March 4, 2004

Faculty honors

Two faculty members — Peter Carroll, assistant professor of history, and Joel I. Shalowitz, professor and director of the Program in Health Industry Management — have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for 2003-04.

Approximately 800 scholars will travel abroad during this academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstration of extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

Carroll specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China. The Fulbright grant will support research at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on suicide and ideas of modern society in China during the first half of the 20th century. He has spent the last several months as a Luce International Studies Fellow at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center under a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Shalowitz‘s Fulbright award is to teach a course on international health systems this semester at York University in Toronto. His areas of professional interest and research are medical group management, managed care system, quality assessment and international healthcare systems.

In addition to directing the Health Industry Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Shalowitz is professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of Sigma Xi honorary scientific society.

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, professor of human development and social policy, has been elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for 2004.

APA Fellows are selected for their exceptional and outstanding contributions to the research, teaching or practice of psychology. Fellows must also demonstrate the national impact of their work, such as numerous research-based publications, leadership roles within psychology or community service in their clinical practice.

Chase-Lansdale is a senior developmental psychologist whose research addresses how aspects of the social environment, such as poverty, neighborhood characteristics, early parenthood, family structures and maternal employment affect children, adolescents and families.

She is co-principal investigator of a multi-disciplinary, multi-site study, “Welfare Children and Families: a Three-City Study,” and has directed the Embedded Developmental Study, which involves videotaped home observations of 600 preschool-aged children and their mothers as well as live observations of child care settings.

She is the lead author of a recent article in Science, titled “Mothers’ Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents.”

She is chair of the board of directors of the Foundation for Child Development and a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy.

Chase-Lansdale is currently a visiting scholar at the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University.