Social Science

The School of Social Science has released an Occasional Paper, "Precarious Hope, Migrant Legalization, and the Limits of Affect Theory," by Ayşe Parla, Wolfensohn Family Member in the School and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sabanci...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science and emeritus editor of Dissent, builds upon his article "The Idea of Resistance," published by the magazine in 1960.

Resistance is a very old form of political action—much older than...

The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert reviews The Enigma of Reason by cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, former Member (1981–82) in the School of Social Science: If reason is designed to generate sound judgments, then it’s hard to...

Solidarity with comrades abroad is the oldest definition of left internationalism. We look for people who are fighting for equality, democracy, and freedom anywhere in the world, and we join their fight. Think of this as the foreign policy of the...

The Institute for Advanced Study, since its founding in 1930, has aspired to provide an unbiased environment for international scholars to pursue vital and groundbreaking work in the sciences and humanities. Its mission is to recruit the world’s...

Note: On Thursday, February 2, Dr. Amer Al Homssi arrived at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, after his return from the United Arab Emirates. Read more about his return: A Syrian Doctor Returns to Illinois.

According to the lawsuit filed by...

Bernard Harcourt, Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science, and Thomas Anthony Durkin have filed a lawsuit against President Trump's controversial executive order on immigration. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a pro bono client, Dr...

Americans have been using essentially the same rules to elect presidents since the beginning of the Republic. In the general election, each voter chooses one candidate; each state (with two current exceptions) awards all its Electoral College votes...

Lalaie Ameeriar, Member in the School of Social Science, is currently is in the middle of her yearlong stay at the Institute for Advanced Study.

“I’m working on the relationship between human rights, women’s rights, and humanitarianism through the...

The Institute for Advanced Study has received a seven-year $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Summer Program in Social Science, which will be led by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social...