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Innovation in Education - Gallery of Innovations - Selected SHASS OCW Courses

From the Gallery of Innovations   Political Science 17.445/17.446 International Relations Theory in the Cyber Age (Fall 2015), Nazli Choucri
Nazli...

MIT SHASS Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship Program welcomes 2023-24 class

Fellowships support graduate scholars for a nine-month appointment at MIT.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - What We Are Doing

MIT News - Designing solutions to ensure equity in health care

MIT senior Daisy Wang interweaves biological engineering and women’s and gender studies as a way to address social problems.

News - 2016 - In the History Workshop: Building a printing press illuminates human systems

A group of MIT students briefly put away their cell phones this spring to concentrate on a much older information storage and retrieval device: the...

News - 2017 - Mens et Manus America initiative launches with documentary film event

200 students and faculty attend kickoff event as SHASS and Sloan begin a non-partisan, research-based exploration of current U.S. social, political,...

News - 2022 - New Shapiro Graduate Fellowship supports research on African-Americans and technology

HASTS PhD student Kelcey Gibbons is the inaugural recipient.

News - 2019 - Computing and AI - Humanistic Perspectives from MIT - Philosophy - Alex Byrne and Tamar Schapiro

“The new College of Computing presents an opportunity for MIT to be an intellectual leader in the ethics of technology. The Ethics Lab we propose...

News - 3Q with Amah Edoh on Africa and Innovation

"Africa today is seen as the future of global innovation and entrepreneurship in areas from technology to the arts. Important questions about Africa’...

MIT News - Q&A: Steven Gonzalez on Indigenous futurist science fiction

The HASTS PhD candidate describes his new book, “Sordidez,” a science fiction novella on rebuilding, healing, and indigeneity following civil war and...

News - 2020 - Pandemic - Meanings of Masks - Venetian masks - Historian Jeffrey S. Ravel

Masks for Carnival — and for finessing an archaic political order: "By the eighteenth-century in Venice, people had grown accustomed to wearing masks...