Podcast: SHASS’s special sauce
Established after World War II, the School of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is an integral part of the MIT experience. Three faculty reflect on the school’s ongoing impact.
Established after World War II, the School of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is an integral part of the MIT experience. Three faculty reflect on the school’s ongoing impact.
MIT anthropologist Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt.
MIT historian Tristan Brown uncovers the true origins of an artifact once thought to be a relic of the Boston Tea Party.
The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, administered by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, is fostering new research projects and creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion.
A leading innovator in community-based archaeology, Professor Sonya Atalay works to link local know-how with academic inquiry across the globe.
Living Climate Futures Symposium explores climate challenges and solutions at the community level.
Anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies overlooked insights from people health care is meant to reach.
MIT computer science students design AI chatbots to help young users become more social, and socially confident.
Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.
The inaugural MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) Annual Event showcased the breadth of projects supported in the first year of the presidential initiative.
A volunteer-driven pilot program brings low-cost organic produce to the MIT community.
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Researchers find that design elements of data visualizations influence viewers’ assumptions about the source of the information and its trustworthiness.
Sandy Alexandre, Manduhai Buyandelger, and Eden Medina take on new leadership positions.
The prestigious honor society announces nearly 250 new members.