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Spotlight on Scholars and Alumni

(Updated June 2009 )

Promotions

  • Denise Anthony (Cohort 4 – Michigan) has been named Chair of the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

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

  • Jeb Barnes (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

  • Christopher Bonastia (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the City University of New York.

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

  • Daniel Carpenter (Cohort 5 - Michigan) has been named the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University.

  • Daniel Dohan (Cohort 4 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor in Residence in the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.

  • Brian Gran (Cohort 4 – Yale) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at Case Western Reserve University.

  • Mireille Jacobson (Cohort 11 – Michigan) has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at the University of California, Irvine.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Quincy Stewart (Cohort 13 - Michigan) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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 Berkeley/UCSF site.

New Publications

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

Service to the Profession

  • Evan Lieberman (Cohort 7 - Yale) and Julia Lynch (Cohort 10 - Harvard) were elected members of the Council for the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association (2008-2010). Dr. Lieberman is an Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Dr. Lynch is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Political Science.

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 Greenstone (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

  • Karen Albright (Cohort 11 – Berkeley/UCSF) has joined the University of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center as a Research Associate and Instructor.

  • Julie Cullen (Cohort 6 - Michigan), has become a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources and an associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics. She had taken leave from her position as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego to be a Visiting Professor of Management and Strategy in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

  • Joanna Kempner (Cohort 11 – Michigan) has joined the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor.

  • 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.

  • David Pellow (Cohort 5 – Berkeley/UCSF) has joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota as a Professor and the Don A. Martindale Chair of Sociology.

  • John Penrod (Cohort 1 – Michigan) has joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as Associate Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.

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

  • Albert Yoon ( Cohort 6 - Berkeley/UCSF)is joining the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor of Law.


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