CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | 2026 Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS)
July 26-31 | Application deadline: May 8
AIMS brings together scholars from across the social sciences for a week of learning, practice & collaboration at CASBS.
AIMS DETAILS and APPLICATION: bit.ly/4muwstd
CASBS event | May 6
What can Immigrant Cities Teach Us about Democracy?
Join CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social & Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America, in conversation w/ Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies
DETAILS & RSVP: bit.ly/4sJXA9L
Congrats to CASBS fellow Dan Ho, who received the 2026 CodeX Prize. The prize is awarded annually for noteworthy contributions to legal informatics that has had a significant and enduring positive impact on the field 👏
law.stanford.edu/press/stanfo...
Listen to Elisabeth Clemens on our podcast discussing the role of private civic volunteer organizations in co-constructing national identity & state capacity. She draws upon her stellar book "Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State"
➡️ casbs.stanford.edu/podcast-2024...
So great to see 2015-16 CASBS fellow Elisabeth Clemens consulted on this @pbsnews.org segment on volunteering.
No one better than Elisabeth, who wrote much of her book "Civic Gifts" at CASBS. We had her on the CASBS podcast in 2024 to talk about the book.
Check out the episode in the 🧵 below 😏
In her book-in-progress, @sristovska.bsky.social argues for a framework elucidating how visual evidence is produced, contested & adjudicated in court. If not, multiple inequalities that plague the U.S. legal system risk intensifying in the AI age. She explored the issues in her CASBS fellows seminar
NEW PUB from CASBS fellow @ralphwedgwood.bsky.social ⬇️
Public event at CASBS in partnership w/ @sagepub.com
Thursday, May 7 | 5:30pm
The 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture by
Hazel Rose Markus
“The Hidden Power of Cultural Defaults”
Event details, talk summary, and registration: bit.ly/4mhyeOm
2026 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of "Doctors, Patients, and Placebos" by Howard Spiro
As Spiro found as a 1982-83 fellows, so, too, today's fellows find a "relaxed and nondirective collegiality," free to contemplate where they've been & where they should go during their time here 😏
May 18 in-person event
CASBS fellow @coreydfields.bsky.social a featured speaker at this @fsi.stanford.edu @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social event on Black Politics and American Democracy. Fmr fellow @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social moderates 😏
Details, bios, RSVP info: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/black...
Crisp piece @projectsyndicate.bsky.social by 1998-99 CASBS fellow László Bruszt
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...
Congrats to CASBS fellows selected as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows 🙌👏
Damon Centola | Jamie Kreiner | @allisonpugh.bsky.social |@robbwiller.bsky.social | @dziblatt.bsky.social
@guggfellows.bsky.social announcement: www.gf.org/stories/anno...
Thanks especially to the 21st Century China Center at UCSD @ucsandiego.bsky.social and my year at CASBS @casbsstanford.bsky.social for making the book possible.
CASBS event | May 6
What can Immigrant Cities Teach Us about Democracy?
Join CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social & Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America, in conversation w/ Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies
DETAILS & RSVP: bit.ly/4sJXA9L
As a scholar from Madagascar, @nasandratraravo.bsky.social brings a rarely heard perspective to the CASBS landscape as a 2025-26 fellow.
We conducted a Q&A w/Nasandratra to learn about her work, her CASBS experience, and interactions occurring between the two.
casbs.stanford.edu/news/toward-...
The new government in Hungary will have to "both rebuild and restore confidence in democratic institutions and the rule of law while actively combating the corrupt practices that have fueled inflation and slowed economic recovery," writes CASBS fellow @profpjones.bsky.social
CASBS and Sage present: The 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture by Hazel Rose Markus "The Hidden Power of Cultural Defaults" Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 5:30pm PDT Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Photo of Hazel Rose Markus to the right, with the caption: Davis-Brack Professor in Behavioral Sciences Stanford University 2026 Sage-CASBS Award winner
Hazel Rose Markus, winner of this year’s Sage-CASBS award, will deliver a public lecture at @casbsstanford.bsky.social on May 7th.
Past winners include Daniel Kahneman, Elizabeth Anderson, Alondra Nelson, and Daron Acemoglu.
Read more about the award and register to attend: bit.ly/4mhyeOm
Ellen Ernst Kossek has done a ton of organizational field research on modern work & work-life balance. She's integrating the insights in a book project on democratizing flexibility & control over the work-life boundary & outlined the book's major themes & solutions during her CASBS fellow seminar
How did Florence's leadership system support the Renaissance's innovations? Can we reproduce something like it at a pivotal time like now? Leslie DeChurch proposes four Florentine principles that can transform organizations. They fuel her book project; she unveiled them in her CASBS research seminar
CASBS event | May 6
What can Immigrant Cities Teach Us about Democracy?
Join CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social & Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America in conversation w/ Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies
DETAILS & RSVP: bit.ly/4sJXA9L
Super cool that Maryanne Wolf's book "Reader, Come Home" is a @princeton.edu pre-read. Maryanne, now a CASBS board member, worked on the book as a CASBS fellow.
Accordingly, a copy of the book resides in CASBS's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
📖 www.princeton.edu/news/2026/04...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | 2026 Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS)
July 26-31 | Application deadline: May 8
AIMS brings together scholars from across the social sciences for a week of learning, practice & collaboration at CASBS.
AIMS DETAILS and APPLICATION: bit.ly/4muwstd
Public event at CASBS in partnership w/ @sagepub.com
Thursday, May 7 | 5:30pm
The 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture by
Hazel Rose Markus
“The Hidden Power of Cultural Defaults”
Event details, talk summary, and registration: bit.ly/4mhyeOm
A copy of the NEW BOOK by Veronica Terriquez, "Learning to Lead," parts of it drafted by Veronica during her 2020-21 CASBS fellowship, has entered into the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚
About this @russellsagefdn.bsky.social book: www.russellsage.org/publications...
Exactly 50 years ago, Edward Said famously wrote most of his landmark book "Orientalism" as a CASBS fellow.
Consider giving a listen to this recent CASBS podcast episode featuring a panel of four CASBS fellows reflecting on the book's continued impact & influence 🎙️🎧⬇️
Integrating local knowledge w/scientific expertise is essential for enabling more sustainable agricultural practices in smallholder farming communities. In her CASBS fellows seminar, @nasandratraravo.bsky.social argued for such "co-design" based on extensive fieldwork & experimentation in Madagascar
Difficult to overstate what a legend Hazel Markus is. Even if you don’t know her work directly, you’ve encountered work that’s def been influenced by it.
Just the other day I came across a book she coauthored on stigma that I somehow missed. Grabbed a copy immediately.
A very well-deserved honor.
BE HERE AS A 2026-27 CASBS PRACTITIONER FELLOW
Deadline 10 April 2026
Practitioner fellows' work applies behavioral science insights – this includes journalists, policy professionals, consultants & other non-academics
Learn more & access the practitioner fellowship application:
➡️ bit.ly/4rq66cy
CASBS event | May 6
What can Immigrant Cities Teach Us about Democracy?
Join CASBS fellow @iangoldin.bsky.social & Rachel Perić, Exec Dir of Welcoming America in conversation w/ Tomás Jiménez, Faculty Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies
DETAILS & RSVP: bit.ly/4sJXA9L
2026 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Linguistic Behaviour" by Jonathan Bennett
All the "attendant benefits" the Center offers fellows today are much the same as they were during Bennett's 1973-74 CASBS fellowship...😏