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| | 61 | Name: | Dr. Lucian Pye | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | September 5, 2008 | | | | | | |
Lucien W. Pye, Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the nation's leading authorities on comparative politics, and especially on the politics of Asian countries, particularly China. A former president of the American Political Science Association (1988-89), Professor Pye was a political scientist whose speciality had been the comparative study of political cultures and political psychology. His works have illuminated the manner in which the fundamental impulses of Asian cultures find reflection in contemporary Asian political developments. A major theme of his research is the impact of modernization on traditional Asian societies. With intellectual roots in anthropology, psychology, and psychoanalysis, as well as political science, Professor Pye has compared in numerous published works the political behavior and political cultures of Asian nations.
He had been an advisor on foreign affairs to the United States government, both the executive branch and Congress, and he was a member of many organizations concerned with U.S.-Asian relations. He made a major contribution in shaping the direction of scholarly research on Asia in the United States.
Professor Pye served on the influential Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Council from its founding in 1955 and was chairman of the Committee from 1963-72. He was a trustee of the Asia Foundation from 1963-2004, a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1966-82, and director of the Council's China Project. He had been a member of the executive committee of the Asia Society, chairman of the Advisory Board of the Universities Service Centre in Hong Kong, and member of the Board of Governors of the East-West Center in Honolulu. As Vice-Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Professor Pye made numerous trips to China since the resumption of diplomatic contacts between the U.S. and China in 1971. Lucian Pye was born in 1921 in Shansi province, China. He attended the North China American School near Beijing. In 1943 he received his B.A. from Carleton College. During World War II he was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He completed graduate studies at Yale University, receiving his M.A. degree in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1951. From 1949-52 he was an instructor and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and in 1951-52 he was a research associate in International Relations at Yale University. From 1952-56 he was a research associate in the Center for International Studies at Princeton University. Professor Pye joined the MIT faculty in 1956. In 1958, under the auspicies of the MIT Center for International Studies, he undertook field work in Burma in order to research the cultural and psychological sources of the country's problems in political development. During the 1960's, he conducted field work in Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, and India. In 1955-56 he was visiting lecturer at Columbia University, and in 1959-61 visiting lecturer at Yale. On retiring from MIT he was a visiting professor at George Washington University in 1993, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1994, and at Balliol College, Oxford University in 1995. Since 1990 he has been an associate in research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Dr. Pye has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Before his presidency he was earlier elected vice-president and a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association. He has been a member of the board of the Association of Asian Studies. From 1963-67 he was a member of the selection committee of the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, and since 1975 he has been on the selection board of the Luce Scholar program. Professor Pye was a recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal of the graduate school of Yale University, the Harold D. Lasswell Award at the International Society of Political Psychology, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He received the Auxiliary Research Award for the Social Science Research Council. And in 1963-64 he was a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California. Professor Pye was the author/editor of 27 books. Lucian Pye died September 5, 2008, in Boston after a long illness. He was 86. | |
| 62 | Name: | Professor Judith Resnik | | | Institution: | Yale Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on procedure, large-scale litigation, federal courts and federalism, feminist theory and transnational equality laws. Prior to joining Yale, she was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center. She has also been a visiting professor at New York University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Chicago Law Schools. Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and New York University School of Law, where she held an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellowship.
Throughout her career, Judith Resnik has helped to shape understandings of how the federal judiciary increasingly functions as a corporate body, with multiple tiers and kinds of judges who are often managerial in their efforts to encourage settlement in lieu of adjudication. Her work in this field demonstrates the increasing privatization of courts, analyzes the forces producing this trend, and proposes interventions to preserve the public dimension of adjudicatory processes. In addition to books for students such as Adjudication and its Alternatives: An Introduction to Procedures (co-authored with Owen Fiss, 2003) and Processes of the Law: An Introduction to Courts and Their Alternatives (2003), she is the author of the chapter Civil Processes in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (eds. Peter Cane & Mark Tushnet, 2003). She recently coauthored a book for the general public with Dennis Curtis entitled Representing Justice (2010), which gives an overview of the historical representations of justice. Representing Justice won the Scribes 2012 Book Award, two PROSE Awards for Excellence, and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. Her articles include Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning Article III , 113 Harvard Law Review 924 (2000); and Managerial Judges, 96 Harvard Law Review 374 (1982). Her work has also prompted her to become one of a few American scholars thinking about the cultural import of government construction of courthouses and about the iconography of justice.
