Tag Archive for: UCLA Social Sciences

UCLA receives $20 million to establish UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

The Bedari Foundation, established by philanthropists Jennifer…

Study finds cultural differences in attitudes toward infidelity, jealousy

In cultures where fathers are highly invested in the care…

Professor’s latest book examines the history of cities

The only thing a person really needs to be an archaeologist…

The stone faces and human problems on Easter Island

In 1981, archaeology graduate student Jo Anne Van Tilburg…
Karida Brown and Robert Dallek

Two professors will be part of the Obama Presidency Oral History Project

Karida Brown, assistant professor of sociology, and Robert…
Jo Anne Van Tilburg, right, and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati

The stone faces and human problems on Easter Island

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg continues to seek insight…
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Brenda Elaine Stevenson receives inaugural 2019 Germany residency at the University of Augsburg

During its annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,…
Photo of the DVD cover for the Nollywood film 'Water of Glod'.

Social scientists partner with Nollywood film industry to test a corruption-reporting campaign in Nigeria

  A team of social scientists, including UCLA political…
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New endowed chair in history goes to Nile Green, scholar of global history and Islam

  UCLA professor of history Nile Green, a…
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Political science professor’s new bestseller illuminates America’s ‘Identity Crisis’

For almost a decade, UCLA political science professor Lynn…