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A New Book on Tamil Cinema Offers Anthropological Answers to the Question, What...

Author and UChicago professor Constantine V.

2023-24 CISSR Faculty Research Grants Announced

The Center for International Social Science Research has announced its 2023-2024 Faculty Research Fellowship Grants.

New Research Finds Nearly 80 Million Latin Americans Live Under Criminal Govern...

Findings suggest a correlation between gang governance and a positive perception of state governance. By Sarah Steimer

Ethnography and Journalism: Humanizing Revolution Through Interviews

PhD Student Alex Shams combines his journalism background and ethnographic research skills to offer a view of what’s happening on the ground in

Students who study abroad are more civically engaged

This story was originally published by UChicago News.

Big Brains Ep. 105: Is the US headed toward another civil war? with Prof. Willi...

This episode was originally published by the UChicago News Big Brains Podcast.

UChicago Economics Center Partners with Casa Central to Support Chicago Familie...

The University of Chicago’s Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) has selected Casa Central as its community partner in an ambitious

New Study Explores the Effects of Neurotoxic Air Pollution in Early Life on Cog...

The study — one of the first of its kind — focuses on the intersection of neighborhood effects research and environmental health epidemiology.

Adom Getachew Is Energized by Conversation at UChicago

She shares substantive research interests with her colleagues, and their varying approaches and disciplines deepen the work.

New Research Points to the Amygdala as a Contributor to Motivational Biases in ...

A study in Cerebral Cortex explores how individuals can be motivated to biased perceptions. By Sarah Steimer