Division of the Social Sciences

Two Crown Family graduates pose for a selfie

UChicago’s Class of 2021 graduates tell their stories

Marshall D. Sahlins

Marshall D. Sahlins, titan of anthropology, 1930–2021

Tetsuo Najita

Tetsuo Najita, eminent scholar of Japan’s early modern and modern intellectual history, 1936-2021

DC Capitol building with flag

Why the presidential race isn’t the only election worth watching

Prof. Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein, groundbreaking anthropologist and linguist, 1945-2020

UChicago Campus

UChicago historian Alice Goff receives 2020 Berlin Prize

Paul Emmert, View of a Smallpox Hospital, Waikiki (1853)

Why quarantines are so difficult to implement: Lessons from the 1800s

Chicago street

Why a 1925 book is still relevant to urban sociology

Amanda Woodward

Amanda Woodward named dean of the Division of the Social Sciences

Center for Spatial Data Science opens at UChicago