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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (April 4, 2023) – The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, will welcome six scholars as [...]

by Marta Tienda Demography was front-page news in January, as several media outlets reported that China’s population had begun to shrink. This development was no surprise to demographers who have [...]

Academy Fellow Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, will be awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement by the Pennsylvania Society at their annual December dinner. [...]

The Academy is pleased to announce that former ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.  She will […]

Lawrence D. Bobo, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the department of African American Studies at Harvard University, was recently named Harvard’s Dean of […]

AAPSS Fellow Carol Dweck of Stanford University has been awarded the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award in recognition of her pioneering career in the field of social psychology. Dweck is most known […]

Academy Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has published a comprehensive examination of Russian influence in the 2016 [...]