Professor Resnik also brings her interest in feminist theory to discussions of federalism. She has helped to illuminate how assumptions about the roles of women and men have influenced the allocation of authority to state and federal systems in the United States (e.g. her essay Categorical Federalism: Jurisdiction, Gender and the Globe, 111 Yale Law Journal 619 (2001) and have affected the openness of American law to transnational equality movements.
Professor Resnik pursues her projects in both their theoretical and their practical dimensions. She has chaired the Section on Procedure, the Section of Federal Courts, and the Section on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools, has served on committees of the American Bar Association, and was a consultant to the Institute for Civil Justice of RAND. She was instrumental in persuading members of the federal judiciary to undertake studies of the effects of gender, and she served as a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force which, in 1994, was the first in the federal system to report on data collected by judges and lawyers in the nine states comprising the circuit. Professor Resnik has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees, including before the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Senate's role in the nomination process and before a committee of the Canadian House of Commons about how to select Supreme Court justices. She is also an occasional litigator and court-appointed expert. Currently, she is a member of the American Law Institute's project on Aggregate Litigation and a managerial trustee of the International Association of Women Judges.
At Yale, Professor Resnik organized a conference on Women, Justice, and Authority. She is a co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum, a university-wide group aimed at fostering scholarship about gender and community for women at Yale. She is also the founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and Fund, which provides fellowships to Yale Law School graduates and summer stipends to undergraduates at Yale, Brown, and Harvard, and which supports seminars and programs on public interest law for law students.
Professor Resnik has been honored by the National Association of Women Judges, and she has received the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association. The American Bar Foundation named her its Outstanding Scholar of the Year in 2008. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 63 | Name: | Professor Sir Adam Roberts | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Sir Adam Roberts, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, specializes in international security, international organizations, and international law, including the laws of war. He has also worked on the role of civil resistance against oppressive regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations.
He was born in Penrith, England, on 29 August 1940. He studied Modern History at Oxford University, where he won the Stanhope Historical Essay Prize in 1961 and was awarded a B.A. degree in 1962. His main academic jobs have been: Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1968-81; Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, 1981-86; Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and Fellow of Balliol College, 1986-2007. He has held visiting appointments at New York University, Tokyo University, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington DC.
He was a Member of the Council, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London, 1985-91; Governor, Ditchley Foundation, 2001-11; Member of the Council, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 2002-08; and Member of the UK Council for Science and Technology, 2010-13. He has been a Member, UK Defence Academy Advisory Board, since 2003. In 1990 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and 2009 to July 2013 was President of the British Academy.
In 2002 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), ‘for services to the study and practice of international relations’. He is an Honorary Fellow of LSE and of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has honorary degrees from King’s College London (2010), Aberdeen University (2012), and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (2013). Adam Roberts was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.
His numerous publications (many jointly authored or edited) include The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression (1967); Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance (1969); Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence (2nd edn., 1986); Documents on the Laws of War (3rd edn., 2000); United Nations, Divided World: The UN’s Roles in International Relations (2nd edn., 1993); Hugo Grotius and International Relations (1990); The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 (2008); Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (2009); and Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order (2012). He has published articles in numerous journals, including American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, International Affairs, International Security, Survival, and The Times Literary Supplement. He has also given expert evidence to several parliamentary and judicial inquiries.
