The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences CASBS is an interdisciplinary research institution at Stanford

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research institution at Stanford University that incubates initiatives designed to address major questions about human behavior and society, and offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying social, behavioral, and policy issues. Fellows are drawn from a variety of fields, including "the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology". In recent decades, the Center has also hosted legal scholars, humanists, public policy practitioners, philosophers, and technical experts among others. CASBS fellows over the years include 30 Nobel laureates, 52 MacArthur fellows, and one U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Abbreviation	CASBS
Founded	1954
Purpose	Research center
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California
Location	Stanford University
Director	Sarah Soule
Website	https://casbs.stanford.edu/

It is one of the (currently ten) members of Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS). Its campus is 19,600 square feet (1,820 m²) with ample space for hosting groups of researchers. It has 54 studies, meeting rooms, a conference hall, a kitchen, and dining room with a private chef.

Sarah Soule started as director of the center in September 2023.

History

The center was founded in 1954 by the Ford Foundation. The American educator Ralph W. Tyler served as the center's first director from 1954 to 1966. Political scientist Margaret Levi was the director of the center from 2014 until 2022.

The CASBS buildings were designed by William Wurster, a local architect.

Earlier, fellow selection was a closed process; new fellows were nominated by former fellows. However, since 2007, the center opened up the fellow selection process to applications. In 2008, it became an integral part of Stanford University and functions as one of the university's independent research institutes.

Fellows

Each class of fellows numbers about 40 people. In the first 40 years of its existence it supported about 2,000 scientists and scholars.

Notable fellows

The institute has been home to notable scholars, including:

Paul S. Appelbaum
Alexander Astin
Leora Auslander
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Anthony Bebbington
Jamshed Bharucha
Derek Bok
Kenneth Boulding
Justine Cassell
Ruth Chang
Dorothy Cheney
David Clark
Leda Cosmides
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
Yehuda Elkana
Robert H. Frank
Harold Garfinkel
Henry Louis Gates
Ralph W. Gerard
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Mark Granovetter
Adriaan de Groot
Lani Guinier
Leopold H. Haimson
Eszter Hargittai
John Haugeland
Kieran Healy
Miles Hewstone
Douglas Hofstadter
Philip N. Howard
Katherine Isbister
Murray Jarvik
Lee Jussim
Daniel Kahneman
Robert Kates
Elihu Katz
Thomas Kuhn
Terra Lawson-Remer
Catharine MacKinnon
Michael Macy
George Mandler
Paul Milgrom
Elijah Millgram
Ernest Nagel
Rodney Needham
Don Norman
Robert Nozick
Margaret O'Mara
Karl H. Pribram
Anatol Rapoport
John Rawls
Julie Reuben
Edward Said
Richard Sennett
Andrea diSessa
Bradd Shore
Sidney Siegel
Neil Smelser
Vernon L. Smith
Richard C. Snyder
Thomas Sowell
Herman D. Stein
Li Chenyang
Deborah Tannen
Charles Tilly
John Tooby
Edward Tufte
Billie Lee Turner II
France Winddance Twine
Vanessa C. Tyson
Philip E. Vernon
Gordon S. Wood
Irvin Yalom
Benjamin Mako Hill

References

"History". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
Debora Hammond (2003). The science of synthesis: exploring the social implications of general systems theory. University Press of Colorado, 2003. p.168.
"CASBS website". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
"Facilities". CASBS. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
Sciences, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral (February 1, 2023). "Organizational Behavior Scholar Sarah Soule Named Next CASBS Director". Social Science Space. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
"The Early Years and Mission". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen (2004). Scholarly environments: centres of learning and institutional contexts, 1560-1960. Peeters Publishers, p.173
"Leadership History". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
"Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Seeks fellowship applications". Stanford Report. April 9, 2008.
"Centers, Laboratories, and Institutes - Stanford University". exploredegrees.stanford.edu.
Stanford University News Service (415) 723-2558, Ralph Tyler, one of century's foremost educators, dies at 91 Archived February 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
LEDA COSMIDES (PDF), Center for Evolutionary Psychology, retrieved June 24, 2017
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1963). The political systems of empires. p. LXX
Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss (1963). Durkheim/Mauss: Primitive Classification. p. XLVIII
Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, retrieved August 28, 2012
Edmund Janes James, Roland Post Falkner, Henry Rogers Seager (1964). Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Volumes 351-356. p.195
JOHN TOOBY (PDF), Center for Evolutionary Psychology, retrieved June 24, 2017
"Past Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Scholars (Class of 1961-62)". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford University. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2016.

External links

Center for Advanced Study website

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List of CASBS Fellows

[1] "History". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.

[2] Debora Hammond (2003). The science of synthesis: exploring the social implications of general systems theory. University Press of Colorado, 2003. p.168.

[3] "CASBS website". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved February 9, 2025.

[:0-4] "Facilities". CASBS. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.

[:2-5] Sciences, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral (February 1, 2023). "Organizational Behavior Scholar Sarah Soule Named Next CASBS Director". Social Science Space. Retrieved March 8, 2023.

[6] "The Early Years and Mission". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.

[7] Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen (2004). Scholarly environments: centres of learning and institutional contexts, 1560-1960. Peeters Publishers, p.173

[8] "Leadership History". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved October 8, 2023.

[9] "Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Seeks fellowship applications". Stanford Report. April 9, 2008.

[10] "Centers, Laboratories, and Institutes - Stanford University". exploredegrees.stanford.edu.

[11] Stanford University News Service (415) 723-2558, Ralph Tyler, one of century's foremost educators, dies at 91 Archived February 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[12] LEDA COSMIDES (PDF), Center for Evolutionary Psychology, retrieved June 24, 2017

[13] Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1963). The political systems of empires. p. LXX

[14] Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss (1963). Durkheim/Mauss: Primitive Classification. p. XLVIII

[15] Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, retrieved August 28, 2012

[16] Edmund Janes James, Roland Post Falkner, Henry Rogers Seager (1964). Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Volumes 351-356. p.195

[17] JOHN TOOBY (PDF), Center for Evolutionary Psychology, retrieved June 24, 2017

[18] "Past Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Scholars (Class of 1961-62)". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford University. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2016.