The ANNALS
Our bimonthly journal of research| AAPSS
On October 6–7, the AAPSS hosted an authors’ conference in partnership with the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM). Contributors to a forthcoming volume of The ANNALS, tentatively titled Educating Boys: Bridging Gaps, Building Futures, gathered in Philadelphia to present draft papers to each other and to guest editors Richard V. Reeves, Pedro Noguera, and Ioakim Boutakidis.| AAPSS
In 2013, the AAPSS began hosting an annual public lecture given by that year’s winner on a topic of their choosing. Delivered in Washington, DC, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy is an opportunity for some of the nation’s most influential public intellectuals to speak out about the world’s pressing challenges.| AAPSS
On September 12–13, the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago hosted an authors’ conference in preparation for an upcoming volume of The ANNALS, tentatively titled Whither Meritocracy? Contributors presented their drafts and responded to questions and feedback from fellow authors and the volume’s special editors, Steven Durlauf …| AAPSS
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Knowledge that informs society.| www.aapss.org
By Marta Tienda| AAPSS
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By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
Recently, Amanda Gorman’s magnificent poem “The Hill We Climb,” famously delivered at President Biden’s inauguration, was placed on a restricted book list in Florida. It joins a growing list of titles that have been removed from school libraries, and its restriction is a deeply dismaying example of censorship for the sake of political expedience. PEN America, an organization that defends free expression and literature, has identified over 4,000 titles that either have been removed fro...| AAPSS
I was in Buenos Aires when I learned about the brutal, unprovoked attack by Hamas on innocent Israelis along the border of the Gaza Strip. Retaliation would follow—of that, I was sure. In early 1994, I spent three months in Tel Aviv shortly after the first intifada (~1987–1993) in which Palestinians used random acts of violence to protest Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During my three-month stay, an American Israeli physician opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying...| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
by Marta Tienda| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
President’s Corner: Social Science (and the AAPSS) in Uncharted Waters| www.aapss.org
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Stone Center Hosts ANNALS Authors’ Conference: Whither Meritocracy?| www.aapss.org
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The AAPSS Announces Sheldon Danziger as New President| www.aapss.org
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
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.| 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
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This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by demographer and sociologist Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow.| 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 made in their induction remarks.| 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.| AAPSS
This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by sociologist and demographer Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow.| 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 the forthcoming volume, tentatively titled Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism.| 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
