Social Science

Michael G. Hanchard, Member (2014–15) in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the 2019 Ralph J. Bunche Award for The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Conferred by the American...

"Since the Tiananmen massacre, activists, scholars, and regular citizens have launched a war against forgetting. Many Tiananmen veterans, both inside and outside China, including Liu Xiaobo, the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died a political...

The New Yorker has featured Democracy and Truth, by Sophia Rosenfeld, Member (2014–15) in the School of Social Science, among its "Briefly Noted" book reviews for the week of May 27.

The New Yorker calls Rosenfeld's book "incisive," writing:

"Rosenfe...

Alondra Nelson, incoming Professor and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science, joins Joshua Rothman for an episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss reparations—how they would work, and who would be eligible.

Nelson speaks with...

"As an anthropologist, he is trained to look for and respect differences, both between cultures and individuals. As a medical doctor, he knows what all human bodies have in common and the mortality that we ultimately face. And as a philosopher, he...

“Tiananmen remains the most sensitive and taboo subject in China. The post-Tiananmen regime has constructed a narrative portraying the Tiananmen Movement as a Western conspiracy to weaken and divide China. Massive efforts were devoted to inscribe...

Listen to the BBC Radio 3 broadcast by Director's Visitor (2018) Sally Marlow, who interviews IAS Director Robbert Dijkgraaf, and Professors Joan Wallach Scott, Freeman J. Dyson, Nima Arkani-Hamed, and Myles W. Jackson.

Alondra Nelson, an acclaimed sociologist, author, and researcher who explores questions in science, technology, and social inequality, has been appointed Professor and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for...

On Tuesday, April 23, Labyrinth Books will host a discussion of Troublemakers: A Philosophy of Puer Robustus (Polity Press, forthcoming), a new book by Dieter Thomä, Member in the School of Social Science.

Thomä, whose book examines the crucial but...

On Friday, April 26, a workshop in honor of pioneering historian Natalie Zemon Davis’s 90th birthday featured talks by Professors Francesca Trivellato and Joan Wallach Scott; Trustee Lorraine Daston; and honoree Natalie Zemon Davis, past Member...