Human Centered

Elizabeth Clemens ties American state-building to private civic organizations, arguing that gifts and volunteer networks helped create national identity from the Civil War through World War II.

David Card explains how his 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics grew out of empirical labor economics, including the Mariel Boatlift and a New Jersey minimum wage study that compared fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Economist Glenn Loury reflects on his career, from technical economics to public intellectualism, discussing racial inequality, institutional cultures, and intellectual humility in a candid interview with former student Rohini Samanathan.

Human Centered’s “Toward Cross-disciplinary Consensus About Our (Mis)Information Environment” brings together Phil Howard of Oxford and Angela Aristidou, a University College London fellow and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence contributor, to discuss AI governance and the information environment.

Youngmi Kim describes how undisclosed digital ads can reach voters differently by race, age, geography, and prior turnout, using eScope to track exposure in real time.

Ciaran Budak, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, says her CASBIS project examined display advertising as a monetization channel for low-credibility news sites.

Human Centered opens with a stark question: whether the atmosphere can still be restored enough to keep the earth habitable.

Elizabeth Loftus describes how her work on human memory moved from a Stanford CASBS fellowship to decades of research on the misinformation effect, false memories, and eyewitness testimony.

Paul Milgrom traces his 2020 Nobel Prize work on auction theory, then spends much of the conversation on the organizational economics he developed with John Roberts during his 1991-92 CASBIS fellowship.

Jonathan Jansen says he writes his Thursday column for a general South African audience, Song for Sarah for mothers on the Cape Flats, and Corrupted for academic readers with a broader public in mind.

Human Centered frames Alejandro Portes as the 'Grand Master of the Sociology of Immigration' while René D.

A panel of experts debates how to boost worker influence in the U.S., exploring outdated labor laws, the tension between voice and power, and innovative solutions like sectoral bargaining and works councils.

Robert Cohan, a leading international relations scholar, discusses his concepts of interdependence, sensitivity, and vulnerability in the context of climate change policy.

Barry Eichengreen joins Stefan Link on Human Centered.

Human-Centered sits with Colin Kammerer at the boundary of behavior and brain.

Human-Centered opens on the gap people feel between lived experience and academic abstractions or policy talk.

Human Centered goes live for the first time.

Ruth Milkman joins Human Centered for a conversation about labor, power, and what makes worker resistance possible.

Human Centered opens by asking what makes a protest movement actually work.

Human Centered records a live conversation from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University with Alison Gopnik, Margaret Levy, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Mitchell Stevens talks with Allison Pugh about connective labor.

Human Centered revisits Edward Said in the CASBIS setting where much of *Orientalism* was written.

The conversation begins with a premise that is simple on the surface and a little unsettling underneath: AI might be raised rather than merely built.

Human Centered’s episode with 2023-24 CASBIS fellow David Moore centers on DARPA’s Machine Common Sense Program, which ended in February 2025 after teams tried to build “artificial babies” and test them in artificial worlds.

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Frederick Cooper, a professor emeritus at New York University and a three-time CASBIS fellow, is presented on Human Centered as a historian of African history, colonial imperialism, global history, and post-colonial theory.

Michelle Lamont frames Human Centered around her book Seeing Others, which argues that “recognition” is a way to build a more inclusive and equitable society.

Rebecca Slayton, a Cornell University science and technology studies professor and 2022-23 CASBIS fellow, talks with former New York Times tech reporter John Markoff about the history of computer security and the rise of cybersecurity expertise.

Tanya Luhrmann describes how a psychologist at CASBIS told her she had "anecdotes to tell," pushing her toward experiments with 130 participants, 30 psychological scales, and randomized prayer practices.