Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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. Former directors also include Claude Steele (2004-2009), who became Provost of Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley; and Sarah Soule (2023-2025), who became Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The CASBS buildings were designed by William Wurster, a local architect who served as dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. 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 • James M. Freeman • Harold Garfinkel • Henry Louis Gates • Ralph W. Gerard • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • • 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 ==