The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) is pleased to announce that Sheldon Danziger will be its next president. He will take over as the fourteenth president of the Academy on September 1, 2025, succeeding Marta Tienda, who has led the organization since 2021.| AAPSS
President’s Corner: Social Science (and the AAPSS) in Uncharted Waters| www.aapss.org
Executive Director’s Corner: I Am a Reluctant Convert to Fretting Over Our Democracy| www.aapss.org
Knowledge that informs society.| www.aapss.org
Fellows’ Corner| www.aapss.org
Editor’s Note: Marta Tienda’s time as president of the AAPSS will conclude this summer, making this her final President’s Corner essay. The AAPSS board and staff thank her for her service to the Academy and wish her the best in her future endeavors. In July 2021, when I began what was originally a three-year term …| AAPSS
Dietram A. Scheufele, our 2024 Harold Lasswell Fellow, adds to our series of special Fellows’ Corner essays on the “State of the Nation.” This series expands on our 2024 fellows’ induction remarks in response to the following prompt: “Professionally, how would you respond to claims that the American experiment is in decline?”| AAPSS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Tom Kecskemethy, Executive DirectorThe American Academy of Political and Social Sciencethomask@upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA (April 15, 2025) — The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will welcome six scholars as 2025 fellows this fall. The AAPSS selects a small group of scholars and public intellectuals as fellows each year, recognizing their …| AAPSS
This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by demographer and sociologist Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow. If you are an AAPSS Fellow and would like to contribute to this column in future editions of the Dispatch, please contact Jessica Erfer. The Disbanding of Census Advisory Committees: Likely Consequences In recent decades, the U.S. …| AAPSS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tom Kecskemethy, Executive Director The American Academy of Political and Social Science thomask@upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA (March 19, 2025) — The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will award the 2025 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to historian Timothy Snyder of Yale University and the University of Toronto. Snyder, a prolific …| AAPSS
Late last November, the AAPSS welcomed eight new fellows to the Academy and invited each of them to speak to whether, given the extraordinary political circumstances we currently face in the United States, “the American experiment is in decline.” We’ve asked each of them to write brief essays that expand upon the points that they …| AAPSS
Last month, the AAPSS honored Bryan Stevenson, winner of the 2024 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize. Stevenson delivered the 2024 Moynihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy in Washington, DC, at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. The event was co-sponsored by Sage Publishing. Stevenson was introduced by Carol Anderson, the AAPSS’s 2021 W.E.B. …| AAPSS
This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by sociologist and demographer Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow. If you are an AAPSS Fellow and would like to contribute to this column in future editions of the Dispatch, please contact Jessica Erfer. The Growing Importance of Immigration Many hot-button issues face U.S. voters as they …| AAPSS
Earlier this month, contributors to an upcoming volume of The ANNALS met at the Annenberg Public Policy Center to present their draft papers, provide feedback to fellow contributors, and discuss the volume as a whole. Scholars and writers from around the country—and even from abroad—came together on the University of Pennsylvania campus to collaborate on …| AAPSS
This month, the Dispatch will introduce a new regular feature, the “Fellows’ Corner.” In addition to posts from our president and executive director, the AAPSS will periodically publish pieces by our fellows reflecting on their work, their inductions, and more. This first essay comes from Jennifer Lee, our 2023 Samuel A. Stouffer Fellow.| AAPSS