IPR Faculty News

Fall 2006, Volume 28, Number 1

Honors and Appointments

IPR FACULTY FELLOWS

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, professor of human development and social policy, has been invited to join the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies. It is a three-year appointment.

In September 2005, Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, became chair of the Board of Directors at the Russell Sage Foundation for three years.

Jamie Druckman

In July 2006, Jamie Druckman, an associate professor of political science and AT&T Research Scholar, received the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for excellence and creativity in the field of political psychology, from the International Society of Political Psychology.

He also received the Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best 2005 article in Legislative Studies Quarterly 30(4): 529-48 for “Influence without confidence: Upper chambers and government formation,” written with Michael F. Thies and Lanny Martin.

Greg J. Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, was named to the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development and the Expert Panel for the Impact Evaluation of the Student Mentoring Program in 2005. He will serve as vice president of the Population Association of America in 2006-07 and will chair the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review in the National Institutes of Health until 2008.

Duncan was also a recipient of the Social Policy Award for best journal article for “How welfare policies affect adolescents’ school outcomes: A synthesis of evidence from experimental studies,” which was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence 14(4): 399-424 in 2004. Co-authors were Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, a former IPR graduate student; Lisa A. Gennetian; Virginia Knox; and Wanda Vargas.

	Alice Eagly

In March, Alice Eagly was named the inaugural holder of the James Padilla Chair in Arts and Sciences. She is a professor of psychology.

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

The Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association elected Christopher Kuzawa, assistant professor of anthropology, as a member-at-large to the executive committee until 2008.

In January, Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor in Economics, was appointed to the American Judicature Society’s Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy and elected a council delegate from the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Science, American Association for Advancement of Science. In March, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Rome-Tor Vergata in the social and economic sciences, recognizing his fundamental contributions to the fields of econometrics and statistics.

Jeff Manza, professor of sociology and IPR’s associate director, was a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow in 2005-06.

Leslie McCall, associate professor of sociology, was named to the Sociology Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation until 2007.

Therese McGuire, professor of management and strategy, became the Beatrice Foods Research Professor in Strategic Management.

Ann Orloff, professor of sociology, will be a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow in 2006-07. Her article “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship,” American Sociological Review 58(1993): 303-28, was named as one of the journal’s “greatest hits”—one of the five most-cited articles of the 1990s.

Jennifer A. Richeson

Jennifer A. Richeson, associate professor of psychology, received the 2005 Louise Kidder Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, was the Bacon-Kilkenny Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fordham University School of Law in spring 2006.

The National Organization for Victim Assistance awarded Wesley G. Skogan, professor of political science, the 2005 Stephen Schafer Award. It recognizes individuals who have made substantial research contributions directly affecting the understanding of victims or survivors of crises, their interactions with social institutions, or their place in the criminal or civil justice systems.

	NU President Henry Bienen (right) congratulates James Spillane.

On November 3, James Spillane, professor of human development, social policy, and learning sciences, was inaugurated as the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change.

Kathleen Thelen, Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science, received the 2006 Mattei Dogan Award for the best book published in the field of comparative research for How Institutions Evolve (Cambridge University Press, 2004), awarded by the Society for Comparative Research at Yale University. She was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Research Unit on European Governance at the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation of Moncalieri, Italy.

IPR FACULTY ASSOCIATES

Pablo Boczkowski, associate professor of communication studies, received outstanding book awards from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association in 2005.

Shari S. Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, was appointed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Bar Association National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists until 2008.

Shane Greenstein, Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, was named as a Research Associate at the 2005 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

The Society for Research on Adolescence presented Barton Hirsch, professor of human development and social policy, its 2006 Social Policy Award for best-authored book for A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth (American Psychological Association and Teachers College Press, 2005).

John Kretzmann and John McKnight, co-directors of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, received the Entrepreneurial American Leadership Award for their work in community development on March 9.

Mary Pattillo, Arthur Andersen Research and Teaching Professor, was awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship for 2005-06. She will become chair of Northwestern’s sociology department this fall.

In December, David Protess’ 1998 book A Promise of Justice (written with Rob Warden on the “Ford Heights Four” case) was named by the Washington Post as one of the eight “most important” works of nonfiction about wrongful convictions since 1932. Protess is a professor of journalism.

Teresa Woodruff, professor of neurobiology and physiology, was appointed a fellow of medical sciences in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005.

