Fellows in the News 2003
December, 2003. Ellen
Handler Spitz (Fellow 1997) delivered a paper based on her CASBS book
"Inside Picture Books" at Jadavpur University in Kolkatta, India.
December 15, 2003. Richard
White (Fellow 2003-04) was a commentator for a PBS production called "The
West", an eight-part documentary that probes the conflicting
visions and competing values that made an American nation on this vast
land.
November, 2003. Kathleen Hall
Jamieson (Fellow 2003-04) appeared on the PBS News Hour discussing
conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's death; she contends that there
was no conspiracy - Oswald did it on his own.
September 25, 2003. Edward Said
(Fellow 1976), a renowned scholar and leading advocate of the
Palestinian cause, died at age 67 after a long battle with leukemia. A
professor of literature at Columbia University, Said was best known for
his 1978 book Orientalism. A profile of his life can be found
at http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/transcripts/2003/sep/030925.said.html.
September 22, 2003. At the
Museum of Communication in Berlin the 2003 IZA Prize in Labor Economics
was awarded to the renowned American economist and labor market expert
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University, CASBS Fellow 1990).
Ashenfelter received the award for his groundbreaking contributions to
the field of labor market research demonstrating the benefits of an
accurate analysis of labor market policy by using evaluation
research. http://www.iza.org/
September 17, 2003. Peter
Galison’s field (Harvard, CASBS Fellow 1990) is the history of science
and his latest book Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps was
the lead review in Sunday's New York Times book review section. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/books/review
September 17, 2003. Weighing in
on the California recall election, former fellow Bruce Ackerman (Fellow
2002) Op-Ed, The New York Times, criticized federal
appeals court order
delaying California's gubernatorial recall election saying that the
case cannot be compared with 2000 Bush v Gore decision of Supreme
Court. And Henry Brady (Fellow 2002) of Berkeley was quoted extensively
in the San Francisco Chronicle throughout September on research he
conducted on the validity of punch card ballots.
September 7, 2003. In an article in the New York Times, Dan Gilbert (Fellow
2004) explained his
research into the pursuit of happiness.
August 31, 2003. In the News of
the Week of Review section of Sunday's New York Times, the lead article
about the New York blackout and other disasters quoted former Fellow,
Chick Perrow (Fellow 1982, 2001) and specifically mentioned his book Normal
accidents: living with high-risk technologies.
Fall, 2003. Max Bazerman (Fellow 1990)
was called by NPR's CarTalk a few months
ago. "Click" and "Clack" called on him as an authority concerning
psychology and business, as it
might
relate to a caller's car-selling strategy.
August 18, 2003. Those of you
who listen to NPR's "Morning Edition," will have heard NPR's Steve
Inskeep talk with Kenneth Kendler (Fellow 2004), professor at Virginia
Commonwealth University and co-author of a new study on the
relationships between loss, humiliation and depression. Findings from
the study suggest that major depression in people is not only caused by
loss, but humiliating events like being abandoned by a romantic
partner. The study was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1401359
