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Political Science Faculty Alumni Announcements
American Democracy Is Under Threat, But There is Hope
Experts and elected officials came together for “Democracy and Distrust: Overcoming threats to the 2024 election,” an event that grappled with violenc...
September 28, 2023
Faculty Economics History Psychology Political Science Announcements
SSD Welcomes New Faculty for the 2023-24 Academic Year
Christina Brown Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Christina Brown is a development economist studying labor and ...
September 21, 2023
Faculty Political Science Announcements
September 26 Event to Address Threats to American Democracy
With presidential campaigns and candidate debates underway, the 2024 elections are coming into focus. But given the continuing shadow of the Janua...
September 10, 2023
Phonics vs. whole word: The science of reading, with Adrian Johns (Big Brains Ep. 117)
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their page here. The complicated history of how we read—and ways it spark...
September 20, 2023
Announcements Faculty Anthropology
An archaeologist talks trash
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. Author, UChicago Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman reframes hist...
August 22, 2023
UCHICAGO TO CONVENE 6TH SCIENCE OF PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE CONFERENCE (2019)
PUBLISHED ON MAR 25, 2019 The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce the sixth Science of Philanthropy Initiative (AFE20...
August 15, 2023
KAPLAN RECEIVES 2019 CENTRAL BANKING AWARD (2019)
PUBLISHED ON JAN 29, 2019 Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Professor Greg Kaplan has received the 2019 Economics in Central Banking Award...
August 15, 2023
History’s Presence
In the August 17 issue of the Review, the political theorist Adom Getachew writes about Howard French’s Born in Blackness, a radical reexamination of ...
August 22, 2023
POSTPONED: MOGSTAD TO SPEAK AT HARPER LECTURE SERIES MARCH 19 (2020)
PUBLISHED ON FEB 20, 2020 Chicago Harper Lecture: Inequality in the Labor Market: Causes, Consequences, and Public Policy THIS EVENT HAS BEEN PO...
August 9, 2023
GEORGE S. TOLLEY, PIONEER IN ENVIRONMENTAL, URBAN, AND ENERGY ECONOMICS, 1925-2021 (2021)
PUBLISHED ON SEP 7, 2021 George S. Tolley, pioneer in environmental, urban, and energy economics, 1925-2021 By Sarah Steimer George S. Tolley...
August 9, 2023