“You can imagine how if we wanted to create algorithms that could help inform judicial decisions or credit scoring systems or employment decisions and we did so by training those algorithms on existing, human-made decisions in these areas, then all of the biases underlying those human decisions would inform the algorithmic decisions as well”
Read More >“I think many of us have been coasting on the uncritically positive reputation that peer review has among both scientists and the public – as if peer review is an almost magical process. Showing how the sausage is made will hopefully put some pressure on peer review to come closer to living up to its reputation.”
Read More >September 20th marks the four-year anniversary since Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico and other regions of the Caribbean archipelago. The most impacted communities continue in their ongoing recovery and mutual …
Read More >Series editor Rickie Solinger joined us for an interview on how the Reproductive Justice Series came about, the impact and continued relevance of the series, and the defining motivations in her own work. Rickie …
Read More >This Sunday, September 19th at 3:00pm EDT, join the National Women’s History Museum as we honor Justice Ginsburg’s life and legacy with Amanda L. Tyler, Dr. Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes.
Read More >Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos joins in the celebration and critical reflection of Mexico’s bicentennial of independence. Hence we are glad to announce the forthcoming Thematic Section “Bicentennial Mexican Independence: New Critical …
Read More >Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Atelier is a book series in anthropology that takes a ground-up approach to the acquisition and publication of new ethnographic works. Curating a cohort of scholars committed to the idea …
Read More >“CPCS is distinct in that it covers a variety of countries and regions around the globe, which gives it a broader frame of comparative analysis than many regional journals. This is a perspective that I believe is critically important for understanding any country-specific phenomenon.”
Read More >Our authors reflect on what twenty years of war has meant and how American militarism impacts both our wars abroad and conflicts and ideologies at home.
Read More >By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe Before the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate …
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