[Editors] Said and Done | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | June 2011
Deborah Fitzgerald
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_Highlights from Said and Done _| June 2011 Edition
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QUOTABLE
"I love my parents!"
— _new MIT Graduate, 2011_
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KUDOS
_Photo Gallery from Commencement Reception
_Congratulations to our 2011 Graduates! This gallery of photographs was
taken at the School's festive Commencement Reception on June 3, 2011.
Photography by the MIT Technique team.
[4]View Gallery
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_Maier wins George Washington Book Prize_
Pauline Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History, in MIT's
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has won the 2011 George
Washington Book Prize for her book Ratification: The People Debate the
Constitution, 1787-1788. Ratification has been widely hailed as the
definitive story of the most consequential political debate in American
history. The $50,000 Washington Book Prize is among the largest of the
literary prizes.
[5]More
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_Lawson named new director of the MISTI program _
Chappell Lawson, an associate professor of political science at MIT and a
member of the MIT Center for International Studies, has been named director
of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI). He
succeeds Suzanne Berger, the Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of
Political Science, as MISTI's director. Lawson will assume his new
responsibilities on July 1, 2011.
[6]Full story at MIT News
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MULTIMEDIA
_Infinite Mile History Project | Video interviews with leaders_
The MIT150 Infinite History project presents first-person recollections by
people who have made extraordinary contributions to their fields and to MIT.
Twelve members of the School community are featured in the series: Suzanne
Berger, Noam Chomsky, Peter Diamond, Ellen Harris, Philip Khoury, David
Mindell, Shigeru Miyagawa, James Poterba, Paul A. Samuelson, Robert Solow,
Charles Stewart, and Rosalind Williams.
[7]Watch interviews
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7. http://mit150.mit.edu/infinite-history
NEWS AND FEATURES
_School in the News | media reports from around the world _
A collection of recent news about the School's research in _The New York
Times_, _The Guardian_, _LA Times_, _The Washington Post_, _The Nation_,
_WSJ_, and other publications. This edition includes many reports and
commentary about Institute Professor Emeritus Peter Diamond's decision to
withdraw his nomination to the Federal Reserve Board.
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8. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/june_11#school-news
_Exhibit of James Howe's photographs opens in Panama's premiere museum
_Taken in the 1970s, Howe's photos of celebration rituals among Panama’s
Kuna people fascinate audiences—including the Kuna themselves. In his most
recent book, Howe illuminates the dialogue at the heart of ethnography, and
charts the Kuna's role in their own ethnography—a position that puts them at
the forefront of anthropology's ongoing shift from an observational to a
collaborative model.
[9]Slide show and story
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_Asian culture through a lens_
"In 2002, two MIT professors, Shigeru Miyagawa and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning historian John W. Dower, created a pioneering online education
program called 'Visualizing Cultures'... As it has grown over the years,
Visualizing Cultures...has become a kind of virtual museum ...an addictive
and visually stunning one not just for scholars but for anyone with even a
casual interest in Japan and China and their economic and cultural interplay
over the last 300 years.....The site is a marvel."
[10]Article at The New York Times
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10. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/june_11#asian-culture
RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
_Research Portfolio_
Research is the engine for the School's capacity to help meet the world's
great challenges. To name just a few areas of impact, the School's research
helps alleviate poverty, safeguard elections, understand the past and
present, improve health policy, articulate morality, steer economies, plan
space policy, assess the impact of new technologies, understand human
language, advance musicology, illuminate the U.S. Constitution, and create
new forms at the juncture of art and science.
[11]Research Portfolio
_Taxation without documentation_
New study co-authored by Economist Benjamin Olken shows ‘informal
taxation’ in developing countries is far greater than suspected, supporting
public works—and adding a burden for the poor. Olken reveals that developing
countries have extensive informal systems in which citizens contribute money
and labor to public-works projects, a finding with implications for aid
groups and governments trying to decide how to fund anti-poverty projects
worldwide.
[12]Story by Peter Dizikes at MIT News
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12. http://shass.mit.edu/magazine/june_11#taxation
_Are we alone together?
_"We’re seduced by the possibility that we’re always connected, always
wanted, always needed,” says Sherry Turkle, adding that "we’re so enmeshed
with our [electronic] connections that we neglect each other." Alone
Together is based on 15 years of research and hundreds of interviews with
children and adults. Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of
Social Studies of Science and Technology in MIT’s Program in Science,
Technology, and Society._
_[13]Story by Liz Karagianis in Spectrum Magazine_ _
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Bookshelf
The research of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
appears principally in the form of books and publications, as well as music
and theater productions. These gems of the School provide new knowledge and
analysis, innovation and insight, guidance for policy, and nourishment for
lives._
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