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Spotlight on Scholars and Alumni

(Updated April 2008)

Promotions

  • Jennifer Klein (Cohort 8 - Yale) has been promoted to Associate Professor of History at Yale University.
  • Jeffrey Milyo (Cohort 4 - Yale) has been promoted to Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

  • Jacqueline Stevens (Cohort 4 - Yale) has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  • Debra Street (Cohort 3 - Michigan) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). She also has been appointed the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology.

Honors and Awards

  • Jason Barabas (Cohort 11 – Harvard) has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance.

  • Jeb Barnes (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) received the 2007 Raubenheimer Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Campus Teaching Award from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California .

  • Fred Boehmke (Cohort 12 – Michigan) received the 2007 Warren Miller Article Award from the American Political Science Association for his article“The Influence of Unobserved Factors on Position Timing and Content in the NAFTA Vote” originally published on-line on June 5, 2006 in Political Analysis. Dr. Boehmke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

  • Elizabeth Bruch (Cohort 13 – Michigan) and coauthor, Robert Mare, received
    the 2007 Robert Park Best Article Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the James Coleman Award from the Rationality and Society Section of ASA for their paper, "Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change," published in the American Journal of Sociology (2006).  Dr. Bruch currently is a second-year Scholar and will join the Sociology Department at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in summer 2008. Dr. Mare is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.

  • Andrea Campbell (Cohort 8 – Yale) has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance.

  • Pamela Herd (Cohort 9 – Michigan) has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance.

  • Vincent L. Hutchings (Cohort 7 – Yale) was a co-recipient of the 2007 Best Paper Award (with co-authors Nicholas E. Valentino, Krysha Gregorowicz, Eric Groenendyk and Ted Brader) from the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association for his paper , “Election Night's All Right for Fighting”. Dr. Hutchings is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

  • Julia Lynch (Cohort 10 – Harvard) was a co-recipient of the 2007 Best Book Award in the European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association for her book, Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children. Dr. Lynch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Mark Sawyer (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) received the 2007 Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association and also the W.E.B. DuBois Best Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists for his book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba. Dr. Sawyer is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles.

  • John Wilkerson (Cohort 1 – Berkeley/UCSF) and co–authors Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner received the 2007 Best Instructional Political Science Web Site Award from the American Political Science Association for their website, “Policy Agendas Project” ( http://www.policyagendas.org/ ). Dr. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington .

New Publications

  • Carol Caronna (Cohort 7 – Berkeley/UCSF) has authored "Turning Identity into Form:  The Cause and Consequence for Kaiser Permanente of Becoming an HMO," in The Sociology of Entrepreneurship, part of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations series (Elsevier Press, 2007). Dr. Caronna is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Towson University.

  • John Cawley (Cohort 6 – Michigan) has coauthored a new article with Andrew Whitford (Cohort 6 – Michigan) entitled "Improving the Design of Competitive Bidding in Medicare Advantage," Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (April 2007); coauthored with Michael A. Morrisey  "The Earnings of U.S. Health Economists," Journal of Health Economics (March 2007); and authored "The Cost Effectiveness of Programs to Prevent or Reduce Obesity: The State of the Literature and a Future Research Agenda," Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine (June 2007). Dr. Cawley is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University and Dr Whitford is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs, The University of Georgia.

New Grants

  • Wendy Cadge (Cohort 11 – Harvard) received a grant from the American Academy of Religion for her project, “Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine.” Dr. Cadge is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University.

  • Kimberly Morgan (Cohort 8 – Yale) and Andrea Campbell (Cohort 8 – Yale) received a National Science Foundation grant to turn a baseline survey of Medicare beneficiaries into a panel study.  This adds to their ongoing project on the 2003 Medicare reform which has been funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.  Dr. Morgan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and Dr. Campbell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Transitions

  • Mark Suchman (Cohort 6 – Yale) has joined Brown University as a Professor of Sociology.

  • Ted Gayer (Cohort 6 – Berkeley/UCSF) has taken a temporary leave of absence from his position as Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

  • Dino Falaschetti (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) spentfall 2007 as a National Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  In January 2008, he moved to Florida State University, where he is an Associate Professor in the College of Law.

  • Jeremy Freese (Cohort 12 – Harvard) has joined Northwestern University as Professor of Sociology.

  • Jonah Gelbach (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) has moved to the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, where he is an Associate Professor of Economics.

  • Brad Herring (Cohort 8 – Yale) Has moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  • Margaret Weigers Vitullo (Cohort 1 – Michigan ) has joined the American Sociological Association as Director of Academic and Professional Affairs. She will manage the education, teaching and career programs of ASA.

  • Susan Yackee (Cohort 10 – Michigan) has moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs.
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