Winter 2018What is a city?
Through distinct lines of research, historian Brodwyn Fischer and sociologist Marco Garrido have found that the very effort to define and formalize urban life can often backfire and lead to unexpected social and political transformations.
February 19, 2018Project Update: Alan Kolata and Sabina Shaikh in Cambodia
2017-18 CISSR Faculty Fellows Alan Kolata and Sabina Shaikh have been conducting fieldwork for their project to measure human activities in the Cambodian Region of the Mekong River floodplain and examine how those activities may change given climate change and other human-made developments.
January 22, 2018Sociologist Marco Garrido Calls for a Bottom-up Approach to Researching Populist Politics
CISSR affiliate Marco Garrido discusses his findings on populism in the Philippines and new ways of studying the social connections that keep voters loyal.
November 28, 2017Poland’s in crisis again. Here’s what you should know about the far right’s latest power-grab.
Analysis in the Washington Post by CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa
November 20, 2017Call for Doctoral Research Proposals
University of Chicago doctoral students are invited to submit proposals for 2018-2019 Research Fellowships.
November 16, 2017As Poland's nationalists take the spotlight, notice the protesters
Chicago Tribune commentary by CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa
Meet the 2017-18 Fellows
CISSR's inaugural cohort of fellows work across disciplines and regions of the world.
October 1, 2017Director's Welcome
CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli on the Center's community of social scientists and research support initiatives.
March 15, 2017A Big Tent for Global Inquiry
The Division of the Social Sciences is bringing new attention to international scholarship with the creation of the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), under the direction of Department of Political Science professor Dan Slater.
October 7, 2016Letter from Dean David Nirenberg
"I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Center for International Social Science Research, an initiative in the Division of the Social Sciences designed to promote the study of large-scale questions of global importance."