Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Advice for Trump: Best International Relations Blog Post of 2016
Elizabeth N. Saunders, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, wrote the following post which appeared The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on November 9, 2016. In this year’s Duckies awards, officially known as the International Studies Association’s Online Media Caucus awards, Saunders’ post was named best individual blog post of 2016.
Princeton Economist Alan Krueger to Receive Moynihan Prize
The American Academy of Political and Social Science selected economist and Princeton economist Alan Krueger as the winner of the 2017 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.
Sydney’s ‘Progress in Political Economy’ Named Best IR Blog
One of the highlights of the International Studies Association’s annual conference – assuming you weren’t boycotting the whole affair – was the annual Duckies Awards, which recognize public-facing work in the field.
William Julius Wilson to Receive 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award
SAGE Publishing and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University will present sociologist William Julius Wilson, a leader for a half century in the study of race and inequality in the United States, the 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award.
Recalling a Forgotten Anthropologist (and Victim) of Structural Racism
This Black History Month, remember the trailblazing work of an American anthropologist, Allison Davis, who both studied and was a victim of the nation’s entrenched racism.
Early Career Paper Authors Sought for NIH Honor
Ten years ago, the National Institute for Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) started an annual event to commemorate […]
Sociology’s (Selective) Diversity
Our Robert Dingwall reflects on Tinder’s in-house sociologist and on the just-announced New Year’s Honours list to question just how diverse are current understandings of diversity.
AAPSS Names 2017 Fellows
A sociologist who has helped understand the complex issues of race in the United States, a political scientist who heads the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a psychologist whose work explains how we as human respond to threat are among the new class of fellows for the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
