May 10, 2011
A short excerpt from Judith Stacey’s Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China, detailing one of the dozens of committed relationships she found outside the… READ MORE
May 5, 2011
Amy Farrell, author of our new book Fat Shame, tells Stephen Colbert why his inner fat person feels so bad about himself. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm /… READ MORE
May 4, 2011
Distinguished Professor Nancy Foner Named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor Nancy Foner Named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology… READ MORE
May 2, 2011
With some rough indications that intelligence from Guantanamo and the associated network of extra-legal prisons contributed to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, our nation is once again faced with… READ MORE
April 27, 2011
From the New York Times Room for Debate Blog: Arlene Davila is a professor of anthropology and American studies at New York University. She is the author of “Latino Spin:… READ MORE
April 19, 2011
The New York Times talked about the continuing problems with regulating nannies in NYC, despite reforms. They quoted the author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community in… READ MORE
April 18, 2011
NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge joins NYU Press and the Social Science Research Council to celebrate the launch of Possible Futures, a challenging new book series. In the first three… READ MORE
April 6, 2011
Adapted from an article by Jonathan Sarna, author of Jews and the Civil War, at forward.com Fifty years ago, for the Civil War centennial, New York’s Jewish Museum mounted a… READ MORE