Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated by Female MDs?
The “glass ceiling” in the operating room
by Oset Babür
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
by Brandon J. Dixon
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
Chetty is a global leader in research on inequality and social mobility.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Brain in the Basement
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
by Jonathan Shaw
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
by Courtney Humphries
Writing Crime into Race
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
by Lydialyle Gibson
He Has Made the World a Safer Place
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
by Jonathan Shaw
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Trimming Truancy
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
by Jonathan Shaw