How to stage a revolution
MIT History class explores the roots and complexities of revolutions across the globe.
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History
Bringing figures in anticolonial politics out of the shadows
MIT historian Sana Aiyar sheds new light on the complexities of independence movements and global migration.
Uncovering the role of technology and medicine in deaf and signing worlds
Timothy Loh, a HASTS program doctoral student studying deafness, sign language, and technology, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist-in-training.
PhD student Marc Aidinoff explores how technology impacts public policy
Historian's research focuses on understanding how visions for social and economic policy are tied to changing ideas about technology.
Historian of the hinterlands
In overlooked spots on the map, MIT Professor Kate Brown examines the turbulence of the modern world.
Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
SHASS faculty members Nikhil Agarwal, Sana Aiyar, Stephanie Frampton, Daniel Hidalgo, and Miriam Schoenfield were recently granted tenure.
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3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
How do we understand Russia’s multi-layered interference in the 2016 elections? A Russia expert and professor of history analyzes Russia’s motives.
3 Questions: Alan Lightman’s new novel about Cambodia and family
MIT writer’s new work, “Three Flames,” explores the fractures and bonds among kin in a rebuilding society.
Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked.
Meet the 2019-20 MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars
Six scholars and professors are spending this academic year in engagement with the MIT community.
A new act for opera
Emily Richmond Pollock’s book examines creative attempts to refashion postwar opera after Germany’s “Year Zero.”
The permanent struggle for liberty
Daron Acemoglu’s new book examines the battle between state and society, which occasionally produces liberal-democratic freedom.
Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.
J-WAFS announces 2019 Solutions Grants supporting agriculture and clean water
Projects address access to clean water in Nepal via wearable E. coli test kits, improving the resilience of commercial citrus groves, and more.
Understanding populism
At MIT forum, scholars wrestle with the dynamics of a global political trend.