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Spotlight on Scholars and Alumni

(Updated January 2010)

Promotions

  • Jason Barabas (Cohort 11 – Harvard) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida State University.

  • Reagan Baughman (Cohort 8 – Michigan) has received promotion to Associate Professor of Economics in the Whittemore School of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

  • Wendy Cadge (Cohort 11 - Harvard) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.

  • Andrea L. Campbell (Cohort 8 – Yale) has received tenure as an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Kitt. Carpenter (Cohort 9 – Michigan) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Economics/Public Policy in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine.

  • Pamela Herd (Cohort 9 –- Michigan) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology Department of Sociology, in the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

  • Vincent L. Hutchings (Cohort 7 – Yale) has been promoted to Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

  • Debra Javeline (Cohort 10 - Harvard) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

  • Taeku Lee (Cohort 6 - Yale) has been promoted to Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • NewEric McDaniel (Cohort 15 - Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Assistant Professor with tenure in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. McDaniel is currently a Scholar at the Program's Berkeley/UCSF site.

  • Robert Mickey (Cohort 13 - Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

  • Abigail Saguy (Cohort 7 - Yale) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • Grant D. Reeher (Cohort 2 – MICHIGAN) has been promoted to Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University.

  • Stephanie Robert (Cohort 3 - Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

  • Andy Whitford (Cohort 6 - Michigan) has been promoted to Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

Honors and Awards

  • Rene Almeling (Cohort 15 – Berkeley/UCSF) is the recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociology Association's Section on Economic Sociology for her article "Selling genes, selling gender: Egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material" (American Sociological Review 72: 319-340, 2007). Dr. Almeling is a Scholar at the Program's Berkeley/UCSF site.

  • Damon Centola (Cohort 13 – Berkeley/UCSF) has received the 2009 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociology Association's Section on Mathematical Sociology for "Complex Contagions and Weakness of Long Ties" (American Journal of Sociology, 2007, 3:702-34) written with co-author Michael Macy. Dr. Centola is an Assistant Professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • William Encinosa (Cohort 2 – Michigan) has received the 2009 John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year Award from Health Services Research with his co-author Fred Hellinger for their article ``The Impact of Medical Errors on 90-Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients." (Health Services Research, 2008 43:6, 2067-2085). Dr. Encinoca is a Senior Economist in the Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets (CDOM) at the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ).

  • Dino Falaschetti (Cohort 8 - Berkeley/UCSF) has been awarded the Best Paper by a Junior Author from the Industrial Organization Society for his article with Marco Castañeda, "Does a Hospital's Profit Status Affect its Operational Scope" (Review of Industrial Organization  2008, Vol. 33, Issue 2). Dr. Falaschetti will be on leave in 2009-2010 from his post as Associate Professor of Law and Economics at Florida State University to be s a Campbell National Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

  • Maren Klawiter (Cohort 6 – Michigan) was awarded the 2009 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book in the Study of Collective Behavior & Social Movements from the American Sociology Association and received an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Robert K. Merton Book Award from the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology of the American Sociology Association for her book "The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Culture of Disease and Activism" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Dr. Klawiter is a student at the Yale School of Law.

  • Eric McDaniel (Cohort 15 – Berkeley/UCSF) is the co-recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award (with co-author Christopher Ellison) from the Western Political Science Association for their June 2008 Political Research Quarterly Article: "God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time". Dr. McDaniel is a Scholar at the Program's Berkeley/UCSF site.

  • Hans Noel (Cohort 15 - Michigan) has been awarded the 2009 Emerging Scholars Award for significant research by a scholar receiving his or her doctorate within the past five years by the American Political Science Association's Section on Political Organizations and Parties. Dr. Noel is a Cohort 15 Scholar at the University of Michigan site.

