Topic
Humanities
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MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 76 students from the Class of 2019
The new members of Xi of Massachusetts, the MIT chapter of PBK, combine the best of humanities, natural science, and social science scholarship.
June 20, 2019 -
MIT Policy Lab launches MITx course on policy outreach
The new online course aims to help researchers engage with public policymakers.
May 16, 2019 -
Susan Silbey earns faculty’s prestigious Killian Award
Innovative sociologist of law granted MIT’s highest faculty honor.
May 15, 2019 -
MIT Program in Digital Humanities launches with $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant
Among the program's offerings, the Digital Humanities Lab applies computational tools to humanistic research — and builds a community fluent in both languages.
April 17, 2019 -
Learning to study a painful past
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu studies pioneering Armenian women of the 19th and 20th centuries — and helps other scholars enter her field.
March 7, 2019 -
Thirty-six MIT students selected as 2019 Burchard Scholars
In a dinner-seminar program of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills.
February 13, 2019 -
Science as a social practice
PhD student Marion Boulicault believes in an interdisciplinary path forward for science, feminism, and philosophy.
January 17, 2019 -
Q&A: Roger Conover on a lifetime in publishing
Longtime executive editor for art and architecture at the MIT Press discusses his experiences in the publishing world.
December 12, 2018 -
When Japan met the world
Inspired by a family background with extensive U.S-Japan ties, historian Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan’s cultural links to other societies.
November 20, 2018 -
I think, therefore I code
Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.
November 15, 2018 -
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No.1 in business and economics, No.2 in arts and humanities
Worldwide honors for 2019 span three MIT schools.
November 15, 2018 -
Unraveling the complex histories of Palestinian artwork
“My job is to be critical and deep as an art historian, and not as a politician,” says PhD student Nisa Ari.
October 22, 2018 -
New recording blends old Europe and contemporary Cambridge
Pianist David Deveau’s latest album interprets works by Beethoven, Mozart, and MIT’s own John Harbison.
September 21, 2018 -
Book explores milestones of astronomical discovery
In “Dispatches from Planet 3,” Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.
September 18, 2018 -
Ana Miljacki: Scholar of designers and dreamers
Historian, curator, and designer studies architects and their quest to make a better world.
September 5, 2018 -
Risk, failure, and living your life: The economics of being an early-career scientist
Doctoral student Ryan Hill studies factors that influence researchers’ professional paths, while lending his voice to support student families.
August 9, 2018 -
Q&A: Anne McCants on "Waves of Globalization," the 2018 World Economic History Congress at MIT
Congress of leading thinkers in economic, business, and social history convenes in the US for first time in 50 years.
July 30, 2018 -
Environmental regulation in a polarized culture
Doctoral student Parrish Bergquist investigates how politics affects environmental decision-making.
July 24, 2018 -
Contemplating the eyes in the sky
Media studies scholar Lisa Parks examines the way satellites and other aerial technologies have changed society.
July 20, 2018 -
3 Questions: Historian Caley Horan on the rise of private insurance in the U.S.
Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.
July 3, 2018