Formation of Knowledge Thesis and Dissertation Awards
Honoring the best student scholarship on any thesis:
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related to societal and historical influences shaping the formation of knowledge
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that has implications for the formation of knowledge and interrogates traditional ways of knowing
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most effectively crosses and bridges disciplinary and divisional boundaries in its research, argument, and conclusions
Open to UChicago students graduating at the end of the 2021-22 academic year and
judged by a panel of Institute Faculty.
For information and application processes, visit here.
In the Media
Listen to “Pearson and Morant: Biometric Racialism” with Dr. Iris Clever
March 08, 2021
In the Media
Watch: “Scenario and Security in Climate Change Documentaries” with Dr. Thomas Pringle
March 04, 2021
Blogs
Who Unearths the Past?: On the Work of The Dig
February 09, 2021
Joe Stadolnik watches The Dig, and sheds light on an obscure excavator of the past unlikely to inspire a Netflix movie
In the Media
Watch: “CAPErs: Computer-Aided Philosophical Experienc(r)s” with Dr. Thomas Pashby
February 06, 2021
In the Media
Watch: “Island Time: Speed, Music, and Modernity in St. Kitts and Nevis” with Prof. Jessica Baker
December 14, 2020
In the Media
Watch: “Media, Environment, and Risk” Course Trailer with Dr. Thomas Pringle
December 04, 2020
Announcements
Watch: “DATA: History and Knowledge” Teaser with Dr. Campolo and Dr. Klimchynskaya
October 20, 2020
In the Media
The Doctor From Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars
July 28, 2020
SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow Jordan Bimm chronicles the controversial history behind Mars Jars and NASA's Cold War personnel.
In the Media
What we lose when we turn our backs on persuasion
July 28, 2020
SIFK Director Shadi Bartsch and psychologist Pamela Paresky tackle the nuances of persuasion, argumentation, and seduction in the latest edition of Forward's opinion series, "On Persuasion".
Features
Helping Hands: Uncovering an Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manual
May 28, 2020
Margaret Carlyle writes on an 18th Century midwifery manual for McGill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Blogs
Covid-19 and the Long History of Racially Maldistributed Mortality
May 26, 2020
Alexander Mazzaferro investigates America's long history of racial disparity and its impact on the nation's COVID-19 response.
Features
Famine Is a Choice
May 11, 2020
SIFK Postdoctoral Fellow Yan Slobodkin writes for Slate: "One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability."
Announcements
Check out our Latest Newsletter!
May 08, 2020
See what's happening this quarter at SIFK, and hear what our faculty has to say about the transition to online learning.
Blogs
Knowing Uncertainty: How Science Fiction Helps us Make Sense of the Pandemic
May 04, 2020
Anastasia Klimchynskaya draws parallels between Sci-Fi and our current world to show how literature can help us understand COVID-19 and our uncertain future.