Conference CFP: Power at the Margins II

Apply now to be a presenter at the scholar-activist conference at UC Berkeley March 12-14, 2020. Academics across the social sciences and humanities have long worked to theorize the people, spaces, and politics of the fringes of traditional housing. Homelessness,...

CES Mourns the Death of Erik Olin Wright

The Center for Engaged Scholarship lost another friend with the death of Erik Olin Wright. Erik waged a long fight against Acute Myeloid Leukemia that included experimental treatments and a stem cell transplant. But the disease overcame both Erik’s formidable will to...

CES Wins Foundation Grant

The Center for Engaged Scholarship Wins Foundation Grant The Center for Engaged Scholarship is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. Specifically, the support is from a Hewlett project called “Beyond Neoliberalism: New Ideas for...

Values and Social Science

The Center for Engaged Scholarship is committed to the idea that the best scholarly work is motivated by normative commitments. However, in the decades after World War II in the U.S., many scholars believed that they should be strictly objective and produce “value...

CES Holds Second Dissertation Workshop

On a recent August weekend, we held the second CES dissertation workshop at the Marconi Conference Center with our five 2018-2019 awardees and a terrific group of faculty and other guests.   Much of the time was devoted to providing feedback to the graduate students...

Pin It on Pinterest

Skip to content