Project

Race and Capitalism

The Race and Capitalism project is a multi-institution collaboration that seeks to reinvigorate, strengthen and deepen scholarship on how processes of racialization within the U.S. shaped capitalist society and economy and how capitalism has simultaneously shaped processes of racialization.

Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Region

This project aims to nurture an international network of scholars exploring the geopolitical effects of climate change in the Indian Ocean region, a key site for examining the immediate and long-term responses to phenomena such as sea-level rise, increased flooding, and more frequent drought.

Big Data and Historical Social Science

The project on Big Data and Historical Social Science brings together researchers across a range of disciplines, methods, and research strategies to explore the intersection of classical historical and social science problems with big data.

Cultural Influences in Regulatory Capture

In collaboration with the Tobin Project’s Preventing Capture Initiative, this initiative is exploring promising paths forward for research that identifies important cultural mechanisms of undue industry influence and builds understandings of how we might best mitigate cultural capture in the future.

Hemingway Document Preservation Project

In June 2008 the SSRC’s Working Group on Cuba completed a collaborative project between the United States and Cuba to preserve and reformat the papers of Ernest Hemingway housed at the Hemingway Museum at Finca Vigía, the Nobel Prize–winning author’s former residence outside of Havana.

Work with Economists in Cuba

Over the past decade, a succession of grants from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation has enabled the SSRC to undertake an array of activities designed to expand and deepen intellectual ties between Cuban economists and their counterparts abroad.

Transregional Virtual Research Institute

In 2012, in close collaboration with colleagues at Göttingen University, the Council launched the Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI), a collaborative enterprise that brings together faculty from different disciplines, different international campuses, and at different stages in their careers to further research and training on particular themes.

Mapping America

Building off of our national reports, Mapping America is an interactive tool with the mission of providing easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding well-being and opportunity in America and to stimulate fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and income.

State and Local Human Development Reports

Measure of America’s Portrait report series uses the American Human Development Index in combination with feedback from local stakeholders and advisors to take a close look at barriers to inequality in US states, counties, and metro areas and spark data-driven change.

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