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Study with leading scholars and public intellectuals committed to expanding the boundaries of social thought, in one of the world’s hubs of scholarship and culture, New York City.

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Participate in academic exploration, conduct research, and engage in dialogue with leading thinkers as you reframe local and global challenges at our centers and institutes.
Progressive since our founding, The New School for Social Research has upheld The New School's legendary tradition of challenging orthodoxy.

Our graduate programs in the social sciences, philosophy, and history foster a rigorous environment of engaged academic scholarship and public discourse. Study alongside prominent faculty to shape the intellectual future of the school and the entire university, and be a force of new thought, knowledge, and ideas in the world.
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Applications for fall 2023 are open!

All applicants are eligible for merit-based scholarships. More than 90 percent of new full-time master’s degree students receive merit scholarships, which average 49 percent of the cost of tuition.

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New & Noteworthy

A selection of recent news and announcements about The New School for Social Research.

Alum Jordi Graupera Pays Tribute to Richard J. Bernstein

In spring 2022, Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, continued investigating the questions he’d been asking his whole career—about right, wrong, and what we owe to one another. He died shortly after. Jordi Graupera, PhD Philosophy 2018, attended his final courses and wrote about them for the New Yorker.

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WATCH: Clara Mattei Launches Her New Book

In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press, 2022), political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and capitalism itself—in times of social upheaval from below.

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Anthropologist Katharina Schramm Is the 2022-2023 Heuss Professor

The Heuss Professorship brings a prominent German academic to NSSR each year. Schramm, a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, focuses on political anthropology and critical race studies, science and technology studies, and critical heritage studies.

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Departments

Anthropology

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Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism

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Economics

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Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Historical Studies

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Liberal Studies

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Philosophy

MA, PhD

Politics

MA, PhD

Psychology

MA, PhD

Sociology

MA, PhD
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Leaders in their fields of study, our faculty shape public debate, advance academic research, and push the boundaries of social sciences, philosophy, and history around the world..

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Scholars & Work

At NSSR, critical thinkers from around the world break new ground, challenge the status quo, and reshape contemporary thought to address urgent social and political problems. Explore their work.

Deva Woodly, professor of politics at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and The New School for Social Research, discusses how dissonance is not just a part of democracy, but crucial to its existence.

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Ray Acheson (MA Politics ’14) is a member of a Nobel Prize-winning group

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Thursday, March 2 to Saturday, May 6

Countdown to Commencement 2023

Countdown to Commencement is a time to celebrate the many accomplishments of our graduating students, and to help you prepare for their successful transition into The New School's alumni community. St ...
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Monday, March 27, 9:00 AM

Beyond Neoliberalism and “Neo-Illiberalism": Economic Policy and Performance for Sustainable Democracy

The global political retreat from liberal democracy and the rise of authoritarianism is well documented, but the economic causes and consequences of this “backsliding” have received much less attentio ...
Glassbox Theater, Room I 100

Monday, March 27, 11:00 AM

ONLINE | 10 Week Seminar: Decolonizing and Globalizing LGBTQ+ Studies

Free and Open to Everyone Every Monday, March 27 – May 29, 2022; 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern TimeHosted on Zoom – Register for link Description: This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to LGBTQ+ ...
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Monday, March 27, 4:00 PM

Smuggling as a Material Critique of Borders

By drawing on ethnographic and historical accounts of migrant smuggling and forgery from the smugglers’ perspectives, this talk shifts the focus from the hegemonic understanding of smuggling as a crim ...
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Monday, March 27, 6:00 PM

Anna Loretoni "The rise of the alt-right and gender rights regression"

Title: "The rise of the alt-right and gender rights regression" presented by Professor Anna Loretoni. Abstract: The rise of the alt-right politics and the illiberal democracies are producing not only ...
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