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Spring 2019 Dialogo: Democracy and Politics in the United States
The social sciences are the means by which we come to understand the world in which we live. Among many avenues of research, division faculty and stud...
November 21, 2019
New Chair and Four New Members announced for SSD Council
The University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Zachary Egan, AM’96, as chair of the Division of the Social Sciences Cou...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Alumni Comparative Human Development
Margaret Beale Spencer, PhD’76, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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November 21, 2019
Announcements Alumni Psychology
Brent Staples AM’76 PhD’82 wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing
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November 21, 2019
Announcements Student Alumni All Departments
A research project about Detroit helped Angela Li launch a career in spatial data science
Economics major turned spatial data scientist Even when students think they know exactly where their career is heading, sometimes a project or a pr...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Alumni Student All Departments
Winter 2019 Dialogo: International Social Sciences
Division faculty and students have long been the vanguard for international social sciences research. From the founding of the Committee on Internatio...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Alumni Student Staff Sociology
April 4 Event will revisit Robert Park and Ernest Burgess’s The City
First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Join us for this panel discussion on th...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Student Alumni Psychology
Exploring children’s understanding of rules – and when they can be broken
Although parents might sometimes feel otherwise, children are inherently rule followers. Early in life, simple rules like “don’t touch the stove” prov...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Student Alumni All Departments
Fall 2018 Dialogo: Qualitative Research Offers Insights on Political and Social Systems
Letter from the Dean As you may have noted, recent issues of Dialogo each explore a broad theme that spans the social sciences. In Fall 2017, we ex...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Alumni Economics
Gifts of the papers of George Stigler and Harry G. Johnson will expand understanding of economics at Chicago
The University of Chicago is world renowned for the “Chicago School of Economics” and the 30 Nobel laureates in economic sciences who have been UChica...
November 21, 2019