Affiliated Centers

True innovation often happens when individual investigators come together to solve big questions. From single disciplinary efforts to multi-institutional undertakings, faculty and researchers bring enormous intellectual capital to bear in seeking answers through UChicago’s more than 140 institutes and centers. Here are a few that are affiliated with the Department and the Social Sciences Division.

• Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
• Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
• Center for East Asian Studies
• Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
• Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
• Center for International Social Science Research
• Center for Jewish Studies
• Center for Latin American Studies
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• Center for Spatial Data Science
• Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
• The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
• Chicago Center on Democracy
• The Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)
• Franke Institute for the Humanities
• Institute of Politics
• The Knowledge Lab
• Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
• Paulson Institute
• The Pearson Institute
• Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
• National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
• Population Research Center
• Social Sciences Research Center (SSRC)
• South Asia Language and Area Center
• Survey Lab