Lawrence D. Bobo, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the department of African American Studies at Harvard University, was recently named Harvard’s Dean of Social [...]
AAPSS Fellow Carol Dweck of Stanford University has been awarded the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award in recognition of her pioneering career in the field of social psychology. Dweck is most known for her [...]
Academy Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has published a comprehensive examination of Russian influence in the 2016 [...]
On September 13, 2018, Academy Fellow Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University, and colleagues Anthony Greenwald of Washington University and Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, were awarded [...]
Fellow Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania is the coauthor of a study that finds that male spouses are just as likely to care for their wives during illness as wives are to care [...]
On July 19, the Academy joined the Brookings Institution for an event marking the publication of the July 2018 volume of THE ANNALS, Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a [...]
Board member Arthur Lupia has been selected to head the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation. This directorate supports research in [...]
The Academy’s 2018 annual Gala Dinner was held on May 17, at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC. At the dinner, the Academy inducted five new fellows: Maria Cancian of the University [...]
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) is seeking a part-time digital coordinator to assist staff in managing digital projects as well as occasional support for outreach [...]
