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]
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David Abulafia (Cambridge)
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Peter Bowler (Queen’s)
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Robert Brenner (UCLA)
Alain Bresson (Chicago)
Glenn Burgess (Hull)
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Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)
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Richard Epstein (NYU)
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Brian M. Fagan (UCal)
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Roland Fletcher (Sydney)
Paul Fouracre (Manchester)
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Anthony Giddens (LSE)
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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)
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Timothy Harrison (Toronto)
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Russell Hardin (NYU)
Duncan Hardy (Florida)
James S. Hart, Jr. (Oklahoma)
Peter Heather (Kings)
Andre Heller (Bamberg)
Stephen Holmes (NYU)
Christopher Hood (Oxford)
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Wendy James (Oxford)
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Daniel Kahneman (Princeton) (d.2024)
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Melissa Lane (Princeton)
Steffen Terp Laursen (Aarhus)
Jonathan Lear (Chicago)
Mark Lehner (GWU)
Steven Levitt (Chicago)
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Mark Lewis (Stanford)
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Debin Ma (Oxford)
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Ezra Marcus (Haifa)
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Michael Mann (UCLA)
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Elizabeth A Meyer (Virginia)
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Rory Naismith (Cambridge)
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Reviel Netz (Stanford)
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Josiah Ober (Stanford)
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Stephan Palmie (Chicago)
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Robert Plomin (Kings)
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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)
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Judith Scheele (Oxford)
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Ingo Schrakamp (Berlin)
Glenn M. Schwartz (John Hopkins)
David Sedley (Cambridge)
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Steven M. Shavell (Harvard)
Stephen Shennan (UCL)
Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
Hannah Skoda (Oxford)
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David L. Smith (Cambridge)
David Sneath (Cambridge)
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Andrew Mark Spencer (Cambridge)
George Steinmetz (Mich)
Roel Sterckx (Cambridge)
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Münster)
Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
Andrew Shryock (Mich)
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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)
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Jason Ur (Harvard)
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia)
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Malcolm Vale (Oxford)
Mauricio Viroli (Princeton)
Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia)
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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)
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Michael Yahuda (LSE)
Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford)
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Dingxin Zhao (Chicago)