Where Humanities and Social Sciences Meet

What makes us human? What forces -- both past and present -- shape our values and beliefs? The human experience in all its aspects involves the simultaneous interaction of complicated biological, psychological, historical, philosophical, aesthetic, spiritual, social, and cultural forces. Given the mission of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a vibrant humanistic presence is essential.

Indeed, of the 2,193 scholars who have been Fellows since our founding, about 20 percent came from humanities disciplines. In addition, many other Fellows come from traditional social science disciplines where a clear cultural or interpretive turn is in evidence so that some Fellows from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and sociology are closely attuned to the humanities. As one of the major international research centers for the humanities, the Center has included in each class a significant number of historians, philosophers, English and comparative literature scholars, classicists, experts in art and music, novelists, and other humanists.

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