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Rebecca Blank, who led the University of Wisconsin-Madison as chancellor for nearly a decade, died February 18 after a seven-month battle with cancer. Remembrances of Dr. Blank and eulogies that [...]

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 [...]

Marta Tienda’s reflection about the teaching force in this edition of the Dispatch inspired us to think about how and when The ANNALS has attended to issues of K-16 education […]

By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President Unlike in the past two years, when mask mandates and the perils of in-person instruction dominated national and local headlines, back-to-school news this fall has [...]

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 […]