IPR Faculty News

Fall 2005, Volume 27, Number 1

Honors and Appointments

Thomas D. Cook

IPR Faculty Fellow Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, was named to the Advisory Committee on Head Start Accountability and Educational Performance Measures.

IPR Faculty Fellow James Druckman, associate professor of political science and AT&T Research Scholar, will receive the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. He was invited to be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, CA.

Economist Greg J. Duncan has been named a National Associate in the National Academies. He was an invited fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2004-05 in New York. Duncan is Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and an IPR faculty fellow.

Alice Eagly

IPR Faculty Fellow Alice Eagly, professor of psychology and department chair, received the 2005 Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women for contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader. She also received an International Visitors’ Grant from the Dutch Scientific Organization for 2005-06, and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics.

IPR Faculty Fellow Eszter Hargittai, assistant professor of communication studies and sociology, will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2006-07.

In June, Luojia Hu, assistant professor of economics and an IPR faculty fellow, was awarded the Albert Rees Prize for Best Dissertation in Labor Economics from Princeton University.

Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor in Economics and an IPR faculty fellow, was appointed to the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, National Research Council.

Jeff Manza, professor of sociology and an IPR faculty fellow, was appointed to the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting, which is organized by the Social Science Research Council. Manza was IPR’s acting director in 2004-05.

IPR Faculty Fellow Dorothy Roberts received the 2005 Outstanding Achievement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment, Prevention, and Intervention Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children for Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002). Roberts is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law.

IPR Faculty Fellow James Spillane, professor of human development, social policy, and learning sciences, was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education to a three-year term starting in June.

Kathleen Thelen’s book, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan (Cambridge, 2004), was co-winner of the 2005 American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. It is given for the best book published in the United States during the previous year on government, politics, or international affairs. She was also appointed a permanent external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, in March. Thelen was appointed Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and is an IPR faculty fellow.

IPR Faculty Fellow Celeste Watkins received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Her first year will be spent at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Watkins is assistant professor of African American studies and sociology.

Mary Pattillo

IPR Faculty Associate Mary Pattillo, associate professor of African American studies and sociology, was named as the Northwestern University Arthur Andersen Research and Teaching Professor.

John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, received the Best Article Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association. It was for “S/he’s a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood,” co-authored with Holly Foster of Texas A&M University (Social Forces 82:53-86). Hagan is an IPR faculty associate.

Presentations of Note

IPR Faculty Fellow and Director Fay Lomax Cook, who was on leave at Sciences Po in Paris in 2004-05, gave several talks on Social Security and U.S. pension reform over the spring in Paris. Organizations she addressed included the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO) and the American Embassy. She is professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern.

Thomas D. Cook has given several invited talks around the U.S. and Europe over the past months, including the inaugural lecture of the Duke University Social Science Research Institute; the plenary address at the Conference on Multiple Methods in Educational Research in Washington, D.C.; and a presentation at the OECD on U.S. educational reform in Stockholm.

Leemore Dafny

IPR Faculty Fellow Leemore Dafny, assistant professor of management and strategy at Kellogg, presented her work on the effects of hospital mergers on prices at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. in January.

Psychologist Alice Eagly delivered an invited address at the June 2006 Interamerican Congress of Psychology in Buenos Aires.

Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy and an IPR faculty fellow, was on the faculty of the National Institutes of Health Summer Institute for Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions.

Sociologist Jeff Manza gave an invited presentation on “The Bush Presidency and the Future of American Politics” at the Social Project Institute in Moscow on January 27.

IPR Faculty Fellow James Rosenbaum, president of the Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association, organized an August conference on No Child Left Behind. He is professor of human development and social policy.

Law professor Dorothy Roberts gave many presentations in the past months, including “Genes, Reproduction, and the Black Community,” Conference on Increasing Minority Awareness of Genetics Now, Congressional Black Caucus and Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.; the plenary speech, “What’s Wrong with the Child Welfare System?,” Child Welfare League of America’s Biennial Leadership Summit; and the keynote address, “Toward a Community Approach to Child Welfare Theory, Policy, and Practice,” Annual Family Group Decision Making Conference of the American Humane Society.

IPR Faculty Fellow Wesley G. Skogan, professor of political science, met with two foreign delegations in Chicago to discuss his evaluation of Chicago’s Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS). On February 16, he spoke with five mayors and 12 members of parliament from Holland and on March 8, with 16 police officers and politicians from Northern Ireland. They also debated CAPS’ significance for their respective countries. On May 31, he gave the keynote address at the Colloque International Francophone: La police et les citoyens in Nicolet, Quebec.

IPR Faculty Fellow Bruce D. Spencer, professor of statistics, presented “Total Survey Error and Randomized Social Experiments” at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences’ Workshop on Total Survey Error in Washington, D.C. in March.

Recent Grants

Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, which IPR Faculty Fellow Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, professor of human development and social policy, co-directs, received a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Anne E. Casey Foundation as a subcontract from Johns Hopkins University. The Searle Fund has also provided funding for the study.

James Spillane received a four-year subcontract from the University of Pennsylvania for the project Assessing the Impact of Principals’ Professional Development: An Evaluation of the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL). Spillane is one of the project’s principal investigators.

Spillane also received a grant from the Searle Fund for Educational Excellence and Equity: Investigating Relations Among Institutional Choice, Social Networks, and Teachers’ Knowledge and Motivation.

Sociologist Jeff Manza received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation for his project Public Opinion and Welfare State Effort in Comparative Perspective.

Thomas McDade, assistant professor of anthropology and an IPR faculty fellow, received a subgrant from the University of Chicago for the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project.

The Searle Fund will support the project High Rates of Child Welfare Agency Involvement in African American Neighborhoods: The Impact on Community and Civic Life. Law professor Dorothy Roberts is the principal investigator.

Thomas D. Cook was awarded a two-year grant from the Searle Fund for a project that will review implementation of the Institute of Education Sciences’ experimental agenda and evaluate its effectiveness in changing research practices in the field of education.

He will also be writing a book and organizing workshops on quasi-experimentation specifically for educational researchers, thanks to a one-year grant from the Spencer Foundation.

Wesley G. Skogan received a one-year award from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to evaluate I-CLEAR, the criminal justice data integration project, launched by the Illinois State Police and the Chicago Police Department.