He is married with two grown-up children, and lives in Oxford. His interests include mountaineering and cycling. | |
| 64 | Name: | Dr. James C. Scott | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | Death Date: | 07/19/2024 | | | | | | |
James C. Scott is currently Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Forest & Environmental Studies at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from that same institution in 1967. Between earning his Ph.D. and beginning to teach at Yale, he was Professor of Political Science from 1967-1976 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
James C. Scott began as an on-site-searcher in Southeast Asia, then expanded into works of general importance for political science, anthropology, and history. These works have reached wide audiences. How do ordinary people use "weapons of the weak" against political and economic elites? What is the nature of the "moral economy" that peasants abide by? How do central "seeing eye" states "read" their populations, and so what? In the U.S., a notable instance of that "reading" is the federal government's division of the continent into cadastral land plots in the 1780s courtesy of Thomas Jefferson. Scott has a warm view of anarchism, as seen in his recent Against the Grain. Why have powerful ancient city states like those in Central America risen and, perhaps for good reason, fallen?
Scott has won a number of prizes, among them the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2010, the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association in 2015, and the Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan of the International Political Science Association in 2018. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978-79. His works include: The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, 1977; Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, 1987; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, 1990; Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 1999; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, 2010; Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, 2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ( 1992) and the Association for Asian Studies (president, 1997). James C. Scott was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
| 65 | Name: | Dr. Ian Shapiro | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town and Nuffield College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences, and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz) and Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. Ian Shapiro was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. He will step down from his role as Henry R. Luce Director on June 30, 2019 after 15 years of service. | |
| 66 | Name: | Dr. Judith Nisse Shklar | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/92 | | | | |
| 67 | Name: | Professor Reva Siegel | | | Institution: | Yale Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she has taught courses in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, legal history, and transnational equality law. Her writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. In her writing on antidiscrimination law, she has shown how challenges to a status order may lead to "preservation through transformation,: in which laws enforcing race or gender status evolve in rule structure and rhetoric as they are contested; antidiscrimination law that fails to adapt legitimates inequality. See, for example, Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects: The Evolving Forms of Status-Enforcing State Action, 49 Stan. L.Rev.1111 (1997); "The Rule of Love": Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy, 105 Yale L.J. 2117 (1996); and more recently, Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, 124 Yale L.J. 2516 (2015) (with Doug NeJaime). Her theoretical and practical writing in constitutional law is attentive to the interaction of social movements and other popular interpreters of the Constitution with judges and other state officials; her work shows how constitutional conflict helps steer constitutional development and helps promote the attachment of those who may be deeply estranged from official pronouncements of the law. See, for example, Community in Conflict: Same-Sex Marriage and Backlash, 64 U.C.L.A. L. REV. 1728 (2017); The Supreme Court, 2012 Term - Foreword: Equality Divided, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2013); Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 191 (2008); The Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman Protective Antiabortion Argument, 57 Duke L.J. 1641 (2008); Roe Rage: Backlash and Democratic Constitutionalism, 42 Harv.C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 373 (2007) (with Robert Post); Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA, 94 Cal. L. Rev 1323 (2006); Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles Over Brown, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 1470 (2004); and She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 947 (2002). Her books include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin, and Akhil Reed Amar, 2018); Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Linda Greenhouse, 2012); The Constitution in 2020 (edited with Jack M. Balkin, 2009); and Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (edited with Catharine A. MacKinnon, 2004). Professor Siegel was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018; she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History. She serves on the board of Advisors and the Board of Academic Advisors of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law. She earned a B.A. and M.Phil in American Studies, as well as a J.D. at Yale University. She began teaching law at University of California, Berkeley. | |
| 68 | Name: | Dr. Kathryn Sikkink | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
In January 2014 Kathryn Sikkink became the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She had been Regent's Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. from ColuIn January 2014 Kathryn Sikkink became the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She had been Regent's Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her publications include The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America; Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (co-authored with Margaret Keck and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order, and the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (co-edited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp); and The Hidden Face of Rights: Towards a Politics of Responsibilities. Sikkink has been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim fellow. She is a fellow of the American Association for Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial board of the International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, and the American Political Science Review. In 2013 she received the Susan Strange Award from the International Studies Association. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 69 | Name: | Dr. Beth A. Simmons | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
