Social Science

Kelefa Sanneh writes of former Member Joseph Carens's defense of a simple proposition––"immigrants belong"––in an untangling of the immigration debate in the New Yorker:

Carens makes a startling assertion toward the end of his book [The Ethics of...

People who tell small, self-serving lies are likely to progress to bigger falsehoods, and over time, the brain appears to adapt to the dishonesty, according to a new study authored by Dan Ariely, Visitor (2006–07) and Member (2005–06) in the School...

Economists have long struggled to explain why a growing proportion of men in the prime of their lives are not employed or looking for work. A working paper by Alan Krueger, Member (2007–08) in the School of Social Science, has found that nearly half...

The University of Wisconsin Law School has awarded its 2016 Association for Women Lawyer's Award for Mentoring Excellence to Elizabeth Mertz, Visitor in the School of Social Science.

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The American Historical Association has awarded the 2016 George Louis Beer Prize to Vanessa Ogle, Member (2013–14) in the School of Social Science, for her book The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950 (Harvard University Press, 2015), which she...

“The enduring vitality of the reactionary spirit even in the absence of a revolutionary political program,” writes Mark Lilla (Member, Social Science, 1997–98), arises from the feeling that “to live a modern life anywhere in the world today, subject...

On Friday, October 14, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a pair of public lectures—one on the history of night in the Greek world and the other on memory projects about World War II and the Cold War. Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Director...

Kristin Surak, former Member (2015–16) in the School of Social Science, reviews The Cosmopolities: The Coming of the Global Citizen in the London Review of Books. Read more from the London Review of Books.

Ann McGrath, Member (2013-14) in the School of Social Science, has received two awards for her book, Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), a piece she worked on during her...

For Professor Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, the burkini embodies the achievement of a secular, integrated society. The women who wear burkinis, she said, cannot be called oppressed. They are not the women...