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
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin
Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956
The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided
How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart
by Alice Park
Harvard faculty experts discuss gun violence as a public-health matter
Four Harvard experts convened at the School of Public Health to debate public-health approaches to the topic of gun violence.
HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses
New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece
Bernard Bailyn's "The Barbarous Years" reviewed by Daniel K. Richter
The “mixed multitudes” of early Colonial America—and the Native Americans
High housing costs restrict labor mobility, threatening economic growth
Land-use restrictions lead to growing income disparities between states, Kennedy School researchers find.
Michael McElroy and Xi Lu on Natural Gas and Fracking
Natural gas, the economy, and America’s energy prospects
by Xi Lu
Jane Pickering director Harvard science, culture museums
Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums
Harvard expands Tozzer anthropology library
Consolidating the anthropology department by raising the roof and renovating the library