2023 Impact Factor: 2.1
2023 Google Scholar h5-index: 33
ISSN: 0011-5266
E-ISSN: 1548-6192
Editor in Chief: Phyllis S. Bendell
Drawing on the nation’s most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, as well as the professions and public life, Dædalus, the open access Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explores the frontiers of knowledge and issues of public importance. Recent issues have examined Access to Justice; Inequality as a Multidimensional Process; Science and the Legal System; Why Jazz Still Matters; Political Leadership; Ethics, Technology, and War; Russia Beyond Putin; and The Prospects and Limits of Deliberative Democracy.
Current Issue
The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East & North Africa
EDITORS: Lisa Anderson, Rabab El-Mahdi & Seteney Shami
For decades, social scientists who work in and on the Middle East have confronted the ethical complexities of working with research participants, partners, and colleagues who are at risk. Conflict, autocracy, censorship, poverty, inequality, disciplinary imperatives, and institutional interests all shape research opportunities and agendas in ways that may imperil careers, livelihoods, and even lives.
The Spring 2025 issue of Dædalus explores how ethical standards can be developed and applied to improve the quality of social science research, particularly in contexts of contention and duress. Drawing on the experiences of an international group of scholars working in and on the Middle East and North Africa, the essays reveal both the ethical challenges and the transformative possibilities of social research.
“The Ethics of Social Research” offers critical insight and practical guidance for anyone invested in making social inquiry more ethical, inclusive, effective, and constructive—within the Middle East and North Africa and around the world.