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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 is meant, at least in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]