  • NewRobert Van Houweling (Cohort 11 – Berkeley/UCSF) is the co-recipient of the Jack L. Walker, Jr. Award (with co-author Michael Tomz) from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Poliitical Science Association for their article:“Candidate Positioning and Voter Choice,” American Political Science Review 102 (3): 303–18". Dr. Van Houweling is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the University of California, Berkeley.

New Publications

  • Frederick Boehmke (Cohort 12 – Michigan) has authored "Policy Emulation or Policy Convergence? Potential Ambiguities in the Dyad Event History Approach to State Policy Emulation." (The Journal of Politics, 71 (3): 1125-1140) and "Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Modification of Policies with Multiple Components" (State Politics and Policy Quarterly , 9 (2): 229-252). Dr. Boehmke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

  • NewWendy Cadge (Cohort 11 – Harvard has co-authored "Religion and Spirituality: A Barrier and a Bridge in the Everyday Professional Work of Pediatric Physicians" with Elaine Howard Ecklund and Nicholas Short. Social Problems 56(4): 702-721. Dr. Cadge will is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.

  • Daniel Carpenter(Cohort 5 – Michigan) has co-authored “Early Entrant Protection in Approval Regulation: Theory and Evidence from FDA Drug Review ” with Susan Moffitt (Cohort 13 - Harvard), Colin D. Moore (Cohort 16 – Berkeley/UCSF), Ryan T. Rynbrandt, Michael M. Ting, Ian Yohai and Evan James Zucker in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (published online on April 22, 2009). Dr. Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University; Dr. Moffitt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University; and Dr. Moore will join the Berkeley/UCSF Program as a Cohort 16 Scholar in August 2009.

  • Daniel Carpenter(Cohort 5 – Michigan) has co-authored “Early Entrant Protection in Approval Regulation: Theory and Evidence from FDA Drug Review ” with Susan Moffitt (Cohort 13 - Harvard), Colin D. Moore (Cohort 16 – Berkeley/UCSF), Ryan T. Rynbrandt, Michael M. Ting, Ian Yohai and Evan James Zucker in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (published online on April 22, 2009). Dr. Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University; Dr. Moffitt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University; and Dr. Moore will join the Berkeley/UCSF Program as a Cohort 16 Scholar in August 2009.

  • John Cawley (Cohort 6 – Michigan) has authored “Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay to Reduce Childhood Obesity” (Economics and Human Biology, July 2008) and co-authored with John A. Rizzo. “Spillover Effects of Prescription Drug Withdrawals” (Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research,
    2008). Dr. Cawley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.

  • Dalton Conley (Cohort 3 – Berkeley/UCSF) has authored two books Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety and You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist. Dr. Conley is the Dean of the Social Sciences and Chair of the Sociology Department at New York University. He has just completed a master's degree in biology and is pursuing a Ph. D. in molecular biology and genomics.

  • NewAvraham Ebenstein (Cohort 14 -Harvard) and Kevin Stange (Cohort 55 – Michigan) have co-authored “Does inconvenience explain low take-up? Evidence from unemployment insurance” (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2010,  29(1): 111-136). Dr. Ebenstein is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Stange is a current Scholar at the University of Michigan Site.

  • MIchael Gusmano (Cohort 2 – Yale) has authored Health Care in World Cities: New York, London and Paris (Johns Hopkins University Press) with V.G. Rodwin, and D. Weisz. Dr. Gusmano is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

  • Marie Hojnacki (Cohort 5 – Michigan) has co-authored Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why with Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey Berry, David Kimball and Beth L. Leech (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Dr. Hojnacki is a Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.

  • Alexandra Kalev (Cohort 12 – Berkeley/UCSF) has authored "Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work " (American Journal of Sociology, Volume 114, Number 6). Dr. Kalev is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.

  • NewHelen Levy (Cohort 5 – Berkeley/UCSF) has co-authored "The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk" with Jonathan Gruber in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2009, Volume 23, Number 4, Pg. 25-48). Dr. Levy is a Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center and an Assistant Research Scientist , School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

  • Evan Lieberman (Cohort 7 -Yale) has authored Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS (Princeton University Press, 2009). Dr. Lieberman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

  • Christopher S. Parker (Cohort 12 – Berkeley/UCSF) has authored "Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South" (Princeton University Press, 2009); "When Politics Becomes Protest: Black Veterans and Political Activism in the Postwar South" (The Journal of Politics (2009), 71 : 113-131); "Symbolic vs. Blind Patriotism: Distinction Without Difference" (Political Research Quarterly, May 2009); and  "A Black Man in the White House: The Role of Racism and Patriotism in the 2008 Presidential Election" (Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2009), 6 : 193-217) with Mark Q. Sawyer (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) and Christopher Towler. Dr. Parker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.  Dr. Sawyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • NewHarold Pollack (Cohort 1 – Yale) has co-authored "Dental Examinations as an Untapped Opportunity to Provide HIV Testing for High-Risk Individuals" with Lisa Metsch and Stephen Abel in the American Journal of Public Health (2010 Jan;100(1):88-9.). Dr. Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chigago.

  • Craig Volden (Cohort 8 -Michigan) has co-authored  “A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion” (American Political Science Review 102(3)) with Michael M. Ting, and Daniel Carpenter(Cohort 5 – Michigan). He has also co-authored “The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion” (American Journal of Political Science 52(4)) with Chuck Shipan (Cohort 3 - Michigan). Dr. Volden is a Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University; Dr. Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University; and Dr. Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science at the University of Michigan.

New Grants

  • Karen Lutfey (Cohort 9 -Berkeley/UCSF) was awarded a Research Project Grant (R01) by the National Institute for Mental Health for her project entitled “How Does a Psychiatric Comorbidity (Schizophrenia) Affect the Management of Diabetes?” (2009-13). Dr.Lutfey has also been appointed Director of the Center on Patient-Provider Relationships at the New England Research Institutes, Inc. (NERI).

Service to the Nation

  • Kelly Devers (Cohort 1 - Berkeley/UCSF) served as a member of President Obama’s Transition Team, playing an important role in the analysis of the Health Care Community Discussions.  A report on the Community Discussions has been released by the Obama administration and may be found at: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/appA.html. Dr. Devers is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute.

  • Cecilia Rouse (former NAC member), Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, is on leave from Princeton University to serve as a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Michael Green stone (Cohort 5 – Berkeley/UCSF) is serving as Chief Economist at the Council, and Scott J. Adams (Cohort 7 – Michigan) is serving as Senior Economist for Labor, Education, and Welfare at the Council. Dr. Greenstone is 3M Professor of Economics on leave from MIT and Dr. Adams is an Associate Professor of Economics on leave from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Transitions

  • Kelly Devers (Cohort 1 – Berkeley/UCSF) has joined the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute as a Senior Fellow. Dr. Devers also holds an adjunct faculty position at George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Health Policy.

  • Ted Gayer (Cohort 6 – Berkeley/UCSF) has joined the Brookings Institution as Co-director of Economic Studies and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow.

  • John Huber (Cohort 1 -Michigan) will be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation during the 2009-2010 academic year. Dr. Huber is a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

  • Mireille Jacobson (Cohort 11 – Michigan) has joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Economist .

  • Catherine Lee (Cohort 10 -Michigan) will be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation during the 2009-2010 academic year, and she has authored"‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’ in Biomedical Research: How Do Scientists Construct and Explain Differences in Health?" (Social Science and Medicine, Volume 68, 2009). Dr. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University.

  • Susan Moffitt (Cohort 13 – Harvard) has joined the Department of Political Science at Brown University as the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.

  • Cynthia Perry (Cohort 11 – Harvard) has joined the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as a Senior Health Economist.

  • Wesley Yin (Cohort 13 - Harvard) has joined the Department of Economics at Boston University as an Assistant Professor.
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