Congratulations to our co-director Julia Cathleen Ott, who served on the Scholars Committee for the Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning exhibit, New York at Its Core. New York at Its Core was recently named the number 1 exhibit nationally by the American Alliance of Museums. The exhibit won the American Alliance of
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Updates from the Heilbroner Center
2018-2019 Faculty Research Fellowships
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite faculty in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship of up to $5660 to support research and writing during the 2018-2019 academic year (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019). Proposals should provide a one-page explanation
2018-2019 Graduate Student Fellowships
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dissertation and Thesis Fellowships The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite doctoral and master’s candidates in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship to support dissertation or thesis research and writing during the 2018-2019 academic year. Students may be considered for one
Biofinance: Biological foundations of capital imaginaries
This post was originally published on Public Seminar. To see the original article, click here. Capitalism has been the subject of too many conflicting definitions for any of the claims that follow to have any purchase on truth — understood as an adequation to the real. Beneath the numerous disagreements, however, a common substratum can be
Former Faculty Fellow and “Uneasy Street” Author Rachel Sherman Named 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Please congratulate former Heilbroner Center Faculty Fellow and Uneasy Street author Rachel Sherman on being named 2018’s Andrew Carnegie Fellow! The following report was originally published on New School News. In her critically acclaimed 2017 book, Uneasy Street: the Anxieties of Affluence, Rachel Sherman spoke with 50 affluent New Yorkers to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding
Graduate Fellow Amanda Zadorian Named Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Moscow
Please congratulate our Graduate Fellow Amanda Zadorian on her upcoming postdoctoral fellowship at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. For more information, click here.
As West Virginia Goes: Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike
Below, find an excerpt from “As West Virginia Goes: Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike” by Ken Fones-Wolf. The entire article is available from Public Seminar. “For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump
Spring 2018 Sociology Lecture Series
Please join our colleagues at NSSR’s Sociology department for their upcoming Spring 2018 Lecture series! All lectures will be held in the Wolff Conference Room, 1103, 6 East 16th Street. See you there!
Darrick Hamilton Confronts Inequality Through Economics
The following article was originally published on New School News. “The first week of 2018 was a busy one for Darrick Hamilton, one of the country’s leading stratification economists. At the start of the new year, he traveled to the American Economic Association conference in Philadelphia to make a presentation on baby bond accounts, his
Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?
Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life Below, find an excerpt of Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s essay, “Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?” The whole piece is available through Public Seminar. “Now. Those discussions inform my appreciation of the latest developments, anticipating their future promise. The #MeToo movement in