academy of Political and Social Science has inducted six eminent scholars as 2014 Fellows of the Academy.

On January 30, 2014, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, held a forum to explore the ideas advanced in the November 2013 volume of [...]

AAPSS Fellow Sheldon Danziger is the special editor of the most recent ANNALS volume, "The Effects of the Great Recession."