A new fight with old battle lines
Book explores what France’s LGBTQ rights battle says about identity and belonging.
Nine SHASS faculty members awarded named professorships
Honored positions afford faculty additional support for research.
New faculty in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
SHASS welcomes eight new faculty members for 2016.
Bruno Perreau named to the French Academic Palms
Humanities scholar honored with France's highest distinction for academics.
3 Questions: Jeffrey Ravel on bringing data to cultural history
MIT conference stems from data-rich historical project on French theater.
Three from MIT named inaugural Schwarzman Scholars
New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China.
MIT Global Studies and Languages announces new Cantonese class
Pilot program will teach beginning-level Cantonese during the 2016 Independent Activities Period.
Charif Kiwan, representing Syrian film collective, to speak at MIT
Kiwan to discuss Abounaddara, an anonymous collective of volunteer, self-taught artists who create with the principle of emergency and an attitude of defiance.
Haitian educators and MIT faculty develop Kreyòl-based teaching tools
Project led by linguist Michel DeGraff is revolutionizing education in Haiti, and serving as a model for similar projects around the world.
Innovative humanities MOOC, “Visualizing Japan,” nominated for the Japan Prize
In a Q&A, course co-founder Professor Shigeru Miyagawa discusses his unique online course and its impact on digital education.
Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
Announcing MIT-SHASS new faculty for fall 2015
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes a new group of standout scholars.