Social Science

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been selected to serve on the Obama Presidency Oral History Advisory Board, composed of leading presidential historians, including Robert Dallek and Douglas Brinkley...

In the London Review of Books, Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, examines the recent European elections from a French perspective, arguing that Emmanuel Macron’s representation of the democratic challenge...

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...