About the Center
The Center for Social Sciences is established in an extensively renovated Dalton Hall which opened fall 2006 to bring four Bryn Mawr departments in the social sciences together under a single roof for the first time. It's denizens busied themselves with creating a new conceptual space as well. A Steering Committee for a new social-sciences center has outlined a schedule of events that aims to draw attention to research and curricula in the social sciences at Bryn Mawr and generate ideas for the Center's future directions. The Center has already sponsored several events focused on this fall’s election, and the Steering Committee plans numerous events for the remainder of the academic year.
The Center, which replaces the Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, is meant to respond to the need for stronger linkages and cooperation among the social sciences at Bryn Mawr, organizers say. "Uniting the social sciences under an inclusive methodological umbrella, the Center will provide opportunities for consideration of broad substantive foci within the fundamentally comparative nature of the social-science disciplines, while training different disciplinary lenses on given issues," the Center's mission statement states.