Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Can Social Science Save Lives in a Pandemic?
David Canter considers the emerging social science perspectives for controlling COVID-19
In Search of Today’s Fannie Lou Hamers and Martin Luther Kings
Vincent Adejumo says that his scholarship in the discipline of black politics can explain why there aren’t any national African American leaders at this moment, filling roles like Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and others once did.
Father of Political Economy: Alberto Alesina, 1957-2020
Remembering the Italian economist who once wrote, “Racial animosity in the US makes redistribution to the poor, who are disproportionately black, unappealing to many voters. American political institutions limited the growth of a socialist party, and more generally limited the political power of the poor.”
Anthropology Webinars Explore Fieldwork, Public Health, & Coronavirus
In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, anthropologists around the world have been preparing to utilize knowledge gained from past pandemics to […]
COVID-19 UK: How Do Pandemics Come to an End?
In the midst of the present chaos, it is easy to forget that the world has had pandemics before and that they have come to an end. Can we learn anything from these experiences that might help us in dealing with COVID-19?
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Innovation systems that focus solely on exiting and generating investor profits are not designed to help nurture the best innovations for society.
The Need for a Social Identity Analysis of COVID-19: Introduction to ‘Together Apart’
As we write, at the start of May 2020, 4 million people have been infected with the COVID-19, over a quarter of […]
A Social Identity Analysis of COVID-19: Introduction to ‘Together Apart’
Plague was the concern of all of us…. Thus, for example, a feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from […]
