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Eileen McDonagh’s (CASBS 2009-10) book, The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy, has been honored with the the American Political Science Association's 2010 J. David Greenstone Award.  The award recognizes the best book on politics and history published within the previous two calendar years.  (August 2010) 
BIO >>  More about the APSA Book Award >>
Book Details on Amazon.com >>  Publisher's Summary >>


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(April 2010)  James F. Fries (CASBS 1979, 2001) has been named as this year’s Jim recipient of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus Award.  MORE DETAILS >>

(April, 2010) Norbert Schwarz's (CASBS 2009-10, 2000-01) book on cognitive aspects of survey research, Thinking About Answers  (Jossey-Bass, 1996) and co-authored with the late Seymour Sudman and Norman Bradburn, will receive the 2010 Book Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.  Each year, the award recognizes one book (of any age) that had an influence on the field of public opinion research.  More about the AAPOR Book award >>

In addition, this year Prof. Schwarz was elected to the Leopoldina, Germany's National Academy of Sciences.  The Leopoldina, founded in 1652, is also the world’s oldest continuously existing academy for medicine and natural sciences.  (February, 2010)  More about the Leopoldina >>

(December, 2009) Cecilia Ridgeway (CASBS Fellow 2005-06) has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon members of the association by her peers.  Professor Ridgeway was elected for her distinguished contributions to the study of gender in society, particularly for research on status inequality, discrimination, and the place of gender in social organizations.  (December, 2009)  Read the announcement >>

(December, 2009)  Fred Turner (CASBS Fellow 2007-08) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Stanford University's Department of Communication.  BIO >>

(December, 2009)  Ulman Lindenberger (CASBS Fellow 2009-10) has been named as the recipient of The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation.)  The award includes a €2.5 million prize to pursue his work. 
Read the announcement >>  BIO >>

(November, 2009) Harriet Zuckerman, Senior Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CASBS Fellow 1973-74 and former Board member) has co-authored a book, Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Harriet Zuckerman, Sharon M. Brucker, Jeffrey A. Groen
Book Details on Amazon.com >>  Publisher's Book Summary >>

(November, 2009)  Nancy A. Hewitt (CASBS Fellow 1996-97) is spending 2001-10 at the University of Cambridge in England as the Pitt Professor of American History. The endowed professorship is awarded each year to a U.S. scholar in history or the social sciences.  BIO >>

(October, 2009)  Karin D. Knorr Cetina (CASBS Fellow 2008-09)was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize for distinguished contributions to the field by the Society for Social Studies of Science and Thompson Scientific. 
About the award >>

(October, 2009)  Margaret Somers' (CASBS Fellow 2009-10) book Genealogies of Citizenship. Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights is awarded The 2009 Giovanni Sartori Book Award by the Qualitative Methods Prize Committee of The American Political Science Association. 
Read the announcement >>  Book Details on Amazon.com >> 
Publisher's Book Summary >>

(October, 2009) Oliver Williamson (CASBS Fellow 1977-78) is one of two individuals honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.
Read the announcement >>  Watch UC Berkeley's Press Announcement Video >>

(September 2009) Linda Darling-Hammond (CASBS 1997-98 and 2006-07)
is one of three individuals honored with the 2009 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education. Read the announcement >>

(July 2009) Abigail Saguy (CASBS 2008-09), shortly after returning from her CASBS Fellowship, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of California, Los Angeles' Department of Sociology. Bio >>

(April 2009) Emmanuel Saez (CASBS 2007-08) is awarded the 2009 John Bates Clark Medal in Economics. The Clark Medal has been awarded biennially from 1947-2009 to an American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. From 2010 forward, the Clark Medal will be awarded annually. The Medal winner is announced in April.  For more information, visit this link >>

(May 2009) Former CASBS Director Claude Steele (CASBS 1994-95) to become Columbia University's next Provost. Read Columbia's announcement >>

(March 2009) Steven Epstein (CASBS 2008-09) has been awarded the 2009 American Sociological Association Distinguished Publication Award for his book Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (Chicago, 2007.) Professor Epstein's book also won the SKAT Robert K. Merton Award in 2007.

(March 2009) Andrei Markovits (CASBS 2008-09) has been selected as a Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. The Thurnau Professorships recognize and reward faculty for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. BIO >>

(March 2009) Thomas P. Slaughter (CASBS 1996-97), who joined the University of Rochester in fall 2008, has been named the first to hold a newly endowed faculty position at the university. The new professorship in history was established thanks to the generosity of alumnus Arthur R. Miller, the nation's preeminent scholar in the field of civil procedure. For more information, visit this link >>

(March 2009) Mayer Zald (CASBS 2004-05, 1993-94 and 1986-87) received the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior in April 2009 from the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change at the University of Notre Dame. For more information, visit this link >>

(February 12, 2009) Twenty-five years ago, Gayle Rubin's (CASBS 2006-07) essay "Thinking Sex" (1984) inaugurated the contemporary field of sexuality studies. The University of Pennsylvania hosted a state of the field conference, Rethinking Sex: Gender and Sexuality Studies in March, 2009 to bring together key figures in gender and sexuality studies to consider the history of the field as well as its current strengths and potential.  For more information, visit this link >>

(February 2009) Alan Krueger (CASBS 1999-2000) began his new post as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Bio >>

(January 2009) Fellow Kimberlé Crenshaw (CASBS 2008-09) joined Dick Gregory, Alice Walker and Nobel Prize Laureate Jody Williams in speaking at the 2009 Inaugural Peace Ball, held Jan. 20 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to commemorate President Barack Obama's inauguration and honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Read her speech on Huffington Post >>

(January 20, 2009) Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo (CASBS 2007-08) is named Director of the Center for Democratic, Urban and Environmental Studies at her university, El Colegio de Mexico.

(January 20, 2009) James T. Hamilton (CASBS 2007-08) is named Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University. Bio >>
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You Are What You Choose:  The Habits of Mind That Really Determine How We Make Decisions
by James Hamilton
CASBS Fellow 2007-08
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