In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
In the Media
The Doctor From Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars
July 28, 2020
SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow Jordan Bimm chronicles the controversial history behind Mars Jars and NASA's Cold War personnel.
In the Media
What we lose when we turn our backs on persuasion
July 28, 2020
SIFK Director Shadi Bartsch and psychologist Pamela Paresky tackle the nuances of persuasion, argumentation, and seduction in the latest edition of Forward's opinion series, "On Persuasion".
Features
Helping Hands: Uncovering an Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manual
May 28, 2020
Margaret Carlyle writes on an 18th Century midwifery manual for McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Blogs
Covid-19 and the Long History of Racially Maldistributed Mortality
May 26, 2020
Alexander Mazzaferro investigates America's long history of racial disparity and its impact on the nation's COVID-19 response.
Features
Famine Is a Choice
May 11, 2020
SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow Yan Slobodkin writes for Slate: "One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability."
Announcements
Check out our Latest Newsletter!
May 08, 2020
See what's happening this quarter at SIFK, and hear what our faculty has to say about the transition to online learning.
Blogs
Knowing Uncertainty: How Science Fiction Helps us Make Sense of the Pandemic
May 04, 2020
Anastasia Klimchynskaya draws parallels between Sci-Fi and our current world to show how literature can help us understand COVID-19 and our uncertain future.
News
Six UChicago scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 28, 2020
SIFK Faculty Member William Howell is one of six UChicago scholars to be named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Blogs
In Search of Plagues Past
April 27, 2020
Margaret Carlyle looks to past pandemics to gain insight on COVID-19.
In the Media
Visualising Viruses
April 24, 2020
SIFK Faculty Member Michael Rossi explores how we have historically created visual representations of disease, from images of the Grim Reaper to microbiological images of COVID-19.
Blogs
Using Quantitative Models to Guide Policy Amid COVID-19 Uncertainty
April 24, 2020
Nobel Laureate and SIFK Faculty Member Lars Peter Hansen shares his thoughts on the global pandemic and using quantitative models to guide policy amid COVID-19 uncertainty
Blogs
The Limits of Empathy
April 20, 2020
Yan Slobodkin explores the space between empathy and justice.
In the Media
Saving lives in the pandemic will also save the economy in the long run
April 06, 2020
SIFK Faculty Member Michael Greenstone estimates that social distancing can contribute $8 trillion to the economy — as well as saving millions of lives.
Blogs
Flattening the Curve: Visualization and Pandemic Knowledge
April 01, 2020
SIFK Postdoc Alex Campolo breaks down how we look at pandemics like COVID-19
Stay Up-to-Date on COVID-19
March 13, 2020
UChicago is monitoring and keeing members of the community informed about the public health situation related to novel coronavirus (COVID-19).