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The ANNALS has been bringing science to bear on topics of particular social and political concern for 133 years now, and it’s always enlightening to dive into its archives to […]

By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President (Editor’s Note: The piece was written on June 2nd, 2022, prior to the Senate considering any bipartisan gun control legislation) I write from Austin, days […]

Recently, I was discussing the benefits of interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary society with a senior scholar who used to serve on our board of directors. Mulling over ideas for events [...]

The Academy will induct seven extraordinarily accomplished scholars as its 2022 cohort of Fellows at an event to be held in Philadelphia later this year. The AAPSS inducts a new […]

By Marta Tienda On April 26, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau delivered results of the Census 2020 to the president that are to be used for apportioning seats in the […]

Amy Gutmann, the 2002 AAPSS W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, was confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to Germany on February 8 by a vote of 54-42. She had been nominated to […]

Five distinguished scholars–Carol Anderson, a diplomatic historian whose work focuses on public policy; Jacob Hacker, a political scientist whose specialty is American social policy; Rucker [...]

Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox, the AAPSS 2003 Harold Lasswell Fellow, passed away on January 18 at the age of 97. He was an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College […]

Sociologist Sara McLanahan, the 2005 AAPSS James S. Coleman Fellow, passed away on December 31, 2021. Her ground-breaking research focused on family structure and its effects on social inequality [...]

At the end of a calendar year, it’s almost impossible to avoid looking back and thinking forward, so I won’t resist the temptation here. Recently, we spent time reading and […]