Departments
History
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Mens et manus in the MIT History workshop
Students gain insights into early book-making technology and cultural systems by creating paper and a handset printing press from scratch.
June 10, 2016 -
3 Questions: Jeffrey Ravel on bringing data to cultural history
MIT conference stems from data-rich historical project on French theater.
May 18, 2016 -
How history can help us solve global economic issues
MIT economic historian Anne McCants discusses the connection between innovation and opportunity.
April 22, 2016 -
MITx Grant Program selects eight new innovative digital learning projects
New projects emphasize using digital methods not possible in traditional classes, leveraging research-based teaching practices, and measuring student learning.
March 16, 2016 -
Ten MIT-SHASS Research Fund recipients announced for 2016
January 25, 2016 -
Life in the aftermath
MIT historian’s book explores life for Armenians in modern Turkey.
January 8, 2016 -
Past and present
MIT’s Tanalís Padilla brings alive the history of political struggles in Mexico.
January 4, 2016 -
MIT’s response to earthquake in Nepal
MIT supports recovery and learning following earthquake in Nepal.
October 8, 2015 -
MIT observes Constitution Day 2015
Today the Institute honors the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
September 17, 2015 -
Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
September 16, 2015 -
Announcing MIT-SHASS new faculty for fall 2015
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes a new group of standout scholars.
September 14, 2015 -
Policing sex trafficking in the digital age
Mitali Thakor works with tech companies and police to understand what sex trafficking looks like today.
August 18, 2015 -
Jeffrey S. Ravel named head of MIT History
June 16, 2015 -
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
May 29, 2015 -
Passage from India
New book details how Kenya’s Indian immigrants established a foothold in a foreign land.
April 9, 2015 -
SHASS announces 12 research fund recipients for 2015
December 17, 2014 -
Said and Done for September 2014
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences
September 30, 2014 -
Said and Done for Summer 2014
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences
August 11, 2014 -
Anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger wins the 2013 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
January 6, 2014 -
The surprising story of Mongolian shamanism
MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.
December 16, 2013