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Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, The Social Science Research Council, and The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University host a special program, “Social Science Knowledge and Its Future,” featuring a lecture by Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University, with a response by danah boyd, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, and Founder, Data & Society.

In his lecture, Prewitt will reflect on the past half-century of social science research, a “golden era” marked (in the U.S.) by the arrival of “big science,” the huge increase in readily-available government data, the significant dedication of foundation funds, the explosion of numbers in both PhDs and job opportunities, and the growth of a policy enterprise. As features of this golden era fade, Prewitt will identify a few key features emerging in the search for a new platform for advancing the social sciences.

The discussion to follow will be moderated by Margaret Levi, Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Kenneth Prewitt is also the Director of the Census Bureau, President of the Social Science Research Council, and Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He currently chairs the Division on Social & Behavioral Sciences of the National Academies of Science & is President of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

danah boyd is the founder and president of Data & Society, a research institute focused on understanding the role of data- driven technologies in society. She is also a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society.

Margaret Levi is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and professor of political science, Stanford University, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She became a member of the National Academy of Science in 2015, and received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science in 2014.

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, May 9, 2016.