Social Science

What is it about women’s attire that over and over in history has attracted controversy and impelled societies to legislate or regulate women’s choices? 

 Dan Ariely, Member and Visitor in the School of Social Science, explores strategies for boosting turnout on Election Day. 

Professor Emeritus Michael Walzer has been elected to the British Academy as a Corresponding Fellow. The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,300 leading academics in the humanities and social sciences.

Societies have developed various ways of dealing with crime and more generally violations of their laws. Punishment is a common, albeit neither universal nor systematic, response that has long received much attention from moral philosophers and...

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University in recognition of her scholarly contributions to the understanding of gender history.

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, discusses ethnography and theory with Harry Kreisler, host of the Conversations with History series at UC Berkeley. View the talk at https://youtu.be/pNsG5wDWmhw.

Adriana Petryna, Member (2003–04) and Visitor (2006) in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the Wellcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Petryna, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of...

Stanislas Leibler, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Other elected Members and Visitors include Ian Agol (2015–16), Vladimir Drinfeld (1990, 1997, 1998), Wayne Hu (1995–2000), Igor...

Deva Woodly, Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School, will a give a public lecture, “An Antidote to the Politics of Despair: Enabling Conceptions of Justice and the Democratic Necessity of Insurgency,” on Friday, May 13 which will take...