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3 SSD Faculty Receive Named, Distinguished Professorships
This article highlight is adapted from UChicago News. Read the full story here. Eighteen University of Chicago faculty members have received distin...
January 4, 2024Large-scale data study offers insight into cross-cultural thinking and communication
Researchers used machine learning to answer core linguistic anthropology questions about language and thought across cultures. By Sarah Steimer ...
December 18, 2023Language in Culture, the posthumously published book from Michael Silverstein, unifies a career’s worth of linguistic anthropology research
Three UChicago anthropology professors helped bring Silverstein’s opus to fruition after his death, successfully conveying in the text his lively lect...
December 21, 2023New postdoc program offers industry experience
The collaboration between SSD and Morningstar launched this year, providing a look at the overlap between academic and industry research. By Sarah ...
November 27, 2023A new survey asks Chicago residents to weigh in on neighborhood maps
“It’s one way to support neighborhood life — and thus support living local.” By Sarah Steimer In the late 1920s, two University of Chicago s...
November 17, 2023Deepening our understanding of deafness, technology, and ‘normalization’
Michele Friedner’s latest book, which received the 2023 Rachel Carson prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, is hailed as “nuanced ...
January 8, 2024Politics play a role in the efficacy of international shaming for improving human rights
A new book explores why governments shame others, when it works, and why it can backfire. By Sarah Steimer The decision by the international com...
November 2, 2023Education and Resilience in Kyiv
Under siege, the Kyiv School of Economics has managed to expand, track Russia’s war debt, and build bomb shelters for schoolchildren. Two University o...
January 8, 2024Faculty Sociology Announcements
Exploring the role of global imperialism in modern policing
“The assumption is that there are certain people who are fundamentally savage and inferior and worthy of violence.” By Sarah Steimer The culture...
October 25, 2023Rohit and Harvanit Kumar Provide Gift to Support Postdocs Researching Childhood Development
By Sarah Steimer The University of Chicago’s Committee on Education has announced that Rohit and Harvanit Kumar have generously provided a financia...
November 22, 2023