SHASS News
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes six new faculty for 2026
New professors join the Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Economics, Linguistics, and Music and Theater Arts departments.
Read more
Following the questions where they lead
Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
Read more
Arthur Bahr named head of MIT’s Literature Section
A faculty member since 2007, the scholar of medieval literature explores how different parts of physical manuscripts combine to create interest and meaning.
Read more
Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all
PhD student Rachel Sava, winner of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize, explores transformative improvements and dystopian risks of neural technology.
Read more
Building a scholarly community
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.
Read more
In the media
MIT economist David Autor named to TIME100 AI list
TIME
Supreme Court gives Trump win in mail ballot dispute, but the fight continues
USA Today
Flawed audit did not find 228,000 invalid Mamdani votes
Reuters
Dry texting: The meaning behind teens’ short texts
Boston 25 News
SHASS videos
Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs
