Welcome to CES!
Our 2023-2024 application portal is now open! (The portal will remain open until Friday, December 16th.)

In solidarity: Black Lives Matter
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Welcome to CES!
Our 2023-2024 application portal is now open! (The portal will remain open until Friday, December 16th.)
About the Center
We’re social scientists who believe that the United States should be a more democratic, egalitarian, sustainable society.
Dissertation Fellowships
We created our dissertation fellowships to encourage engaged scholarship and the progress it supports.
Engaged Scholarship
Engaged scholarship advances social, racial, and environmental justice.

The Social Sciences are alive everywhere in our world.
Our goal is to encourage social scientists to use their research tools to create a more just, a more equal, and a more sustainable society.
New Book by a CES Fellow
Daanika Gordon, a CES Fellow in 2017-2018, has just published a book, Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation.
Meet the 2022-2023 Fellows
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022-2023 dissertation fellowship. This year, we selected seven fellows and two alternates.
CES Fellow Tiana Wilson’s Op-Ed in Washington Post
Read CES Fellow Tiana Wilson’s excellent op-ed in the Washington Post, discussing how to restore the radical origins of International Women’s Days.