Fact: Many of the world’s leading social scientists like to read Social Science Files.

Among our 1800+ subscribers are 300 or so outstanding scholars. A significant number read every email. I am grateful for their continuing interest and support. Many of the following have been with us since early-mid 2022. [updated Oct. 2024]


A

David Abulafia (Cambridge)

Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)

Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)

Guillermo Algaze (UCal)

Clifford Ando (Chicago)

Valentina Arena (UCL)

B

Kathryn Bard (Boston)

Gojko Barjamovic (Harvard)

Alan Barnard (ED)

Miroslav Bárta (Charles)

Vitali Bartash (Bonn)

Robert Bartlett (St Andrews)

Alexa Bartelmus (Munich)

James Belich (Oxford)

Odette Boivin (NYU)

Martin Bomas (MQ)

Peter Bowler (Queen’s)

Geoffrey Brennan (ANU) (d. 2022)

Robert Brenner (UCLA)

Alain Bresson (Chicago)

Glenn Burgess (Hull)

C

Jean-Pierre Cabestan (HK)

Robert Cialdini (Arizona)

Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)

Peter Clarke (Southampton)

John H. Cochrane (Hoover)

Brian Codding (Utah)

Randall Collins (Penn)

Kathlyn M. Cooney (UCLA)

Tim Cornell (Birmingham)

Alan Cromartie (Reading)

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Katrien De Graef (Gent)

Alan Dershowitz (Harvard)

Frank Dikötter (HKU, SOAS)

Susan Doran (Oxford)

Paul Dresch (Oxford)

Prasenjit Duara (Duke)

Esther Duflo (MIT)

Paul J. du Plessis (ED)

Christopher Dyer (Birmingham)

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Timothy Earle (NWU)

Jon Elster (Columbia)

Richard Epstein (NYU)

F

Brian M. Fagan (UCal)

Vincent Farenga (USC)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto (ND)

Bill Finlayson (Oxford)

Roland Fletcher (Sydney)

Paul Fouracre (Manchester)

Robin Lane Fox (Oxford)

Simon Franklin (Cambridge)

Francis Fukuyama (Stanford)

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Michael Gagarin (Texas)

Denis Galligan (Oxford)

Stephen Garfinkle (WWU)

Peter Garnsey (Cambridge)

Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford)

Anthony Giddens (LSE)

Gerd Gigerenzer (Berlin)

Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

Mark Godfrey (Glasgow)

Wolfram Grajetzki (UCL)

Adam Grant (Penn)

Peter Gries (Manchester)

Matt Grove (Liverpool)

Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford)

Steven Gunn (Oxford)

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Stephen Haber (Stanford)

Jonathan Haidt (NYU)

Sarah Hamilton (Exeter)

Norman Hammond (Boston)

Timothy Harrison (Toronto)

Mogens Herman Hansen (Hum) (d.2024)

Russell Hardin (NYU)

Duncan Hardy (Florida)

James S. Hart, Jr. (Oklahoma)

Peter Heather (Kings)

Andre Heller (Bamberg)

Stephen Holmes (NYU)

Christopher Hood (Oxford)

Howard Hotson (Oxford)

I

David J. Ibbetson (Cambridge)

Takeshi Inomata (Arizona)

J

Wendy James (Oxford)

Martin Jehne (Dresden)

Eric L. Jones (La Trobe)

Norman Jones (USU)

Michael Jursa (Vienna)

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Daniel Kahneman (Princeton) (d.2024)

Dennis Kehoe (Tulane)

Christopher Kelly (Cambridge)

Matthew Kempshall (Oxford)

Christiana Köhler (Vienna)

Egbert Koops (Leiden)

Ian Kuijt (Notre Dame)

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Dan Lawrence (Durham)

Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Steffen Terp Laursen (Aarhus)

Jonathan Lear (Chicago)

Mark Lehner (GWU)

Steven Levitt (Chicago)

Thomas E. Levy (UCSD)

Mark Lewis (Stanford)

Peter H. Lindert (UCal)

