Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
UPDATE: Two Indian social scientists are among 10 people charged with murder in an Indian state wracked by an ongoing insurgency by Maoist rebels that the academics were actively studying. Almost 200 Indian sociologists are protesting the arrest.
Cold weather getting you down? Why not curl up by the fire with a good book? Betsy Leondar-Wright : Missing Class: How […]
Social media allows scholars to discuss and debate current affairs like never before, but on a very public stage. Brent E. Sasley and Mira Sucharov examine and assess one academic’s tweets on the Israel-Gaza crisis and the questions raised over his style and approach.
For more than a decade a group of intellectual freedom fighters survived at Egyptian universities only to see their movement falter just when political freedoms expanded
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.
As reported in The New York Times, President Barack Obama devoted special attention to climate-change goals in his second Inaugural Address on […]
Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.