by Elaine K. Howley

For millennia, Chinese society has been richly populated with individuals who’ve shared ideas and connections across an enormous landmass. Identifying and cataloging all of these people through the ages is the aim of an ambitious prosopography project supported by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science called the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)... Read more about Mapping Chinese History and Society: The China Biographical Database quantifies a distant society and social network that looks remarkably like our own

For those who are feeling homesick for the halls of the CGIS Knafel Building or miss tossing a frisbee in the yard out back, you can now download this set of IQSS Zoom backgrounds! (Photographs are all by Dwayne Liburd.)... Read more about IQSS Backgrounds for Your Next Web Conference

Harvard University’s research centers devoted to studying human rights have posted this joint statement about the horrific events in Minneapolis and around the country. At IQSS, we stand with them and deeply appreciate their leadership on this issue. We reproduce their eloquent words here in full... Read more about A Message from the Director on Human Rights

by IQSS Staff

One thing is clear when speaking to Chase Harrison, Associate Director of the Program on Survey Research: PSR helps a lot of people at Harvard and beyond with survey methodology and research.... Read more about From Face-to-Face to Digital Space: PSR Helps Scholars Navigate Survey Research in a Time of Social Distance