scholarly networks Archives

Essays

Scholarly Committees as Elite Public Action: The SSRC and the Origins of Sociolinguistics

Monica Heller | September 4, 2018

Remapping Social Science Debates in Latin America: The Role of the SSRC

Jeremy Adelman and Margarita Fajardo | December 6, 2016

Basic Research and Its Challenges in East Africa

Peter Anyang' Nyong'o | October 18, 2016

Reflections on the Rise of Educational Nationalism

Allan E. Goodman | September 6, 2016

The Interdisciplinarity of Globalizing Knowledge

Michael D. Kennedy | August 16, 2016

Corporate Social Science and the Loss of Curiosity

Peter J. Taylor | August 2, 2016

An Opening Before There Was an Opening: The Council and Cuba Twenty Years On

Eric Hershberg and Stanley N. Katz | June 7, 2016

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