RESEARCH DIGESTS
Public access to significant research
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
To highlight how MIT’s humanistic research helps solve today’s major civilizational issues, we published a series of research-themed web sections that enable users to easily access collections of relevant research and analysis. On this page, you’ll find info and links to research collections on Human and Planetary Health, Climate, Democracy, the Legacy of Slavery, and Making a Just Society.
Advisor: Dean Melissa Nobles (Now Chancellor Nobles)
Series Editor + Design: Emily Hiestand
Web Assistant: Alison Lanier
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CITIZENSHIP
For this series, we drew on the expertise of faculty across the School to provide research-based insights and resources for strengthening civic engagement.
A Sampler: What can leaders and We, the People do to sustain our democracy?
Research-informed commentaries
Advisors: Dean Melissa Nobles, MIT SHASS faculty
Editor, Design: Emily Hiestand
https://web.archive.org/web/20221129064749/https://shass.mit.edu/research/impact/21st-century-democracy
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HUMAN HEALTH
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MIT leverages research innovations to help make health care affordable and universally available. MIT's humanistic fields contribute to this goal through a vast research portfolio on the political, cultural, historical, and economic dimensions of health and health care, and through research that informs public policy.
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CLIMATE & PLANETARY HEALTH
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MIT faculty, graduate students, and alumni in the humanistic fields share ideas and research that are significant for solving the economic, political, ethical, and cultural dimensions of the climate crisis.
Project Team: Advisor: Dean Melissa Nobles (now Chancellor Nobles)
Concept, Series Editor, Design: Emily Hiestand; Kathryn O’Neill: Co-Editor
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MAKING A JUST SOCIETY
Photo by Miki Jourdan, Flickr
Explore the Just Society series
The Way Forward Research-based perspectives from MIT's humanistic faculty
Related Books by MIT's humanistic faculty
Courses Free, Online Class Materials from OpenCourseWare / Undergraduate Classes
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MIT & THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY
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“MIT is part of a larger exploration of the ties between American universities and slavery, but we are not just participating, we are also leading a part of it. We are leading the research about the relationship of technology and science to the institution of slavery.” — Craig Steven Wilder, Weller Professor of History
Project Team: President Reif, Martha Eddison, Aaron Weinberger; Dean Melissa Nobles; Craig Steven Wilder, Weller Professor of History; Kirk Kolenbrander; Peter Dizikes, MIT News; Nora Murphy, MIT Libraries; MIT History Section; Video by Joe McMasters, Jean Dunoyer, and Emily Hiestand; Web presentation and feature articles: Emily Hiestand and Meg Murphy
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THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ISSUES
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Multi-disciplinary collaboration is a key to solving the issues of our time. To help advance that collaboration, we launched The Human Factor Series — a collection of stories and interviews that highlight research on the human dimensions of global challenges. Contributors describe research that generates social innovation, and share ideas for cultivating the collaborations needed to solve the major issues of our time.
Project Team: Advisor: Dean Melissa Nobles (now Chancellor Nobles)
Concept, Series Editor, Design: Emily Hiestand; Kathryn O’Neill: Co-Editor