Beth Simmons is a leading scholar of international law and institutions. She has done more than any other scholar to demonstrate the impact of treaties on state behavior and has pioneered studying the international diffusion of policies and institutions, combining historical, case-study, and sophisticated statistical analysis. Her first prize-winning book, Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years 1923-1939, brilliantly integrated political science with economics in a study of an important period of international political economy; her second prize-winning book, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, powerfully demonstrated how international human rights agreements, which lack strong international enforcement, can become effective through mobilization by domestic groups. She has also done extremely important work on the politics and law of international monetary affairs and capital market regulation. Her overall standing in international relations and political science more generally is reflected in the fact that she is the second person to win the Woodrow Wilson Award twice (She is preceded only by Robert Dahl). | |
| 70 | Name: | Dr. Theda Skocpol | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She also served as Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard from1999 to 2006. Dr. Skocpol received her B.A. in 1969 from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in 1975 from Harvard University. In 1996, she served as President of the Social Science History Association, an interdisciplinary professional group; and from 2001-03 she served as President-Elect and then President of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has been awarded honorary degrees by Michigan State University, Northwestern University, and Amherst College. The author of nine books, nine edited collections, and more than seven dozen articles, Dr. Skocpol is recognized as one of the most cited and widely influential scholars in the modern social sciences; her work has contributed to the study of comparative politics, American politics, comparative and historical sociology, U.S. history, and the study of public policy. Her first book, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979), won the 1979 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1980 American Sociological Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. A leader in historical-institutional and comparative research, Dr. Skocpol edited Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (1984) and co-edited the influential Social Science Research Council collection Bringing the State Back In (1985). For the past fifteen years, Dr. Skocpol's research has focused on U.S. politics in historical and comparative perspective. Her Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992), won five scholarly awards: the J. David Greenstone Award of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association; the Outstanding Book Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; the 1993 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association, given annually for "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs"; the 1993 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association; and the 1993 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa, given to honor "a comprehensive study that contributes significantly to historical, philosophical, or religious interpretations of the human condition." Dr. Skocpol's recent books include Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government (1996); Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (2003, winner of the 2004 Greenstone Award); Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2005), What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, 2007), and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (with Vanessa Williamson, 2012). Active in civic as well as academic life, Dr. Skocpol was included in policy discussions with President Bill Clinton at the White House and Camp David. She writes both for scholarly outlets and for publications appealing to the educated public. Married since 1967 to Bill Skocpol, an experimental physicist who teaches at Boston University, Theda Skocpol is the proud mother of Michael Allan Skocpol, born in 1988. | |
| 71 | Name: | Dr. Rogers M. Smith | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
A leading scholar of American Public Law and the politics of membership, Rogers Smith’s work proceeds on both normative and empirical tracks. His early normative scholarship defended a liberal jurisprudence, spelling out its implications for U.S. Supreme Court decisions and American constitutional purposes. His empirical work documented competing visions of citizenship in U.S. history, culminating in his widely acclaimed Civic Ideals. This work details the liberal and republican traditions more richly than had hitherto been attempted, but also excavates long neglected traditions that cleave to various nativist, religious, racially supremacist, and other exclusionary ideologies. It recast debates about American exceptionalism and provided the impetus for Smith’s subsequent normative scholarship. In that work he has argued that political communities and political statuses should be reformed so as to be more inclusive, in the course of which he has made extensive contributions to the literatures on affirmative action, immigration, and minority representation. | |
| 72 | Name: | Dr. Harold E. Stassen | | | Institution: | Stassen, Kostos & Mason | | | Year Elected: | 1949 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | March 4, 2001 | | | | |
| 73 | Name: | Mr. Bryan Stevenson | | | Institution: | Equal Justice Initiative; New York University School of Law | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | |
| 74 | Name: | Professor Geoffrey R. Stone | | | Institution: | University of Chicago Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. A member of the law faculty since 1973, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002). After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971, Mr. Stone served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Stone has been an editor of the Supreme Court Review since 1991, and is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law, including Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007), War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007), Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era (Chicago 2002), and Sex and the Constitution (2017). Perilous Times received eight national book awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the L.A. times Book Prize for History. His most recent book, Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court, was published January 2020.
