Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
FAS Overhaul Brings Deep Cuts to Social Sciences, Phillips Brooks House
After a final round of layoffs, University leaders say 165 staff jobs were eliminated across the division.
Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
The severe economic fallout, in context
Lizabeth Cohen Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years
Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Short-term increases in air pollution linked to several new diseases
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
Leadership without good judgment undermines government legitimacy
The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
by Jacob Sweet
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism
Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
Vincent Brown writes war and empire into the history of slavery
Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.