Recent Division of the Social Sciences obituaries.

A better graduate student experience.

SSD faculty analyze big data to find smart data.

Department chairs Cathy Cohen and Amanda Woodward discuss how the division is trying to “think differently” about gender and diversity.

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman conducts research among a strange, sometimes hostile tribe: computer hackers.

Graduate student Samuel Perry blends spirituality and sociology.

Origin story.

Looking ahead.

Recent faculty and alumni obituaries.

Updates from the Division of the Social Sciences.

The Department of History’s Emily Osborn and Tara Zahra discuss how a break from teaching stimulates their focus on research.

Lars Peter Hansen shapes the legacy of Chicago economics.