Mr. Stone is currently chief editor of a twenty-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is being published by the Oxford University Press. Mr. Stone’s next major book, Sexing the Constitution, will explore the history of sex from ancient Greece to contemporary constitutional law. Mr. Stone is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society, a member of the national Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a member of of the board of the Chicago Children’s Choir. | |
| 75 | Name: | Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan | | | Institution: | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Educated at Cornell and Oxford Universities, Kathleen Sullivan received her J.D. degree in 1981 from Harvard University Law School where she won the Ames Moot Court Competition and the George Leisure Award for Excellence in Advocacy. She served for nearly a decade on the faculty of Harvard Law School before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. She was a former Dean, and the Stanley Morrison Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School until 2009. In 2009 she joined the law firm Quinn Emanuel as partner and Chair of the firm's national Appellate Practice.
Professor Sullivan is viewed by many as a leading teacher and scholar of constitutional law today. She is the author of numerous articles in the field and co-author with the late Gerald Gunther (APS, 1981) of the classic casebook Constitutional Law. She is in demand as a commentator on constitutional issues - in The New York Times and other publications' Op-Ed pages and on national media programs such as the PBS MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC's Nightline. A lucid and incisive lecturer, she is the recipient of teaching prizes at both Harvard and Stanford Universities. She was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 76 | Name: | Professor Cass R. Sunstein | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Cass Sunstein returned to Harvard Law School as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in September 2012 after taking a leave to serve for two years in the Obama administration as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He was named University Professor in February 2013. Sunstein is the most prolific, versatile, and widely cited legal scholar of his generation. His extensive work on administrative law has been profoundly influential, helping to bring insights from cognitive science and behavioral economics to bear on problems of risk analysis and regulation. He has also been among the most influential scholars of constitutional law, developing the insights of civic republicanism and legal realism to show that claims of individual liberty are often better understood as problems of public distribution or social entitlement. Sunstein has written eloquently of the importance of democratic debate and deliberation, and the need to avoid tendencies toward extreme or polarized thought in settings as diverse as juries, appellate panels, and readership on the Internet. A frequent contributor of public legal commentary in venues like the New Republic, Sunstein is well-known for his ability to bring exceptional clarity to complex legal topics, and to integrate legal thought with the latest developments in social science. He is the author of: The Partial Constitution, (1993); Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, (1996); (S. Breyer, et al) Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy, (1999); (R. Epstein) The Vote: Bush, Gore & the Supreme Court, (2001); The Cost-Benefit State, (2002); Why Societies Need Dissent, (2003); The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, (2006); Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, (2006); Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide, (2009); On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done, (2009); Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media (2017), Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide (2018), and Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know (2020). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2010. He won the Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in 2007 in recognition of his intellectual leadership in Constitutional Law and Political Science, including in particular his profound research and writing demonstrating the complex interplay between jurisprudential constructs and the day by day resolution of legal conflicts. He was also named as a 2018 recipient of the Holberg Prize. | |
| 77 | Name: | Dr. Philip Tetlock | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
Philip E. Tetlock was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954 and completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in1979. He has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1979–1995; 2000-2010) and the Ohio State University (1995-2000). Since 2011, he has been the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with cross-appointments in Psychology, Political Science and the Wharton School. He has received awards for research accomplishments from the American Psychological Association, American Political Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society of Political Psychology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and four foundations (MacArthur, Sage, Grawemeyer, and Carnegie).
