CNISS, part of the Washington University in St. Louis community, fosters and encourages interdisciplinary education and research in new institutional social sciences. It was founded in 1999 by Douglass C. North, Ph.D., co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Dr. North is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Center promotes an ongoing research program involving undergraduate and graduate students, together with junior and senior faculty of Washington University, and scholars from around the world. This program will evolve around four main components: an undergraduate 'minor' program in new institutional social sciences; a complimentary certificate program for Ph.D. students; a summer school; and a research center that will help focus and fund research of undergraduate honors theses, graduate dissertations, visiting scholars, Washington University faculty, and related research around the world.
Currently led by Itai Sened, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences, the Center supports diversified research into the evolution of social, political, and economic institutions that shape societies and economies around the world. CNISS will encourage the integration of what is best in the individual bodies of the separate social sciences into one body of knowledge that will allow us to better explain, understand, and solve the problems of complex societies.
The Center promotes an ongoing research program involving undergraduate and graduate students, together with junior and senior faculty of Washington University, and scholars from around the world. This program will evolve around four main components: an undergraduate 'minor' program in new institutional social sciences; a complimentary certificate program for Ph.D. students; a summer school; and a research center that will help focus and fund research of undergraduate honors theses, graduate dissertations, visiting scholars, Washington University faculty, and related research around the world.
Currently led by Itai Sened, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences, the Center supports diversified research into the evolution of social, political, and economic institutions that shape societies and economies around the world. CNISS will encourage the integration of what is best in the individual bodies of the separate social sciences into one body of knowledge that will allow us to better explain, understand, and solve the problems of complex societies.