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Faculty Comparative Human Development Announcements
UChicago scholar premieres documentary on racial health disparities
“The Fight for Black Lives” selected for Santa Barbara International Film Festival In the United States, Black newborns are 2.5 times more likely t...
February 28, 2024Announcements Faculty Anthropology Comparative Human Development History Sociology
2024-25 Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Projects Announced
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected eight new faculty-led research projects to launch July 1, 2024. “These new faculty rese...
February 14, 2024Announcing the 2024-25 CISSR Faculty Fellows
UChicago’s Center for International Social Science Research, under the Division of the Social Sciences, has announced the 2024-2025 cohort of Faculty ...
February 6, 2024Faculty Psychology Comparative Human Development Announcements
Big Brains: Susan Goldin-Meadow on what our hands reveal about our thoughts
Language shapes our world. But when we speak, there is actually a secret conversation happening beyond our words. It’s happening not with our mouths—b...
January 25, 2024Deepening 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, 2024Two SSD researchers receive NEH grants for their studies of disability technoculture, global capitalism
By Sarah Steimer Research from two SSD faculty — one focused on cochlear implants within disability technoculture and the other examining the effec...
October 17, 2023Faculty Comparative Human Development Announcements
Turning a keen eye toward the tension between protected migrants and exclusionary tendencies in the West
This book has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association. Chiara Galli’s forthcoming book is b...
April 13, 2024