Cold War Social Science

MARK SOLOVEY is an assistant professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, and for 2011-2012 a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on the political, institutional, and intellectual history of the social sciences in the United States since WWII. He has several articles in scholarly journals, including Annals of Science, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Radical History Review, and Social Studies of Science. He is the author of the tentatively titled Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America(forthcoming). HAMILTON CRAVENS is a professor emeritus of history at Iowa State University, writes about science in American culture and the tensions between expertise and democracy. He has authored or edited a dozen books, including The Triumph of Evolution(1978, 1988), Before Head Start(1993, 2003), The Social Sciences Go To Washington(2005), Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in America(2010), as well as about sixty articles and chapters in books. He is wrapping up a new book, Imagining The Good Society: The Social Sciences in the American Past and Present(forthcoming, 2012).

Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America; T.M.Porter Cold War Social Science: Spectre, Reality, or Useful Concept?; M.Solovey   PART I: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION  The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54; D.C.Engerman   Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking; K.Tolon   'It was All Connected': Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America; J.Martin-Nielsen   Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard's Department of Social Relations; J.Isaac   PART II: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Producing Reason; H.Heyck   Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era; H.Cravens   From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex; J.Rohde   Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship; H.Brick   PART III: HUMAN NATURE Maintaining Humans; E.Jones-Imhotep   Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War; M.Bycroft   An Anthropologist on TV: Ashley Montagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945-1960; N.Weidman Cold War Emotions: The War over Human Nature; M.Vicedo