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 […]
King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner
‘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.
Katznelson’s New Deal History Wins Bancroft Prize
Ira Katznelson’s examination of the racial politics surrounding the passage of much of the Depression era New Deal, has received a Bancroft […]
Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon
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.
Golden Goose Awards: Honk If You Support Basic Research
It can be fun to poke at oddball research, but a U.S. award rewards researchers whose peculiar efforts pay off for society.
Joseph Stiglitz Receives 2014 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
Nobel Prize-winning economist will give public lecture in May as part of prize ceremony.
‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’
A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.
Ravitch Wins Moynihan Prize
Notables in the world of political and social sciences were on hand June 2 when the American Academy of Political and Social […]
