Partners and Collaborators

The School of Human Evolution and Social Change works to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration, bringing a wide range of perspectives and knowledge to bear on important research questions and issues. Toward this end the school supports a number of centers and institutes devoted to interdisciplinary research and learning. The school also continues to collaborate with other ASU institutes, departments and programs with overlapping research interests.

SHESC Partners

• ArchNet offers a virtual library of archaeology.
• Center for American Archeology discovers and disseminates the unwritten story of earlier Americans.
• Center for Bioarchaeological Research is dedicated to discovering and communicating new knowledge about past peoples.
• Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity leverages the emerging field of complex systems to foster interdisciplinary research on fundamental questions of social life.
• Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) addresses global and regional ecological, economic and societal issues in an effort to sustain life on Earth.
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) in Neural and Musculoskeletal Adaptations in Form and Function provides multidisciplinary graduate training in deciphering complex phenomena in neuroscience, biomechanics, rehabilitation and musculoskeletal morphology.
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) in Urban Ecology provides multidisciplinary graduate training in urban ecology.   
• Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM) is an archaeological research unit that serves archeological and cultural resource management needs of the public and private sectors while providing education and research opportunities.
• Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium is a group of researchers, educators and professionals working to improve the way agent based models are developed, shared and utilized.
• School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines to develop practical solutions to some of the most pressing environmental, economic and social challenges of sustainability.
• South Phoenix Collaborative uses social science approaches to understand and address health and environmental challenges in the South Mountain community.

SHESC Collaborators at ASU

• African and African American Studies
• Andes and Amazon Field School 
• Asian Research, Center for 
• Barrett, the Honors College
• Business, W. P. Carey School of 
• Computing and Informatics, School of
• Decision Center for a Desert City  
• Decision Theatre
• Economics, Department of
• Global Studies, School of 
• History, Department of
• Humanities Research, Institute for
• Justice and Social Inquiry, School of 
• Life Sciences, School of 
• Nutrition, ASU at the Polytechnic Campus Department of
• Religion & Conflict, Center for the Study of
• Southeast Asian Studies, Program for 
• Social & Behavioral Sciences, ASU at the West Campus Department of
• Social and Family Dynamics, School of 
• Social Science Research, Institute for
• Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Department of