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
Adam Cifu: Can we learn how to understand each other while we disagree over pandemic issues?
May 24, 2022
IFK Faculty Adam Cifu for the Chicago Tribune
In the Media
Workshop co-hosted by Claudia Brittenham offers students the opportunity to study rare documents from New Spain
May 24, 2022
Young scholars visited the archives at the Newberry Library in Chicago led by Seonaid Valiant from the ASU Library and IFK Faculty Claudia Brittenham
Features
Big Brains Podcast: Is scientific progress slowing? with James Evans
May 17, 2022
Scholar examines how researchers could generate greater innovation and discovery
Features
Big Brains Podcast: Shannon Lee Dawdy on how death in the US is changing
May 17, 2022
From green burials to DIY funerals, understand how death in America is changing with Shannon Lee Dawdy (Ep 84). Anthropologist examines what our rituals reveal about society, especially after 9/11.
News
James Evans’ Research Featured in “The Cost of Zoom”
April 28, 2022
All those Zoom meetings could be stunting innovation at work.
Features
Academic Spotlight: Katherine Buse
April 21, 2022
Learn more about Katherine Buse's work including her book project and classesIn the Media
Will Russian officials be prosecuted for war crimes? It’s complicated.
April 19, 2022
IFK Faculty and UChicago Law Professor Tom Ginsburg on whether Russian officials will be prosecuted for war crimesIn the Media
Austan Goolsbee on the Fed’s Fight against Inflation
April 12, 2022
Austan Goolsbee, the Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama White House and IFK Faculty, joined "Bloomberg Markets: America" to preview the US Inflation data
Announcements
Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series 2022 Hugo Awards Finalist
April 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer's series Terra Ignota is a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Series!
In the Media
How the Ukraine War has restarted the Space Race between Russia and the rest of the world
March 21, 2022
Jordan Bimm comments on the politics of space in Fortune MagazineFeatures
Critical Periods in Science and the Science of Critical Periods: Canine Behavior in America - Brad Bolman
March 11, 2022
IFK postdoc Brad Bolman has a new article in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte on eugenics and the history of canine behavior studies in the United States
In the Media
On International Space Station, War In Ukraine Has Put ‘Crescendo’ On Already-Rising Tensions Between U.S. And Russia
March 01, 2022
Jordan Bimm discusses the history of Russia/U.S. space collaboration with CBS ChicagoAnnouncements
“The Maintenance of Ambiguity in Martian Exobiology”, co-authored by Jordan Bimm
March 01, 2022
New article co-authored by Jordan Bimm in the journal Social Studies of Science (SSS) about how astrobiologists sustain their scientific search for life in the cosmos without ever finding any
WIRED: Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
February 11, 2022
"The past we think we know is wrong and so is the future." IFK Faculty Ada Palmer talks about dystopias, her science-fiction series Terra Ignota, and more with Wired Magazine.Announcements
Ada Palmer presenting at Boskone, New England’s oldest science fiction convention
February 11, 2022
Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England.