Greg J. Duncan (IPR-Education and Social Policy) will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in July 1999, "in recognition of [his] outstanding contribution in the field of the collection and analysis of panel data."
Dorothy Roberts (IPR-Law) was awarded the 1998 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal, which recognizes women affiliated with Harvard or Radcliffe postgraduate programs who have made distinguished contributions in their field. She also received the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America for Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon Books, 1997).
James S. Ettema (IPR-Communication Studies) is the 1999 winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Research in Journalism, given by the Society of Professional Journalists. He was also presented with the 1999 Bart Richards Award for media criticism from the College of Communications at Penn State. Both honors are for his co-authored book with Theodore L. Glasser, Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue (1998).
David Protess (IPR-Medill) has received the 1999 Edith Abbott Award, which honors outstanding alumni of the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.
Jeff Manza's (IPR-Sociology) 1997 article with Clem Brooks, "The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992," in the American Journal of Sociology, has received the American Sociological Association Political Sociology Section Award for Best Scholarly Paper published in 1996 or 1997, and the 1998 Distinguished Article Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Vilna Bashi (IPR-Sociology) was awarded a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will spend next year at the University of Chicago writing a book on immigrant social networks.
Peter Swenson (IPR-Political Science) has received a Sabbatical Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society for a research leave next year. He will start a project on the political economy and history of health care in the United States. It will focus on the role of large employers and their relations with providers and insurers.
Leonard Rubinowitz (IPR-Law) is the winnter of the Robert Childres Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence for 1999, an honor that is bestowed by the Northwestern Law School students. He has been appointed a Special Master in the Gautreaux public housing litigation to mediate the dispute involving the revitalization of the Cabrini-Green public housing development and the surrounding area.
Paul Hirsch (IPR-Kellogg) has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Academy of Management's Division of Organization and Management Theory.
Henry Binford (IPR-History) was presented with the National Faculty Award for teaching from the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs.
Mary Patillo-McCoy (IPR-Sociology) was honored as one of the Chicago Sun Times "Top 30 under 30" in the field of public service in May.
Fay Lomax Cook, IPR Director and President-elect of the Gerontological Society of America, was appointed by Assistant Secretary on Aging Jeanette Takamura to serve on an expert panel for the Administration on Aging (AOA) on performance outcome measurement. Its purpose is to develop outcome measures for evaluating programs that the federal government is sponsoring.
Thomas D. Cook (IPR-Sociology) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Johann Jacobs Foundation in Zurich has invited Cook (with Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania) to plan and chair an international conference to be held in Switzerland entitled Transitions to Early Adulthood.
The Association of American Law Schools has asked John P. Heinz, Owen L. Coon Professor of Law and IPR faculty fellow, to serve as its delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. The Council is comprised of 61 national scholarly organizations in the humanities and the related social sciences.
Charles C. Moskos (IPR-Sociology) has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also became the first recipient of the American Sociological Association Award for Public Understanding of Sociology.
Wesley G. Skogan (IPR-Political Science) is organizing and chairing a special 30-month panel for the National Research Council. It will produce a research synthesis on the operation and impact of policing and provide an agenda for future police research. The two reports will be published by the National Academy of Sciences Press.
Burton A. Weisbrod, John Evans Professor of Economics, was elected to the Governing Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).