Office of the Provost names 2022-23 Academic Leadership Program Fellows

Northwestern University’s Office of the Provost has named five Academic Leadership Program (ALP) Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year.

This year’s fellows are Stephanie Edgerly from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; Sarah B. Lawsky from the Pritzker School of Law; Mike Mazzeo from the Kellogg School of Management; and Sandra M Sanguino from the Feinberg School of Medicine.

ALP is an intensive year-long program that develops the leadership and managerial skills of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and academic promise. Nominated by deans and selected by the Provost Kathleen Hagerty upon nomination from the deans, ALP Fellows attend in-person conferences at alternating Big Ten institutions and participate in on-campus activities at their home institution.

“Participating in the ALP completely changed my perspective about how institutions of higher education work, their relationship to each other, and their connections with the public and the government,” said Associate Provost for Faculty Sumit Dhar, who served as an ALP Fellow during the 2013-14 academic year. “Perhaps the greatest benefit of participation in the ALP is the deep and lasting connections Northwestern’s fellows establish with one another through important growth stages of their careers.”

Stephanie Edgerly

Edgerly is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She is an expert in audience insight. Her research explores how features of new media alter the way audiences consume news and impact engagement. She is particularly interested in the mixing of news and entertainment content, how individuals and groups create and share news over social media, and how audiences selectively consume media. Recent projects have explored why people don’t consume news and the varied ways that people make sense of the larger media environment.

Edgerly’s research has garnered several recent honors. In 2020, her article “Deciding What’s News: News-ness as an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment” won the Outstanding Article award in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. In 2018, her publication about patterns of news consumption among U.S. teenagers was a finalist for the award. In 2019, Edgerly was awarded the inaugural Sharon Dunwoody Early Career Award from the University of Wisconsin. In 2020, she was named the 19th recipient of the Walder Award for Research Excellence at Northwestern.

Edgerly is a speaker in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs as an expert in journalism. She has traveled to Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, China, Greece and the Philippines to talk with government officials, news organizations and students about issues related to fake news, news media trust and news media literacy. Edgerly is a Fellow in the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication and a Faculty Associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Journalism Studies.

Sarah Lawsky

Lawsky is Vice Dean and Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law in the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She specializes in tax law and formal logic. Lawsky’s work investigates using nonstandard logic to formalize tax law, and she is currently working with computer scientists who are drawing from her research to create a domain-specific programming language to represent statutory law. She teaches a range of tax classes.

Prior to joining Northwestern Pritzker in 2016, Lawsky taught at UC Irvine School of Law, where she was also the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs; at George Washington University Law School; and as an adjunct in NYU’s tax LL.M. program. Before beginning her teaching career, she practiced tax law in New York.

Lawsky earned her B.A. from the University of Chicago, her J.D. from Yale Law School, her LL.M. in tax from NYU School of Law, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the UC Irvine Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science.

Mike Mazzeo

Mazzeo is a Professor of Strategy in the Kellogg School of Management. He joined the faculty in 1998 after earning his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Mazzeo is Faculty Associate with Northwestern’s Institute of Policy Research and serves on the editorial board of the Review of Industrial Organization.

Mazzeo’s academic work focuses on how business success depends on a firm’s ability to differentiate from its competitors. Some of his recent papers have analyzed on-time performance differences among competing airlines and the incentives of retail banks to expand their network of branches. He also has studied the antitrust implications of product choice in merger analysis and the impact of investments in quality on industry evolutions.

Mazzeo is an award-winning instructor for courses in business strategy. He has served in Kellogg’s administration as the Faculty Director of the Evening and Weekend MBA program and as the Senior Associated Dean for Curriculum and Teaching. He is a co-author of “Roadside MBA,” which was published in 2014 by Grand Central Publishing.

Sandra M. Sanguino

Sanguino, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Education and is the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education in the Feinberg School of Medicine. She is an attending physician at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in the Division of Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care.

Sanguino has been at Feinberg more than 25 years, starting with her medical degree, and followed by a pediatric residency and fellowship at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. She has served on faculty since 1996. She was named Associate Dean for Student Affairs in 2009 and served in that role until 2020, when she was named Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education. Sanguino’s areas of expertise include medical student support, career advising and coaching.

Sanguino has served on the Executive Committee for the Council of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics and is a national advisor for the Academic Pediatric Association’s Educational Scholars Program. She was honored in 2017 with the Exceptional Mentor Award from the American Medical Women’s Association.

Regan Thomson

Thomson is a Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Following postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at Northwestern in 2006.

Thomson’s research interests are in the general field of organic chemistry, where he specializes in the invention of new chemical reactions, the total synthesis of complex biologically active natural products, and biogenic atmospheric chemistry. His work has been recognized with several awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Amgen Young Investigator Award, an Illinois Division American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, and the Novartis Lectureship.

In 2020, Thomson was named a Charles Deering Professor of Teaching Excellence in recognition of his outstanding contributions teaching sophomore organic chemistry, and in 2021 he was awarded the Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service.