Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Robert Coles Was Most at Home on the Playground
A colleague remembers the late Harvard professor and child psychiatrist, who died this month.
by Alex Harris
“Rebellious Lawyering” author Gerald López: a profile
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
Unequal Distribution of Incomes
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
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.
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
Chetty is a global leader in research on inequality and social mobility.
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.