James S. Jackson, the 2012 AAPSS W.E.B DuBois Fellow and the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan, died on September 1 following a [...]
AAPSS Fellow Raj Chetty–working with a group of researchers from Opportunity Insights, a nonpartisan research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity that he [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reduced human impact on the planet in 2020, providing a unique opportunity to observe the influence of humans on the environment and to consider a number of [...]
Oliver Williamson, the 2000 AAPSS Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow and 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, died on May 21 of complications from pneumonia. He was 87. [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages through a presidential election year, the one thing that is certain is uncertainty. Many experts predict that virus caseloads will rise and fall in the US in waves [...]
In a new book, Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, AAPSS Fellow Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of [...]
In a March 30 conversation published on the Carnegie Mellon University website, criminologist and Academy Fellow Daniel Nagin discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the criminal justice [...]
AAPSS Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson is featured in a new HBO documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News.” Directed by Andrew Rossi and executive produced by CNN’s Brian [...]
The AAPSS Board has elected five distinguished scholars–Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Small, and Bruce Western–to be inducted as Fellows of the Academy. With the [...]
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently announced that AAPSS Fellow Robert Greenstein, the organization’s founder and president, will step down on December 31, 2020, after [...]
