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The Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom earlier this year conferred the award of Academician in the Social […]

Stanford cognitive psychologist James L. McClelland and Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Shilin Spelke are the inaugural recipients of the National Academy […]

The latest winner of the William H. Riker Prize continues a tradition of mixing CASBS fellows with Riker Prize awardees.

Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social […]

Sense About Science, in conjunction with Nature and the Kohn Foundation, is seeking to award an individual who has promoted […]

A paper that shines light on the enigmatic spread of the sweet potato throughout the populated bits of the Pacific […]

Blogs dealing with political unrest, global violence and nuclear weapons were awarded as among the best in the English-speaking international studies community last Friday.

‘The Blunders of Our Governments,’ co-authored by the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Ivor Crewe, and fellow political scientist Anthony King, has been named the Practical Politics Book of the Year in Britain’s annual Paddy Power Political Book Awards.

Ira Katznelson’s examination of the racial politics surrounding the passage of much of the Depression era New Deal, has received […]

Christine Drennon, a Texas geographer whose youth and professional life have given her a front-row seat to see how access and equality play out in American cities, has received the annual Urban Affairs Association award for a scholar/activist.

It can be fun to poke at oddball research, but a U.S. award rewards researchers whose peculiar efforts pay off for society.

Nobel Prize-winning economist will give public lecture in May as part of prize ceremony.