The collection's 38 interviews document the Tunisian revolution (2010-2011) and the period of the transitional governments (2011-2014), with a particular emphasis on the technocratic government of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa (January 2014-December 2015).
Read MoreIn Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice.
Read MoreThis paper explores the proliferation of wearable technology, how the data might help researchers understand population health trends, and describes the concept called a “domestic health index,” or DHI, as both a promotional tool and as a valuable dataset in its own right.
Read MoreThis article uses an INCITE-created database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore how high culture became a form of socially valuable capital in late-19th-century America. The authors find support for the classic account of high culture’s purification and exclusiveness.
Read MoreThis project explores Americans who identify as white or partially white think about their racial identities, along with a variety of other issues. We surveyed 850 participants in three U.S. cities and interviewed 116 of these participants.
Read MoreA definitive guide to the editing and publication of oral history transcripts.
Read MoreWe combined fMRI and longitudinal social network data to test whether newly acquainted group members’ reward-related neural responses to images of one another’s faces predict their future interpersonal sentiment, even many months later.
Read MoreWe show that it is possible to induce a semantic network image of the Bible, that this structure serves as a skeletal frame for interpretation, thereby highlighting different contents as central to denominations’ religious inspirations and concerns.
Read MoreThis oral history documents the life and legacy of renowned American Artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008). It focuses on Mr. Rauschenberg’s impact on the avant art world of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and the conditions for creativity that inspired his work, comprise the framework for the project’s design.
Read MoreThis oral history project documents the Institute's substantive role in area studies and academia and its influence on the making of U.S. foreign policy towards the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eurasia.
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