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United States · United StatesEconomist and public policy expert Sheldon Danziger, currently the president of the Russell Sage Foundation, will become the president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on September 1. He succeeds Marta Tienda, who has led the AAPSS since 2021.
(Photo: Russell Sage Foundation) Danziger is Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Pub…See the Story
Russell Sage’s Sheldon Danziger to Head AAPSS

Portland, Oregon · PortlandTAKE A STROLL THROUGH 60 YEARS OF SAGE’S HISTORY In 2025 Sage is celebrating our origin story. When she was 24 years old, Sara Miller McCune, a female entrepreneur, founded a publishing company with an urban studies journal and $250 from selling an air conditioner, and called it Sage. Origin stories are often ceremonial and unexpected, and only in retrospect show the pivotal significance of their moment. Sage in 1965 was like that. My unexpected…Read Article