The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility provides a forum for research and scholarship, policy debate, and discussion with activists and artists on issues of global migration and mobility and their economic impact, political consequences, and meaning for citizenship and identity.

The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) is an economic policy research think tank where New School economists and researchers debate the role government can and should play in the economy to raise living standards, create economic security, and attain full employment.

At the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, faculty and students come together for interdisciplinary discussions about theoretical approaches to-and analytic methods for-the study of capitalism in its myriad forms.

The Initiative for the Study of Power, Politics, and Organizing in the United States (ISPPO) seeks to inductively examine three main topics: the history and consequences of intersecting and compounding power asymmetry; the nature, purpose, and capacities of politics; and the framework, potentialities, and outcomes of political organizing.

The Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute is the new intellectual center for faculty and students working on these closely intertwined topics across The New School. The institute provides a home for diverse forms of scholarship, creative practice, and public programming.

The Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities convenes graduate students and distinguished scholars from The New School, the University of Bonn (Germany), and other institutions for five-day intensive seminars on pressing questions in contemporary philosophy and the humanities.

Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism project brings together faculty and students across The New School interested in exploring theoretical and political concerns associated with radical democratic and anticolonial traditions. 

The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought (GIDEST) incubates advanced research at the intersection of social theory and design, fostering dialogue on related themes across the university.

The Safran Center for Psychological Services provides clinical training in psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic assessment to Clinical Psychology doctoral students at The New School for Social Research, and offers low-fee psychological services to New School students and the surrounding community.

The New University in Exile Consortium (New UIE Consortium), is an initiative created by The New School to confront today’s surging threats to scholars around the world; it consists of a group of like-minded colleges and universities, each of which is committed to hosting at least one endangered scholar.

The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) offers unique opportunities for global advanced research and cross-cultural collaboration. Its projects address democratic transitions, the workings of collective memory, and-increasingly important in times of massive migrations-the development of a "culture of borderlands" and an "ethos of border thinking" in order to promote a general openness to difference, hybridity, and diversity in civil society and civic life.  

The Sandor Ferenczi Center sponsors lectures, conferences, and workshops relevant to Sandor Ferenczi's legacy of clinical innovation and contributes to the ongoing vitality of psychoanalysis as a cultural, intellectual, and therapeutic discipline.

The Center for Attachment Research (CAR) engages in the application of attachment theory to clinical and developmental research questions concerning child, parent, and family development.

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) provides graduate students and faculty from around the world with the opportunity to work closely with some of the most distinguished thinkers shaping the course of contemporary social inquiry.

The Janey Program in Latin American Studies supports fellowships for students from Latin America and the Caribbean pursuing graduate studies at The New School, summer fellowships for fieldwork and research in Latin America and the Caribbean, an annual conference, lectures, and occasional visits to The New School by scholars from Latin America.

The Center for Research with Infants and Toddlers explores the development of conceptual understanding in infants and young children, focusing on how they come to make sense of the social worlds around them.

The NSSR Memory Studies Network brings together leading scholars in the field and graduate students from different parts of the university-social science, arts and design, and humanities-creating a special space for interdisciplinary discussion, scholarly innovation, and international exchanges of ideas, thus advancing discourse in the field.

The Center for Public Scholarship seeks to promote free inquiry and public discussion, bringing the best scholarship in and outside the academy to bear on the critical and contested issues of our times.

Hannah Arendt, widely acknowledged today as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, taught at The New School as a university professor from 1967 until her death in 1975. The Hannah Arendt Center is dedicated to preserving Arendt's legacy and fostering the kind of participation in public life she exemplified.

Established in 1966 in memory of Alfred Schutz, the Husserl Archives promotes and facilitates research on the work of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl and phenomenological philosophy.