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...

Engaged Scholars at Work

Read the op-ed from Idit Fast, a 2018-2019 CES Fellow and Ph.D. student in Sociology at Rutgers University.

First CES Workshop

Fred Block | Research professor at U.C. Davis Center for Engaged Scholarship Hosts First Dissertation Workshop On the weekend of September 8-10, the Center for Engaged Scholarship held our first dissertation workshop at Costanoa Lodge in Pescadero, California....

Scholarly Change

M.V. Lee | Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst How can academics in the social sciences contribute to social change? M.V. Lee Badgett’s article (below) shows that scholarly work matters in how...

Protect Academic Freedom

Fred Block | Research professor at U.C. Davis The global academic community is diminished when attacks on academic freedom are made. Academic Freedom Under Threat NOTE:  This will be a continuing item on the website. The academic community is global and it is...

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