Panel Discussion | Social Science in the Public Sphere: Public Engagement & Alt-Ac work in 2025

This panel will bring together social scientists working both in and out of academe on issues of high public salience. Dr. Kevin Morris, Senior Research Fellow and Voting Policy Scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice, is visiting campus for the SBS Democracy in Troubled Times Series. He will join UMass faculty  for a panel discussion moderated by ISSR Director of Faculty Research, Libby Sharrow.

Panelists will reflect on their career paths and evolving orientations to the role of social science in public life. This panel will appeal to graduate students considering future career paths both within and beyond the academy, and faculty contemplating their roles in public-facing social science in 2025.

This event is co-sponsored by the UMass Public Engagement Project.

Dr. Morris will give a talk on April 22^nd in the Democracy in Troubled Times series at 11:30am in the ILC Communications Hub.