SHASS News
A philosophy of work
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
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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?
An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality.
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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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In the media
Another symptom of growing isolation
The Atlantic
Vote prediction market Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'
NPR
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
The Guardian
The AI boom tests the limits of growth
Axios
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Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs
