Faculty Awards and Honors

Fall 2009, Volume 31, Number 1

Recent Faculty Fellow Grants

Developmental psychologist P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is collaborating with the Ounce of Prevention Fund to study Educare Centers as part of a national college completion initiative led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided funding for the Experimental Political Science conference, organized by political scientist James Druckman (see related story).

Sociologist Jeremy Freese also received NSF support to continue developing the online platform Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (see related story).

Larry Hedges

Education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges is studying environmental and biological variation and language growth with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). With an NSF grant, he is establishing the Center for Advancing Research and Communication in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics with University of Chicago colleagues at the National Opinion Research Center.

Anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa is working on a model of developmental origins of adult risk factors with an NICHD grant.

Social policy professor Dan A. Lewis is starting a study of welfare reform’s impact on crime with support from the Joyce Foundation.

Economist Charles F. Manski received an NSF grant for identification and decision problems in the social sciences.

The NSF selected sociologist Monica Prasad for a CAREER award to study taxation and welfare (see related story).

With Spencer Foundation support, sociologist Lincoln Quillian is analyzing “promise scholarships,” in which states make college tuition awards to academically qualified students.

Under two new NSF grants, social psychologist Jennifer Richeson is expanding her project on the psychological and physiological implications of managing a stigmatized identity and beginning another on fostering positive interracial interactions.

James Rosenbaum’s grant from the Spencer Foundation will allow him to further study the high school procedures that best promote “college for all.”

The National Institute of Justice selected political scientist Wesley G. Skogan to help develop a new national platform for research on policing.

Sociologist and African American studies professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes will use her NSF CAREER award and Robert Wood Johnson grant for research on the economic survival strategies of women with HIV/AIDS (see related story).

Senior research associate Peter Steiner received a W. T. Grant Foundation award to study propensity score analyses

Honors and Presentations of Note

IPR Faculty Fellows

The Midwest Political Science Association awarded political scientist James Druckman and his co-authors the 2009 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for “The Content of U.S. Congressional Campaigns.” In September, Science Watch noted Druckman’s 2004 article “Political Preference Formation” was the most cited paper in economics and business. He was also appointed Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science.

Psychologist Alice Eagly became one of three recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). (See related story.) She also received the Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the APA’s American Psychological Foundation.

Sociologist Jeremy Freese was elected president of the Evolution, Biology, and Society Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges was installed as president of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) for 2009–10.

Economist Charles F. Manski was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing research achievements (see related story). He gave a plenary address on “Policy Choice with Partial Knowledge of Policy Effectiveness” at SREE’s annual conference in Arlington, Va., on March 2 and delivered the International Economic Review’s Lawrence R. Klein Lecture on “Diversified Treatment Under Ambiguity” at the University of Pennsylvania on April 16.

	Leslie McCall

Sociologist Leslie McCall’s article “Inequality, Public Opinion, and Redistribution” with Lane Kenworthy of the University of Arizona was selected by the Socio-Economic Review’s editors as the best paper submission of 2008.

Michelle Reininger, an assistant professor of education, social policy, and learning sciences, was voted Outstanding Professor of the Year by students in the School of Education and Social Policy.

Jennifer Richeson, a social psychologist, received a 2009 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions in social psychology (see related story).

Based on his book Mission and Money: Understanding the University, economist Burton Weisbrod delivered a talk to the Spencer Foundation’s Board of  Trustees on June 9.

IPR Faculty Associates

Political scientist Traci Burch received the American Political Science Association’s E. E. Schattschneider Award
for the best doctoral dissertation on American government.

The Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition gave pediatrician Jenifer Cartland the Loretta Lacey Maternal and Child Health Advocacy Award for Research for her work on the Illinois Health Survey.

Communication studies researcher Eszter Hargittai and her co-authors won an ASA best paper award from the Communication and Information Technology Section for “Cross-Ideological Discussions Among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers.”

In May, law professor emeritus John P. Heinz gave talks to the Harvard Law School and the American Bar Foundation’s Board of Directors on “When Law Firms Fail,” which was one of the top-10 downloaded papers from the Social Science Research Network’s law and economics section.

Carol Lee, professor of learning sciences and African American studies, became president of the American Educational Research Association in April.

Peter Miller, associate professor of communication studies, was elected president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Communication studies professor Daniel O’Keefe gave the keynote address, “Generalizing About the Persuasive Effects of Message Variations: The Case of Gain- and Loss-Framed Appeals,” on January 23 at The Netherlands’ University of Leiden.

The Chicago Public Library chose English professor Carl Smith’s The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City for the One Book, One Chicago program.

Linda Teplin, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, spoke on “Crime Victimization in  Adults with Severe Mental Illness” at the inaugural Violence Against Psychiatric Patients conference on September 3 in The Hague.