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.
Social Impact Bonds Can Harness Private Capital to Tackle Social Ills
Creative partnerships between government, non-profits, and investors may lead to more effective social services spending.
Harvard Business School Conference on U.S. Competitiveness
Firms are profitable, but the nation’s living standards aren't rising.
Harvard learning and teaching innovations
Highlights from the second University-wide Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching conference
Harvard Horizons doctoral students' ideas that may reshape their disciplines
A new program recognizes eight doctoral students whose ideas, innovations, and insights could change their fields.
Harvard faculty chosen Radcliffe Institute fellows
Fifteen Harvard faculty members chosen.
Harvard faculty national academy of sciences 2013
Eight professors honored
Harvard faculty expertise on terrorism
Faculty expertise on terrorist behavior, from the magazine's archives
John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.