Fine Fellows
Two IPR faculty join prestigious scholarly bodies

Summer 2003, Volume 25, Number 1

Benjamin Page

This spring, IPR faculty members Thomas Cook and Benjamin Page were honored with membership in two of the nation’s leading scholarly societies.
IPR Faculty Associate Page was one of seven Northwestern faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May. The AAAS was founded in 1780 and is one of the nation’s most prestigious learned societies, with 4,300 members, including more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Fellows are chosen in a highly selective process for outstanding contributions to their respective fields.

Page, a political scientist and the Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, is known for his work in public opinion and policymaking, empirical democratic theory, political economy, policy formation, the presidency, and American foreign policy. He is currently studying the mass media, the role of international law in American foreign policy, and public policy and inequality in the context of globalization.

He is author of a number of articles, including “Effects of Public Opinion on Policy” and “What Moves Public Opinion,” both in the American Political Science Review, and seven books, including “Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy” (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and “What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality” (with James Simmons, University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Other IPR faculty members who have also been inducted into the AAAS are Thomas Cook, economists Greg Duncan, the Edwina S. Tarry Professor in Education, and Charles Manski, the Board of Trustees Professor in Economics. In all, 53 Northwestern faculty members belong to the Society.

	Thomas Cook receives his award from Lawrence Sherman, President of the AAPSS.

IPR Faculty Fellow Thomas Cook was inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) on April 13 as the 2003 Margaret Mead Fellow. Cook, who is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern, is one of the nation’s leading experts on whole school reform. Cook’s wide-ranging expertise also extends to social science research methodology, program evaluation, and contextual factors that influence adolescent development, particularly for urban minorities.

A prolific scholar, he has authored or coauthored numerous journal articles and books, including “Why Have Educational Evaluators Chosen Not to Do Randomized Experiments?” (forthcoming in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis), “Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for General Casual Inference” (with W.R. Shadish and D.T. Campbell, Houghton Mifflin, 2001) and “Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods” (with F.F. Furstenberg, et al., University of Chicago Press, 1999).

The AAPSS was chartered in 1891 to promote “the progress of the political and social sciences” and was one of the first academic venues to call for equal rights in the workplace and racial equality in social life. It has only recently begun to appoint fellows again, and this is the fourth year of that process.

Also among the 10 inductees were statistician Sir David Cox, fellow of Imperial College at Oxford; sociologist Christopher Jencks, a former IPR faculty fellow now with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; and economist Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College at Cambridge and the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics.