| 1 | Name: | Dr. Harriet Zuckerman | |
| Institution: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Columbia University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1996 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1937 | ||
Harriet Zuckerman was Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and chaired the department 1978-1982. She became Professor Emerita in 1991. She was a Senior Vice President and a Senior Fellow of the the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1991 to 2013. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Zuckerman's research has focused on the social organization of science and scholarship. The author of Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, among other volumes, she is also a co-author of Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities and co- editor of The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community. She has also published papers in scholarly journals on such subjects as the reward system in science, scientific misconduct, intellectual property rights in science and scholarship, the history and operation of the refereeing in scientific journals, the emergence of scientific specialties, the careers of men and women scientists, the diffusion of concepts and terms in science and scholarship and the financing of humanistic research and inquiry. She has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology, and is on the board of reviewing editors of Science. Currently a member of the board of directors of Annual Reviews, Inc., a scholarly publisher, Dr. Zuckerman has also served on the committee on selection of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as well as its educational advisory board, on the boards of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Social Science Research Council, as a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Dr. Zuckerman has held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1996 and served as its Vice President 2006-2012. | |||