IPRNews-Fall 2004-Faculty News

Institute for Policy Reserach News, Northwestern University

IPR Faculty Awards and Honors

Fall 2004, Volume 26, Number 2

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, IPR faculty fellow and
developmental psychologist, was awarded the Martin E. and
Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence from
Northwestern University in May. Also, she and her co-authors
received the Society for Research on Adolescence’s Social
Policy Award in March for “Mothers’ Transitions from Welfare
to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents,”
Science 299 (5612): 1548-1552. She was a visiting scholar at
Princeton University in spring 2004.

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Dorothy Roberts' book Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare received the 2003 Research Award from the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community. Roberts also appeared in the three-part PBS program Frontline, Failure to Protect, which received the 2004 Dupont Columbia University
Award for broadcast journalism. Roberts is a law professor and an IPR faculty fellow.

Dorothy Roberts

Kathleen Thelen, professor of political science and IPR faculty fellow, was awarded the 125,000-euro (approximately U.S. $150,000) Max Planck Institute Research Award for International Cooperation.

Benjamin I. Page, Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making and IPR faculty associate, received the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) highest honor, its Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement on May 15.

He also received the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Converse Award for a work of lasting significance on public opinion for The Rational Public (University of Chicago Press, 1992), co-written with Robert Shapiro of Columbia University.

Ben Page receives his award from Elizabeth Martin, AAPOR president.

	The W. T. Grant Foundation awarded Emma Adam, assistant professor of human development and social policyand IPR faculty fellow, a five-year W. T. Grant Scholars Award, which is given to promising junior faculty.
Emma Adam

Thomas McDade, assistant professor of anthropology and IPR faculty fellow, was recognized by President George W. Bush as one of the nation’s 57 most promising young scientists. He received a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in a ceremony on May 4 at the White House. PECASE awardees are drawn from those who have already received prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants from the National Science Foundation. Only 5 percent of CAREER winners have received this award (about 140 scientists and engineers since 1996).

Thomas McDade at the PECASE
White House ceremony

Eszter Hargittai, IPR faculty fellow and assistant professor of communication studies and sociology, was named cowinner of the National Communication Association’s 2004 G. R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Economist Greg J. Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy and IPR faculty fellow, has been invited to serve as a member of the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section of the Center for Science Review in the Department of Health and Human Services from July 2004 to June 2008. He also became president of the Midwestern Economics Association.

IPR Faculty Fellow and sociologist Thomas D. Cook was named the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor in Ethics and Justice at Northwestern University.

Celeste Watkins, assistant professor of sociology and African American studies and IPR faculty fellow, was appointed as a Visiting Summer Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, HIV-Prevention Research in Minority Communities Collaborative Program. She is working on a pilot study investigating the social consequences of HIV/AIDS for African American women. She also received the 2004 Department of African American Studies Teaching Award.

Celeste Watkins

Dennis Chong, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and IPR faculty fellow, gave an endowed lecture on “Free Speech and Multiculturalism Inside and Outside the Academy” at Cornell University in February.

Alice Eagly, IPR faculty fellow and professor of psychology, delivered an invited address, “On the Flexibility of Human Mating Preferences,” at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association on April 30.

Jeff Manza, associate professor of sociology and IPR acting director and faculty fellow, gave the Doris Selo Memorial Lecture on felon disenfranchisement at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on March 17.

Thomas D. Cook, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor in Ethics and Justice and IPR faculty fellow, gave the March 29 Clifford Clogg Memorial Lecture, “Towards a Practical Theory for Generalizing Causal Knowledge,” at Penn State University.

Wesley G. Skogan, professor of political science and IPR faculty fellow, led an April 19 briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on “Making our Streets Safer.”

As an associate professor of sociology and IPR faculty fellow, Kathryn Edin testified before the Senate Finance Committee’s Social Security and Family Policy Subcommittee on “The Benefits of Healthy Marriage” on May 5.