Faculty Recognition

Fall, 2008, Volume 30, Number 2

Honors and Presentations of Note

Faculty Fellows

Thomas McDade

Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, is serving as president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology for 2008–09.

Thomas McDade, an anthropologist, was named Weinberg College Board of Visitors Research and Teaching Professor.

Therese McGuire, who is ConAgra Foods Research Professor of Management and Strategy, was elected to the board of directors of the Illinois Tax Foundation.

Law professor Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, was a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity in 2007–08.

James Rosenbaum, professor of human development and social policy, was appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s Technical Review Panel on the design of the 2009 National High School Longitudinal Study.

The journal PS: Political Science and Politics named political science professor Wesley G. Skogan among the 25 most-cited political scientists.

Kathleen Thelen, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, is president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics for 2008–09. She is also a member of the Transatlantic Academy’s 2008 advisory committee.


Faculty Associates

Eszter Hargittai, associate professor of communication studies, is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in 2008–09.

Peter Miller, associate professor of communication studies, was elected president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research for 2009–10. He is serving as the association’s vice president this academic year.

Brian Uzzi received the 2008 W. Richard Scott Award for best paper from the American Sociological Association. He is Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at Kellogg.

Sandra Waxman, professor of cognitive psychology, delivered the Ann L. Brown lecture on “Conceptual Consequences of Word-Learning in the First Two Years of Life” on October 16 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Recent Faculty Fellow Grants

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice, a grant for “Planning a Possible Network on Housing and Families with Children.” In addition, the Spencer Foundation renewed its support for “Workshops on Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education,” which Cook co-organizes annually with William Shadish of UC-Merced.

James Druckman, associate professor of political science, received a grant for collaborative research on “Campaigns in a New Media Age: How Candidates Use the World Wide Web” from the National Science Foundation.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is supporting a study on “The Long-Term Effects of Neighborhoods on Low-Income Youth,” based on the results of the federal Moving to Opportunity program. IPR faculty Greg Duncan, Thomas McDade, and Emma Adam are on the research team.

The Institute of Education Sciences awarded Larry Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics, a grant for “The Continued Development of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness,” of which Hedges is a founding member and past president.

Christopher Kuzawa, associate professor of anthropology, will study “Fetal Growth and a Cue of Matrilineal Nutrition History in the Philippines” with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Dorothy Roberts

The Joyce Foundation is supporting a project by Michelle Reininger, assistant professor of human development and social policy, on “Targeting Recruitment Efforts at Promising Student Teachers: A New Approach for Teacher Recruitment in the Chicago Public School System.”

Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study “Race Consciousness in Biomedicine, Law, and Social Policy.”

With a grant from the Council of Great City Schools, James
Rosenbaum, professor of human development and social policy, will conduct a new study to examine “Does Post-
secondary Advising Improve Student Motivation and Progress in High School?” as part of his research on college readiness.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded Wesley G. Skogan, professor of political science, a grant for “Continuing Analysis of CeaseFire-Chicago, 2008–09.”