Centers and Institutes

The University of Chicago is renowned for its interdisciplinary culture, in which faculty, students, and visiting scholars can gain innovative insights through multiple, varying perspectives. More than 150 institutes and centers across the University are an integral means for those connections. 

Those connected with the Division of the Social Sciences include: 

Center for Early Childhood Research
Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR)
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) 
Center for Practical Wisdom
Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS)
Center for Radical Innovation and Social Change 
Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD)
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
Chicago Center on Democracy
Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)
Chicago Science of Learning Center
France Chicago Center
Institute for Mind and Biology
Katz Center for Mexican Studies
Knowledge Lab
Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
Neubauer Collegium for Culture & Society 
Social Sciences Research Center
Thirty Million Words Center for Early Learning and Public Health

Faculty, researchers, and students in the Division of the Social Sciences also engage with centers in other divisions and schools, including:

Division of Arts & Humanities

Center for East Asian Studies
Center for Eastern European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Committee on South Asian Studies

Harris School of Public Policy
Center for Effective Government
Center for Health and Social Sciences
Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility

NORC
Population Research Center