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| | 61 | 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. | |
| 62 | 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). | |
| 63 | 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. | |
| 64 | 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. | |
| 65 | 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 | | | | |
| 66 | 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 | | | | |
| 67 | 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. | |
| 68 | 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. | |
| 69 | 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. | |
| 70 | 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. | |
| 71 | 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. | |
| 72 | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | August 28, 2003 | | | | |
| 73 | 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. | |
| 74 | Name: | Dr. Jeremy Waldron | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Professor Waldron is University Professor and Professor of Law at New York University, a position which, until recently, he held in conjunction with his appointment as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He teaches courses in legal philosophy and democratic and constitutional theory. He was previously University Professor at Columbia University, based in the law school, and before that he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Waldron was born and educated in New Zealand, where he studied for degrees in philosophy and in law at the University of Otago. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1978. He studied at Oxford for his doctorate in legal philosophy, and taught there as a Fellow of Lincoln College before moving to the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in political theory. He moved to the United States in 1987.
He has written and published extensively in political theory and jurisprudence. His books and articles on theories of rights, on constitutionalism, on the rule of law, and on democracy, property, torture, security, and homelessness are well known, as is his work in historical political theory (on Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Hannah Arendt). He is the author of more than a hundred articles and his books include The Right to Private Property (1988), Liberal Rights (1993), Law and Disagreement (1999), The Dignity of Legislation (1999) God, Locke, and Equality (2002), Torture, Terror and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010), Partly Laws Common to All Mankind: Foreign Law in American Courts (2012), Dignity, Rank, and Rights (2012) and The Harm in Hate Speech (2012).
Professor Waldron is a prolific lecturer. He delivered the Gifford Lectures (on basic human equality) at Edinburgh in early 2015, the Holmes Lectures (on hate speech) at Harvard Law School in Fall 2009, the Tanner Lectures (on human dignity) at Berkeley in Spring 2009, and the Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 2007. He also delivered the second series of Seeley Lectures at Cambridge University in 1996, the 1999 Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University, the 2011 Law Lecture at the British Academy, and the. Waldron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2011. He has had honorary doctorates in law conferred by the University of Otago and the Catholic University of Brussels. He received the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence in April 2011 and was elected to membership of the Society in 2015. | |
| 75 | Name: | Dr. Michael Walzer | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Michael Walzer has made major contributions in a number of fields, including political philosophy; moral theory; the history of social theory; the history and sociology of religion; and the history and theory of social criticism. His ability to combine theoretical, normative and historical approaches in these areas is unmatched. Over the years he has written on a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation; just and unjust war; nationalism and ethnicity; economic justice; and the welfare state. He has also played a part in the revival of a practical, issue focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms and also on a (collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. A professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study since 1980, Dr. Walzer previously taught at Princeton (1962-66) and Harvard Universities (1966-80). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. Described by Political Theory as "one of the truly significant American political thinkers of our time," Dr. Walzer has numerous publications to his credit, including The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (1965); Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (1970); Just and Unjust Wars (1977); Exodus and Revolution (1985); The Company of Critics (1988); Toward a Global Civil Society (1995); War, Politics, and Morality (2001); Politics and Passion: Towards a More Egalitarian Liberalism (2004); Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory (2007); and In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (2012). In April 2008, Michael Walzer was awarded the prestigious Spinozalens, a bi-annual prize for ethics in The Netherlands. A book in Dutch entitled Justice Without Boundaries, comprised of his lecture, other essays and an interview, was published simultaneously to the award. Michael Walzer was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990. | |
| 76 | Name: | Dr. Robert E. Ward | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | December 7, 2009 | | | | | | |
Robert E. Ward is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1948 and went on to teach political science for many years at the University of Michigan, where he also directed the university's Center for Japanese Studies. Highly regarded both in this country and in Japan, Dr. Ward is the author of works including Village Japan; Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey; Japan's Political System; and A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials in the Field of Political Science. He has also served as a member of the Committee on Problems and Policy of the Social Research Council and has taken the lead in cooperative projects involving Japanese and American scholars in a study of the United States post-war occupation of Japan. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association. | |
| 77 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Wechsler | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | April 26, 2000 | | | | |
| 78 | Name: | Dr. Myron Weiner | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | 6/3/99 | | | | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. James Q. Wilson | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2012 | | | | | | |
Dr. James Q. Wilson taught political science at Harvard University from 1961 to 1987 as the Shattuck Professor of Government. He was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy from 1985 to 1997. He then was the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Dr. Wilson was the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including The Marriage Problem, Moral Judgement, The Moral Sense, Bureaucracy, Crime and Human Nature (with Richard J. Herrnstein), Political Organizations, Thinking About Crime, Varieties of Police Behavior, The Amateur Democrat, and Negro Politics. His essays on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson. His textbook on American government is widely used on college and high school campuses. Dr. Wilson has served on a number of national commissions. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-73, and the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies. He was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991. He has been a trustee of the Rand Corporation, the Police Foundation, State Farm Mutual Insurance Company, and Protection One. Dr. Wilson has been president of the American Political Science Association (1991-1992) and received the APSA's James Madison Award for a career of distinguished scholarship and the John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in political science and public administration. He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was educated at the University of the Redlands (B.A., 1952) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1959). In 2003 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at the White House. He died March 2, 2012, at age 80 in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
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