Fellows In the News

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 [...]

In his new book, Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, AAPSS Fellow Nicholas Lemann—dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of [...]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power discussed the current state of democracy around the world, the rise of China, and U.S. efforts to promote democracy in a public lecture that she [...]

Former AAPSS Board Chair Heidi Hartmann, the Academy’s 2014 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow, recently announced that she is stepping down as president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research [...]

Watch a video recap of the evening here. On October 3, the AAPSS welcomed five eminent scholars as Fellows of the Academy at its annual gala dinner at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, [...]