SHASS News

Seth Mnookin and Heather Paxson named faculty co-leads of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences professors will help shape the next chapter of MITHIC, a presidential initiative launched in 2024.
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Why does wealth inequality matter?
The MIT James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work recently hosted a half-day symposium at the Institute on “Why Wealth Inequality Matters.” Three panel discussions convened experts from economics, philosophy, sociology, and political science to explore the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of wealth inequality. Richard Locke, John C […]
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A Renaissance woman for the modern age
In “Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron,” lecturer Leanna Bridge Rezvani paints a fascinating portrait of an iconoclastic writer, advocate, scholar, and reformer.
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Twelve professors selected for 2026-27 cohort of SHASS Faculty Fellows
Selected fellows include professors from Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Science, Technology, and Society
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MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine
During this year’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), students, researchers, and collaborators across seven time zones came together to tackle urgent technical challenges facing Ukraine as the full-scale war enters its fourth year. A four-week hackathon, Build for Ukraine 2.0, brought MIT students and Ukrainian collaborators into a shared innovation environment where power outages, air-raid alerts, […]
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