Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty
A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty
Harvard MOOC online learning lessons from edX
Harvard and MIT researchers mine masses of data about online learning—and begin to address applications to campus classrooms.
Harvard professors, journalist Nate Cohn discuss data and voting rights
Why good data are essential to understanding the Voting Rights Act
Beckert's “Empire of Cotton” Wins a Bancroft Prize in History
His Empire of Cotton: A Global History puts slavery in an international context.
Harvard’s Eric Maskin and Michael Kremer look at globalization and inequality
Modeling how globalization leaves the least-skilled workers behind
Teaching with technology, for a new generation
From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology
Historian Ronald Suny Discusses Armenian Genocide at Harvard's Davis Center
On the centenary, historian Ronald G. Suny discusses the causes of the twentieth century’s first genocide.
Crisis of American neoliberal capitalism
A critique of the neoliberal economy
Harvard's African and African American art gallery opens
Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.
Small Companies Have an Innovation Edge, except perhaps in the energy space
Small companies innovate better, but in the energy field, large firms may lead.