News - 2015 - MIT named among three top universities in the world for humanities and arts
The Times Higher Education 2015 World University Rankings has named MIT one of the top three universities worldwide for arts and humanities education...
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News - 2016 - MIT students produce 2nd annual INSPIRE event - research competition for humanities, arts, social sciences
Founded and organized by MIT undergraduates, INSPIRE is the first ever national high school research competition in the humanities, arts, and social...
News Archive - 2017
School news from 2017.
Magazine - Said and Done - November 2021
NOVEMBER 2021MIT SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Subscribe QUOTABLE The work of election administrators "supports the U.S...
News - 2019 - Computing and AI - Humanistic Perspectives from MIT - History - Jeffrey Ravel
"The nuanced debates in which historians engage about causality provide a frame of reference for considering the issues that will inevitably emerge...
Magazine - Said and Done - September 2016
September 2016 Edition Published by the Office of the Dean MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences QUOTABLE "Humanity faces...
News - 2012 - Cuthbert receives $500K Digging for Data grant
Associate Professor of Music Michael Cuthbert, together with an international team of researchers, has been awarded a $500K grant from the Digging...
Inside the School - Resources - SHASS Publications
Welcome to the SHASS Content Directory — A convenient, one-page portal to the online channels and print content produced by the School's 20+...
News - 2011 - Communications Forum - fall series explores technology and media
For more than 30 years, the MIT Communications Forum has played a unique role at the Institute and beyond as a locus for sustained exploration of the...
Said and Done Magazine - November 2013
November 2013 Edition Published by the Office of the Dean MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences QUOTABLE...
Inside the School - Resources - Humanities Awards
The SHASS Dean’s Office will award two Humanities Awards of up to $100,000 each. Projects should be focused on a humanistic topic. Priority will be...
News - 2015 - Interview with Shigeru Miyagawa - Humanities MOOC nominated for Japan Prize
“Visualizing Japan”—a massive open online course (MOOC) co-taught by Shigeru Miyagawa and others—has been nominated for the Japan Prize, a...
Video - 2011 - Listening Faster
"Listening Faster — How Digital Humanities is Transforming Music Scholarship" is part of HyperStudio's humanities + digital conversations in...
News - 2013 - Humanities - Online Wi-Phi platform presents "philosophy's greatest hits"
A little philosophy could go a long way toward making the world a better place, says Damien Rochford, Ph.D. ’13, who has co-launched the Wi-Phi, an...
News - 2019 - Ethics and AI - A Network of Practitioners - Nick Montfort
"The new college presents an opportunity for many practitioners of computing at MIT. We should use this chance to build a truly robust network and to...
News - 2020 - Pandemic - Remote learning
MIT News — Meghan Perdue, MIT-SHASS digital learning fellow, catalyzes MIT’s plans to shift to online teaching in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
News - 2019 - Ethics and AI - A Dream of Computing - D. Fox Harrell
"We must be vigilant stewards of the future of computing at MIT. We must reimagine our shared dreams for computing technologies as ones where their...
Research Portfolio - Harrell catalyzes humanities science arts research
Fox Harrell brings together 55 thought leaders to advance using technology to better understand society—and using the humanities and arts to build...
2022 - Faculty Honors and Awards
JANUARY HISTORY; WRITING; THEATER ARTS; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETYSix faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2022 The SHASS...
News Archive - 2013
School news from 2013.
MIT News - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 10 new faculty
New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing; Economics; Literature; Music and Theater Arts; Science, Technology, and Society; and Political...
Spotlight - PEN New England at MIT
Dean Deborah Fitzgerald and members of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomed the PEN New England organization to the group’s...
News - Senior Spotlight - 2023
Meet 44 of the many graduating seniors who focused deeply on both the Liberal Arts and STEM fields at MIT. In their own words, these students reflect...
News - 2019 - Ethics and AI - Blending and Bilinguals - Hal Abelson
"When we study society today, we can no longer separate humanities — the study of what’s human — from computing. MIT’s guideline should be President...