Connect with The Abstract, a new podcast from ISR
March 13, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has launched a new podcast. “The Abstract,” a brief look at presentations and talks given by social researchers at ISR, released its first three episodes this week....
Register now for BioSocial Methods ICPSR Summer Workshops
February 20, 2024
BioSocial Methods and the Research Center for Group Dynamics are proud to offer two ICPSR summer workshops in 2024: An introduction to psychophysiology, to explore the relationship between the human mind and body (hybrid) and a 3-day in-person session at the U-M HomeLab, where...
Patricia Gurin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Program for Research on Black Americans
February 5, 2024
From the left: Philip Bowman, Patricia Gurin, Linda Chatters, and Robert Joseph Taylor ANN ARBOR – Patricia Gurin, a professor emerita of psychology and women’s study who was a pioneer in intergroup dialogue, received a Lifetime Achievement Award on Wednesday from the Program for Research on...
Two ISR-affiliated faculty members receive project funding from the Graham Sustainability Institute
January 22, 2024
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — Three researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research have been awarded catalyst grants funded by the Graham Sustainability Institute. Atiyya Shaw, Ph.D. of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD), Sunghee...
Do you have an unusual name? Your parents’ cultural sense of self may have something to do with it.
December 18, 2023
An unusual name can be a conversation starter. How do you pronounce that? Where does that come from? Does that mean something? A series of conversations centered around the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) at the Institute for Social Research have recently provided me with some new...
Behavioral science recommendations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic have now been tested
December 18, 2023
RCGD affiliate Shinobu Kitayama contributes to a landmark evaluation ANN ARBOR — Behavioral science recommendations made early on in the COVID-19 pandemic were largely correct. In April 2020, a hugely influential paper (Van Bavel et al) proposed 19 policy recommendations describing how...
ISR remembers and honors James S. Jackson with research symposium and atrium dedication
December 8, 2023
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR) honored the life, career, and memory of James S. Jackson with a research symposium on Friday, December 1, 2023. ISR also renamed its atrium in Jackson’s honor, paying...
Program for Research on Black Americans 2023 Reunion Unites Leading Scholars
December 6, 2023
ANN ARBOR – The pioneering black psychologist James S. Jackson transformed the way that researchers study and understand Black American life– but his mentorship of a generation of Black scholars is an equally enduring legacy. The latter was the salient theme of the 2023 Reunion of the...
Katrina R. Ellis named as the Next James S. Jackson Emerging Scholar
December 4, 2023
ANN ARBOR — Katrina R. Ellis, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, has been named the next James S. Jackson Emerging Scholar by the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). Dr. Ellis is an affiliate of the...
PRBA Names Katrina R. Ellis as the Next James S. Jackson Emerging Scholar
December 1, 2023
ANN ARBOR — Katrina R. Ellis, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, has been named the next James S. Jackson Emerging Scholar by the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). Dr. Ellis is an affiliate of the...