Steven Lukes (NYU)

M

Debin Ma (Oxford)

Bruno Maçães (CEIP)

Linda Rosa Manzanilla Naim (UNAM)

Ezra Marcus (Haifa)

Brian McGing (Trinity Dublin)

Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge)

Deirdre McCloskey (UIC)

John Maddicott (Exeter)

Michael Mann (UCLA)

Harvey Mansfield (Harvard)

Alexandra Maryanski (UCal)

Arthur Melzer (MSU)

Michael J. Mendle (Bama)

Elizabeth A Meyer (Virginia)

Piotr Michalowski (Michigan)

Steven Mithen (Reading)

Nadine Moeller (Yale)

Christopher M. Monroe (Cornell)

Andrew Monson (NYU)

Ian Morris (Stanford)

Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern)

Henrik Mouritsen (KCL)

Craig Muldrew (Cambridge)

Charles Murray (AEI)

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Rory Naismith (Cambridge)

Janet Nelson (King’s)

Reviel Netz (Stanford)

Nicky Nielsen (Manchester)

O

Josiah Ober (Stanford)

Robin Osborne (Kings)

P

Stephan Palmie (Chicago)

Bruce Parrott (John Hopkins)

Richard Passingham (Oxford)

Susanne Paulus (Chicago)

Michael Peachin (NYU)

Markku Peltonen (FI)

Philip Pettit (ANU & Princeton)

Steven Pincus (Chicago)

Robert Plomin (Kings)

Gianfranco Poggi (Virginia) (d.2023)

Jerome Pollitt (Yale) (d.2024)

Adam Przeworski (NYU)

Yuri Pines (HUJI)

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Dominic Rathbone (Kings)

Colin Renfrew (Cambridge)

Jennifer Roberts (CUNY)

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford)

John Roemer (NYU)

Christopher Rowe (Durham)

Scott Rozelle (Stanford)

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Anthony Saich (Harvard)

John Samples (Cato)

James C. Scott (Yale)

Judith Scheele (Oxford)

David Schloen (Chicago)

Ingo Schrakamp (Berlin)

Glenn M. Schwartz (John Hopkins)

David Sedley (Cambridge)

Michael Seth (JMU)

Steven M. Shavell (Harvard)

Stephen Shennan (UCL)

Quentin Skinner (QMUL)

Hannah Skoda (Oxford)

Adam T. Smith (Cornell)

David L. Smith (Cambridge)

David Sneath (Cambridge)

Johann Sommerville (Wisc)

Andrew Mark Spencer (Cambridge)

George Steinmetz (Mich)

Roel Sterckx (Cambridge)

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Münster)

Cass Sunstein (Harvard)

Andrew Shryock (Mich)

T

Grant Tapsell (Oxford)

Liba Taub (Cambridge)

John B. Taylor (Stanford)

Philip E. Tetlock (Penn)

Rosalind Thomas (Oxford)

Chris Thornhill (Manchester)

Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)

Michael Tomasello (Duke)

Robert Tombs (Cambridge)

Camilla Townsend (Rutgers)

Richard Tuck [Harvard)

Jonathan H. Turner (UCal)

Stephen P. Turner (USF)

U

Jason Ur (Harvard)

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia)

V

Malcolm Vale (Oxford)

Mauricio Viroli (Princeton)

Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia)

W

Klaus Wagensonner (Yale)

Jeremy Waldron (NYU)

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge)

John Watts (Oxford)

Hans van Wees (Kings)

Bruce Wells (Texas Austin)

Brett E. Whalen (UNC)

Laurence Whitehead (Oxford)

Magnus Widell (Liverpool)

Chris Wickham (Oxford/Birmingham)

Harco Willems (Leuven)

Peter Wilson (Oxford)

James Whitman (Yale)

John Witte (Emory)

David Wooton (York)

Cornelia Wunsch (Leipzig)

Y

Michael Yahuda (LSE)

Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford)

Z

Dingxin Zhao (Chicago)