Fellows In the News

On May 17, 2018, Dr. John Holdren gave the 2018 Daniel Patrick Moyihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC, to an audience of about [...]

Academy Fellow Roger Wilkins, whose decades long career traversed public service and academia, passed away on March 26, 2017, at the age of 85. Wilkins began his career in public service during [...]

Fellow Stephen Fienberg, University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Melon University (CMU), passed away in Pittsburgh on December 14, 2016 at the age of 74 after a battle [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29, 2016 – The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, will welcome five distinguished scholars as Fellows of [...]

“They’ve Managed to Bridge—Even Transcend—Partisan Divides” The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) is pleased to announce social policy experts Ron Haskins and Isabel [...]

The AAPSS community is saddened by the passing of AAPSS Fellow Elizabeth Garrett, who died at her home in New York City on Sunday from colon cancer. Professor Garrett was the first female [...]

The Academy’s 2016 annual gala dinner was held on the evening of May 12, at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed learned societies, has elected five distinguished scholars and practitioners as 2016 [...]

Kenneth Prewitt has succeeded Douglas Massey as president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Prewitt, a former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and past president of the [...]

On January 30, 2014, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, held a forum to explore the ideas advanced in the November 2013 volume of [...]