Carl Smith, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 2005-06.

The Academy of Management Review named “The paradox of embeddedness” 42(1): 35-67, a 1997 paper by Brian Uzzi, professor of management and sociology, as the third most creative paper in management in the last 100 years. He also received the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Leadership.

Whitney Perkins Witt, assistant professor of medicine, received a five-year K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 2005.

Presentations of Note

Social psychologist Thomas D. Cook gave the plenary lecture—“Within Study Comparisons of Experiments and Non-Experiments: Can They Help Decide Evaluation Policy?”—at the Conference on Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications in Paris on December 15.

Economist Greg J. Duncan was invited to give the Roy Geary Lecture at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin on December 12. He spoke on “Income and Child Development.”

Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, gave the inaugural John A. Hannah Lecture on April 18 at Michigan State University. He spoke on “Context Effects, Experiments, and Generalization in Educational Research.”

Economist Charles F. Manski lectured on “Treatment Choice When Treatment Response Is Partially Identified” at the Conference on Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications in Paris on December 15.

Law professor Dorothy Roberts gave the inaugural Juanita Jackson Mitchell Lecture, “The Problem with Racial Disparities in the Child Welfare System,” at the University of Maryland’s Law School on October 27, and the Allison Davis Lecture, “The Problem of Race and the Child Welfare System,” at Williams College on November 9. She was the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Symposium on Fairness and Equity Issues in Child Welfare Training, California Social Work Education Center, University of California-Berkeley School of Social Welfare, on April 28. She also gave the keynote talk, “In Harm’s Way: Preventing and Healing Childhood Trauma,” at the Children’s Institute, Inc.’s national forum, held in Los Angeles on May 4.

On April 21, a small group of experts, including political scientist Wesley G. Skogan, met with Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH), to advise him on pressing urban issues. Turner chairs the new task force on “Saving America’s Cities,” which will create an opportunity agenda for the nation’s cities.

School leadership expert James Spillane gave the plenary lecture, “Getting to Organizations & Systems Without Losing Touch with Learners & Teachers,” on June 28 at the 2006 International Conference of the Learning Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

Recent Grants

The Searle Fund for Policy Research awarded Raquel Bernal, assistant professor of economics, a grant for her research on child care, maternal time, and the cognitive ability of children.

Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, directed by professor P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, received an R21 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. See the cover story.

Economist Greg J. Duncan received an award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development through Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation for a study that will use data from random-assignment experiments to understand the impacts of income and employment instability on family and child well-being.

Joseph Ferrie, an associate professor of economics, received an award from the National Institutes of Health as a subgrant through the University of Michigan to look at health and function over 30 years in Alameda County, Calif.

Educational researcher Larry V. Hedges received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to develop methods for the representation of treatment effects in cluster-randomized experiments via effect sizes and methods for combining effect sizes in meta-analysis. IES is also supporting Hedges’ four-year program to train postdoctoral education researchers. Each year, two postdoctoral fellows will learn interdisciplinary skills such as statistical and evaluation methods and research design.

Hedges received an IES subcontract from Cornell University for the Society for the Advancement of Education Sciences. He is one of two organizers of this new society, whose aim is to spread the use of scientific evidence in educational policy analysis.

Hedges received a National Science Foundation grant as a subaward from the University of Chicago for the university’s Data Research and Development Center, of which he is co-principal investigator. The Spencer Foundation will support Hedges’ project examining various achievement gaps in different ways for a better understanding of how the social distribution of achievement has changed over time.

The National Institutes of Health, through a subcontract from the University of Michigan, will support economist Charles F. Manski’s work to determine how probability beliefs of survey-takers affect their answers to probability questions and how those beliefs compare to objective risks using data comparisons from the Health and Retirement Study. He also received a grant from the National Institute on Aging to investigate respondent tendencies for nonresponse and response error.

Thomas McDade, an associate professor of anthropology, received a subaward from the Harvard School of Public Health for biomarker work he is conducting on the public authority for assessment of compensation for damages resulting from Iraqi aggression.

Tax specialist Therese McGuire received a grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to study property taxation in Illinois.

Law professor Dorothy Roberts received the Scholars’ Award from the National Science Foundation to study legal and political approaches to race consciousness in biotechnology research.

Political scientist Wesley G. Skogan received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention.