Message from our director | Iris F. Litt, M.D.

“I Came Back!” So it says on the t-shirt I received at the 50th Reunion of CASBS. Little did I realize then, and surely not 25 years before when I arrived to be a Fellow, that I would be returning as its Director.

Program News Summer Workshops

How do three teams bringing together more than 30 of the nation's most respected social science scholars tackle the task of designing a multi-year effort to create new fields or transform existing ones? We asked the leaders of our three Collaborative Ventures Summer Workshops 2009 research teams to fill us in.

Conversations with Fellows

Can a family spend a year happily at CASBS? What is it like to come from outside the U.S.? How is it for Fellows' spouses who are also scholars? These and other questions are answered in the following recent conversations with three 2008-09 Fellows.