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Historian Richard Payne to receive 2018 World Award for Book of the Year
The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has awarded its 2018 World Award for Book of the Year to historian Richard Payne for A State of M...
November 21, 2019
History’s Mauricio Tenorio receives a Humboldt Research Award
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded history professor Mauricio Tenorio its prestigious Research Award. Mauricio Tenorio is the Samuel...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Anthropology Psychology
Social Sciences faculty receive named professorships
John D. Kelly, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and Howard Nusbaum, Professor in the Department of Psychology, have been appointed to name...
November 21, 2019
Social Sciences faculty inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
On Saturday, October 7, 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted 228 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists, an...
November 21, 2019
Historian Alain Bresson awarded AHA James Henry Breasted Prize
Professor Alain Bresson has been awarded the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize for his book, The Making of the Ancient Gree...
October 16, 2023
Announcements Faculty Sociology
Alumnus and activist Rami Nashashibi wins MacArthur grant
By Andrew Bauld and Susan Keaton | UChicago News Chicago social justice activist Rami Nashashibi, AM’98, PhD’11, was announced on Oct. 11 as one of...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Political Science
Morton A. Kaplan, renowned political scientist, international relations scholar (1921–2017)
Morton A. Kaplan, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science and former chair of the Committee on International Relations, passed a...
November 21, 2019
Mark Bradley, Professor in the Department of History appointed Deputy Dean of Social Sciences
Mark Bradley, the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History, has been appointed to the role of deputy dean fo...
November 21, 2019
Announcements Faculty Psychology
Psychology’s Daniel Yurovsky receives McDonnell Foundation award for child language research
The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded psychology professor Daniel Yurovsky a multi-year grant through its 21st Century Science Initiative to s...
November 21, 2019
Ada Palmer, Assistant Professor of History, wins John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Ada Palmer, Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History, was presented the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Helsinki, Finland on...
November 21, 2019