News

October 2009

October 2nd 2009
Six former International Dissertation Research Fellows win SSRC’s 2010 Book Fellowship for turning their dissertations into book manuscripts.

September 2009

September 25th 2009
SSRC forms new working group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts.
September 25th 2009
SSRC announces new advisory committee on Religion and International Affairs, co-chaired by Scott Appleby, Katherine Marshall, and Alfred C. Stepan.
September 23rd 2009
Museum of American Finance and SSRC co-host panel on privatization of risk, to take place Sept 29.
September 23rd 2009
Reuters AlertNet reports on SSRC-led ASCI study of HIV/AIDS in fragile countries.
September 22nd 2009
Voice of America interviews program director Alex de Waal about findings of newly released ASCI report on security threats posed by HIV/AIDS.
September 22nd 2009
The AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI), a joint venture between SSRC and Clingendael Institute for International Relations (the Hague), launches major report, receives coverage by UN News Service.
September 18th 2009
CBS affiliate WWL-TV Channel carries story on SSRC’s A Portrait of Louisiana, leads with stats on life expectancy for African Americans in New Orleans.
September 17th 2009
Philosopher and former SSRC Fellow Daniel Little, writing for his blog UnderstandingSociety, assesses Craig Calhoun’s Sociology in America: A History as the “best historical sociology of the disciplines of sociology that I’ve seen.”
September 15th 2009
Idea of the Day,a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the NYT’s Week in Review, lists Herbert Gans’ essay for SSRC public sphere forum as recommended reading.
September 14th 2009
Before taking part in a major international forum on global security hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, SSRC President Craig Calhoun answers questions on these topics for RT, Russia’s 24/7 English-language news channel.
September 14th 2009
Sarah Burd-Sharps, co-director of the American Human Development Project, contributes to Marketplace radio show’s coverage of French President Sarkozy and his statement about the limitations of GDP as a measure of well-being.
September 11th 2009
SSRC’s American Human Development Project announces the release of A Portrait of Louisiana, available Sept 17.
September 11th 2009
Patrick Lee Miller’s post to The Immanent Frame, “Immanent Spirituality,” is finalist for the 3QD Philosophy Prize 2009, to be announced Sept 22.
September 11th 2009
In New York Times op-ed, SSRC-Van Alen Fellow Eric Sanderson says that on 9/11 anniversary, Manhattanites should take comfort in city’s capacity for self-renewal, as chronicled in his ecological history.
September 9th 2009
In advance of President Obama’s address to Congress on health care reform, Jacob Hacker talks to Salon about why a public option is crucial. Hacker edited Health at Risk, part of the SSRC’s Privatization of Risk book series.
September 4th 2009
“Off the Cuff” continues to post summer reading picks by various contributors to the SSRC’s The Immanent Frame blog.
September 3rd 2009
1999 Abe Fellow Sawako Shirahase cited in briefing by The Economist on the Japanese election and changes in Japanese society.
September 3rd 2009
Herbert Gans argues for “Some Needed Disciplinary Changes for Creating Public Sociology” in the SSRC’s Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum.

August 2009

August 29th 2009
Program director Lee Sigal quoted in Korea Times about likelihood of special envoy Stephen Bosworth’s visit to Pyongyang in September.