Over the last four decades, Tetlock's research program has explored five themes:
1. the concept of good judgment, with special emphasis on using "tournaments" as a method of exploring correlates and determinants of: (i) subjective-forecasting accuracy in world politics; (ii) proficiency at drawing correct causal/counterfactual lessons from history in complex simulations of world politics (Tetlock, 2005; Tetlock & Belkin, 1996; Tetlock & Gardner, 2015);
2. the impact of accountability on judgment and choice, with special emphasis on the socio-cognitive strategies that people use to cope with different forms of accountability (who must answer to whom, for what, and under what ground rules?) (Tetlock, 1992; Lerner & Tetlock, 1999);
3. the constraints that sacred values place on the thinkable, with special emphasis on three types of proscribed cognition (taboo trade-offs, for bidden base rates and heretical counterfactuals) (Tetlock, 2003);
4. the difficult-to-define distinction between value-neutral and value-charged scholarship, with special emphasis on debates on whether certain research programs in social psychology have or have not crossed that line (Sniderman & Tetlock, 1986; Tetlock & Mitchell, 2009);
5. the role that hypothetical-society experiments can play in helping to disentangle fact from value judgments in macro-distributive-justice debates, such as income inequality. | |
| 78 | Name: | Mr. Laurence H. Tribe | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Laurence H. Tribe is known both nationally and globally as one of the nation's greatest scholars of constitutional law. His groundbreaking 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law combined historical material with highly original contemporary doctrinal insight, making our nation's constitutional jurisprudence elegantly accessible not only to American students and practitioners but also to the drafters of new constitutions in South Africa and Eastern Europe. The treatise has been so often cited that Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold once commented, "It may well be that no book, and no lawyer not a member of the Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law." An extraordinarily popular teacher of large constitutional law classes at Harvard, Tribe has also published numerous law review articles on virtually every aspect of American constitutional law. His early training as a mathematician has inclined him to reject consequentialist constitutional theories in favor of "structural," "constitutive," and "relational" inferences from the Constitution's internal architecture. Tribe's career has also encompassed dazzling advocacy before the U.S. Supreme Court, a deep commitment to civil rights and civil liberties, and frequent testimony before Congress. He currently serves as Senior Counselor for Access to Justice at the U. S. Department of Justice as well as Carl M. Loeb University Professor (on leave) at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. in 1966 from Harvard Law School. Other works he has authored include: Channeling Technology Through Law (1973); The American Presidency: Its Constitutional Structure (1974); The Supreme Court: Trends and Developments (1979); God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History (1985); Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990); The Invisible Constitution (2008); with Joshua Matz, Uncertain Justice (2014); and To End a Presidency [2018]. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010 and has won the Society's 2013 Henry M. Phillips Prize in recognition of his contributions to understanding the United States Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court in its interpretation and its 2018 Henry Allen Moe Prize in recognition of his paper "Reflections on the 'Natural Born Citizen' Clause as Illuminated by the Cruz Candidacy" presented at the Society’s 2016 April Meeting and printed in the June 2017 Proceedings. | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. David B. Truman | | | Institution: | Mount Holyoke College | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | August 28, 2003 | | | | |
| 80 | Name: | Dr. Sidney Verba | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | March 4, 2019 | | | | | | |
Sidney Verba was one of the most prominent political scientists of his time. His books explored the many dimensions of political participation, and he is credited with profoundly changing the field of political behavior and the political science profession. When he won the Warren E. Miller prize, the citation asserted that he was "unsurpassed in the quality of his research, in his devotion to social science standards, and his concern with improving society through social science research." The Skytte Foundation, whose prize is one of the world's largest and most prestigious in the social sciences, said that Dr. Verba was chosen "for his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy." In addition, he was a brilliant leader of the Harvard University Library, having brought the many libraries in that system into a collaborative working relationship. The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard for 23 years, Dr. Verba retired from these posts in 2007. A former president of the American Political Science Association, he published such works as Small Groups and Political Behavior (1961); The Civic Culture (1963); Caste, Race and Politics (1969); Participation in America (1972); Vietnam and the Silent Majority (1972); The Changing American Voter (1976); Participation and Political Equality (1978); Injury to Insult (1979); Equality in America (1985); Elites and the Idea of Equality (1987); Designing Social Inquiry (1994); Voice and Equality (1995); and The Private Roots of Public Action (2001). Sidney Verba died on March 4, 2019 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 86. | |
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