Fellows In the News

Alice Rivlin, an Academy Fellow since 2001 and first recipient of the AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in 2008, passed away on May 14, 2019, at the age of 88. Dr. Rivlin, an economist, was a [...]

AAPSS Fellow Howard Gardner, a professor in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, is widely known for his theory of multiple intelligences. Since 2012, however, Gardner has been conducting a [...]

A new longitudinal study, coauthored by AAPSS Fellow Daniel Nagin and published in JAMA Pediatrics, assessed 920 boys from low-income families to identify which behaviors in kindergarten may be [...]

AAPSS Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s latest book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know, was awarded the 2018 R. R. [...]

The Academy mourns the loss of Alan B. Kreuger, 58, who died on March 16, 2019. A Fellow of the Academy since 2004, Kreuger was awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in 2017. The prize is [...]

In 2015, economists Alan Krueger of Princeton University and Lawrence Katz of Harvard University published an influential survey of the so-called gig economy. In it, they concluded that the [...]

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 [...]