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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. [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages through a presidential election year, the one thing that is certain is uncertainty. Many experts predict that virus caseloads will rise and fall in the US in waves [...]

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 [...]

In a new book, Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, AAPSS Fellow Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of [...]

In a March 30 conversation published on the Carnegie Mellon University website, criminologist and Academy Fellow Daniel Nagin discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the criminal justice [...]

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has announced that it will award the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to economist William Nordhaus. The Moynihan Prize is awarded [...]

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. With the [...]