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 […]
Robert Jervis, the 2012 AAPSS Robert Dahl Fellow and a towering figure field of international relations, died on December 9 at the age of 81. Jervis had been a member […]
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the 2003 AAPSS Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow who described and studied the state of focused contentment he called “flow,” died on Oct. 20 at the age of 87. […]
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. At the time, 19 percent of all U.S. […]
David Card, the AAPSS 2013 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow whose work was praised for “empirical contributions to labor economics” by the Nobel Prize Committee in its press release, has been […]
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will award the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. The Moynihan Prize is awarded [...]
The Academy recently partnered with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for a pair of webinars focusing on on supporting family income and [...]
By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Calls for the implementation of research echo across higher education, sometimes labeled research impact or “knowledge-to-action” (the term used in this [...]
When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law in March 2021, observers described it as “the second war on poverty,” almost matching in scope and ambition the […]
