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.
Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
The people in whom we confide often are not family and friends
Barbers, bartenders, and beauticians are as privy to our secrets as are family and friends.
Harvard Kennedy School professor explores the emotional toll of losing elections
A Kennedy School working paper shows that losing elections can take a big toll on partisan voters’ happiness.
Harvard arts and sciences enrollment, faculty growth
Highlights from Dean Michael D. Smith’s annual report
Deborah Anker, Harvard Law Professor, on immigration law
A specialist on immigration at Harvard Law School
Analytics has the power to transform government
Harnessing civic data makes governments more responsive to citizens.
Max Bazerman on making organizations act ethically
Max Bazerman wants leaders to take notice of ethical challenges.
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
John Muir
A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.