Fellows In the News

Rebecca Blank, who led the University of Wisconsin-Madison as chancellor for nearly a decade, died February 18 after a seven-month battle with cancer. Remembrances of Dr. Blank and eulogies that [...]

The Academy will induct seven extraordinarily accomplished scholars as its 2022 cohort of Fellows at an event to be held in Philadelphia later this year. The AAPSS inducts a new […]

Amy Gutmann, the 2002 AAPSS W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, was confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to Germany on February 8 by a vote of 54-42. She had been nominated to […]

Five distinguished scholars–Carol Anderson, a diplomatic historian whose work focuses on public policy; Jacob Hacker, a political scientist whose specialty is American social policy; Rucker [...]

Prominent British statistician Sir David Cox, the AAPSS 2003 Harold Lasswell Fellow, passed away on January 18 at the age of 97. He was an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College […]

Sociologist Sara McLanahan, the 2005 AAPSS James S. Coleman Fellow, passed away on December 31, 2021. Her ground-breaking research focused on family structure and its effects on social inequality [...]

Robert Jervis, the 2012 AAPSS Robert Dahl Fellow and a towering figure field of international relations, died on December 9 at the age of 81. Jervis had been a member […]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the 2003 AAPSS Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow who described and studied the state of focused contentment he called “flow,” died on Oct. 20 at the age of 87. […]

David Card, the AAPSS 2013 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow whose work was praised for “empirical contributions to labor economics” by the Nobel Prize Committee in its press release, has been […]

Ronald Inglehart, the AAPSS 2006 Samuel A. Stouffer Fellow, died on May 8 at the age of 86, after a long illness. Inglehart was the Lowenstein Professor of Political Science […]