Faculty Awards, Honors, and Presentations of Note

Winter 2008 , Volume 30, Number 1

Social psychologist Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice and an IPR faculty fellow, was awarded the 2007 Sells Award by the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. The award recognizes an individual each year for distinguished lifetime achievement in contributions to the field.

Daniel Diermeier

“Democratic Competition and Public Opinion” by political scientists Dennis Chong and James Druckman received the 2007 Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the American Political Science Association. The two IPR faculty were recognized for their “outstanding paper” on “how experimental research can illuminate ... the extent to which political elites can control or manipulate mass behavior.” Chong is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, and Druckman is associate professor of political science.

IPR Faculty Associate Daniel Diermeier, IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, was honored on November 16 by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education with a 2007 Faculty Pioneer Award for Institutional Impact. Described as the “Oscars of the business school world,” the awards recognize business school faculty who advance the principles of socially responsible leadership.

IPR Faculty Fellow Alice Eagly gave the inaugural lecture as the James Padilla Chair in Arts and Sciences on October 23. It was on “Through the Labyrinth: Producing Politically Relevant Research and Explaining It to the Public.” In July, she received the Interamerican Psychologist Award from the Interamerican Society of Psychology for distinguished contributions to the field.

Dan A. Lewis, professor of human development and social policy and an IPR faculty fellow, was named the School of Education and Social Policy’s Outstanding Undergraduate Professor for 2006-07.

IPR Faculty Fellow Nancy MacLean’s book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace has received multiple book awards for its “path-breaking” analysis of the U.S. labor movement: the Taft Prize for the outstanding book published in 2006 in U.S. labor history from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, the 2007 Willard Hurst Prize for best book in sociolegal history by the Law and Society Association, the 2007 Labor History Best Book Prize by the International Association of Labor History Institutions, the Lillian Smith Book Award by the Southern Regional Council, and the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations by the Industrial Relations Section. She is professor of history and African American studies.

Benjamin Page, Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making and an IPR faculty associate, received the American Political Science Association’s 2007 Krammerer Award for the best book in American politics in August. It was for The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders But Don’t Get, written with Marshall Bouton.

The Politics of Free Markets, written by Monica Prasad, assistant professor of sociology and an IPR faculty fellow, received the Barrington Moore Book Award for best book from the Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association.

IPR Faculty Fellow Jennifer Richeson, associate professor of psychology and African American studies, was named one of Smithsonian magazine’s 2007 “America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences” for her work at the forefront of discrimination research.

	Wesley G. Skogan

James Rosenbaum, professor of human development and social policy and an IPR faculty fellow, has been named as an adviser to the National Assessment of Career and Technical Education in the Department of Education until 2011.

IPR Faculty Fellow Wesley G. Skogan, professor of political science, gave the keynote lecture at the Apex Scottish Institute for Policing Research’s annual conference on September 11 at the historic Signet Library in Edinburgh.

IPR Faculty Fellow Kathy Thelen, Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science, was elected as a senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Nuffield College.

Jennifer Light, associate professor of communication studies and an IPR faculty associate, received a 2007 New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation.

Recent Grants
Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice and an IPR faculty fellow, received two awards from the Spencer Foundation to support a visiting scholar and the 2008 series of quasi-experimentation workshops. (See the related story on p. 10.)

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy awarded Therese McGuire, ConAgra Foods Research Professor in Strategic Management at Kellogg and an IPR faculty fellow, a grant to study how Illinois’ system of property taxes is broken and what can be done to fix it.

Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and an IPR faculty fellow, received an award from the Foundation for Child Development to look at how students’ third-grade skills relate to their later achievement and outcomes.

Duncan also received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates and Smith Richardson foundations for a project that will investigate how neighborhoods influence the life outcomes of low-income youth. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is also supporting the project. (See the related cover story for more information.)

The Institute of Education Sciences will fund a series of summer workshops for two years on randomized field trials, run by IPR Faculty Fellow Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, and two Vanderbilt colleagues. (See the related story on p. 16.)

Leslie McCall, associate professor of sociology, AT&T Research Scholar, and an IPR faculty fellow, is adding questions on inequality to the 2008 General Social Survey with support from the National Science Foundation.

IPR Faculty Fellow Alberto Palloni, Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology, was awarded a National Institutes of Health grant, for his work on health conditions among the elderly in Latin America.

IPR Faculty Fellow Michelle Reininger, assistant professor of human development and social policy, received a grant from the Joyce Foundation for her work on Targeting Recruitment Efforts at Promising Student Teachers: A New Approach for Teacher Recruitment in the Chicago Public School System. (See the related cover story.)

Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law and an IPR faculty fellow, received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award for her project on race consciousness in biomedicine, law, and social policy.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will provide funding for the Illinois site of Community Action for Child Health Equity (CACHE), a partnership between Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute and Lake County Health Department’s community health centers. IPR Faculty Associate Madeleine Shalowitz is co-principal investigator, and several C2S and IPR faculty—Emma Adam, Greg Duncan, Christopher Kuzawa, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Thomas McDade, and Bruce Spencer—are involved.

IPR Faculty Fellow Burton Weisbrod, John Evans Professor of Economics, received a grant from the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern’s Law School to measure and evaluate performance in the public and nonprofit sectors.