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AAPSS Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson is featured in a new HBO documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News.” Directed by Andrew Rossi and executive produced by CNN’s Brian [...]

The AAPSS Board has elected five distinguished scholars–Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Small, and Bruce Western–to be inducted as Fellows of the Academy at a [...]

The Impact Agenda: Observations, An Anecdote, Postscripts What is the “impact agenda” for universities, and especially for the social sciences?  “Impact” signifies taking steps beyond our current [...]

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently announced that AAPSS Fellow Robert Greenstein, the organization’s founder and president, will step down on December 31, 2020, after [...]

The National Academy of Sciences announced today that it will present its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, to AAPSS Fellow and former AAPSS president Kathleen Hall Jamieson at an [...]

AAPSS Fellow Manuel Castells was recently appointed Minister of Universities by new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Castells will oversee Spain’s 50 public universities, directing policy [...]

In a new book, Martha Minow, the AAPSS 2017 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, asks what forgiveness can achieve in this age of resentment. When Should Law Forgive? explores the complicated intersection [...]

The Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) awards the prestigious A.SK Social Science Award every two years to recognize researchers who make outstanding contributions to social and political reform. [...]

Paul Volcker, the 2012 recipient of the AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, died on December 9, 2019, at the age of 92. Volcker helped to shape American economic policy in public service for [...]

Harvard sociologist and AAPSS Fellow Orlando Patterson looks closely at Jamaica, his native land, in his new book, The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. Drawing on [...]