Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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News Release issued by the MIT Office of Public Relations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The collection comprises records produced by the Office of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1990 to 1993.

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This collection contains two reports produced by the The Gender Equity Committee for the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) between 2001 and 2002.

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This collection contains records produced during the tenures of three Deans of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Material types include correspondence, calendars and appointment notebooks, planning records, department profiles, and fundraising documents. These records date from approximately the 1950s through the 2010s.

Scope and Contents The MIT and Slavery class project website hosts information on the efforts to study the Institute's ties to slavery through an undergraduate research course. The website describes results of findings and information on similar initiatives at other colleges and universities. In 2017, the MIT and Slavery project began looking into the Institute's history with slavery as per the suggestion of professor Craig Wilder to President Rafael Reif. The class first met in fall 2017 and is led by Wilder...

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This collection contains an archived version of the MIT and Slavery class project website, which hosts information on the efforts to study the Institute's ties to slavery through an undergraduate research course. The website describes results of findings and information on similar initiatives at other colleges and universities.

Scope and Contents The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) website provides information about the School's mission, research, academics, publications, resources, and general information about the School. The School's portfolio includes: international studies, linguistics, comparative media studies, economics, literature, anthropology, digital humanities, philosophy, global studies and languages, music and theater arts, writing, political science, security studies, women's and gender...