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Social Science History Institute

Up one level:

Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS)

Directors: Stephen Haber

Office: 450 Serra Mall, Building 370

Mail Code: 94305-2077

Phone: (650) 723-1466

Email: toney@stanford.edu

Web Site: http://sshi.stanford.edu

The goal of the Social Science History Program is to re-engineer the manner in which students in social science departments learn about historical institutions and data, and the manner in which students in history and related disciplines are trained in social science methods. Historians and social scientists share many of the same substantive interests, such as the development of economies, political systems, and social structures, but they approach them with different and complementary methods and bodies of evidence. There is a great deal of potential for historians and social scientists to draw from the strengths of each other's methods to improve their own work and to foster increased interaction among the disciplines that employ history as a laboratory to operationalize social science theories. The Social Science History Program seeks to realize this potential by transplanting state-of-the-art research methods from classics, economics, history, political science, and sociology across the boundaries of each discipline. Toward this end, SSHP offers conferences and research support for faculty and graduate students. The program is an affiliate of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.

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