| | 81 | Name: | John R. Commons | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1862 | | | Death Date: | 5/11/45 | | | | |
| 82 | Name: | Dr. Philip E. Converse | | | Institution: | University of Michigan | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | December 30, 2014 | | | | | | |
Philip Converse was a leading scholar in the field of political behavior for three decades. Having conducted important research on political opinion and electoral behavior, he was central to transforming the descriptive study of government into today's comparative and analytical study of politics. His 1964 article "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" held that public opinion tended to be inconsistent across issues, unstable over time and not particularly considerate of ideology. Political Representation in France (1986), his comprehensive work with Roy Pierce, was immediately recognized as a landmark study, winning the 1987 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award. Another work, The American Voter (1960), written with Angus Campbell, made proficient use of data from National Elections Studies, a seminal set of surveys of American public opinion that were carried out at the University of Michigan. Dr. Converse was associated with the University of Michigan since receiving his Ph.D. from that institution in 1958. He served as director of the university's Institute for Social Research and as Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science, among other positions. Philip Converse died December 30, 2014, in Ann Arbor at age 86. | |
| 83 | Name: | Dr. Karen S. Cook | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
KAREN S. COOK is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford University. She is also the founding Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) at Stanford and a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Cook has a long-standing interest in social exchange, social networks, social justice and trust in social relations. She has edited a number of books in the Russell Sage Foundation Trust Series including Trust in Society (2001), Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Emerging Perspectives (with R. Kramer, 2004), eTrust: Forming Relations in the Online World (with C. Snijders, V. Buskens, and Coye Cheshire, 2009), and Whom Can Your Trust? (with M. Levi and R. Hardin, 2009). She is co-author of Cooperation without Trust? (with R. Hardin and M. Levi, 2005). She has served on numerous National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committees, including the council, and currently is a member of the DBASSE advisory committee. She also serves as chair of the NSF advisory committee for the social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE). In 1996, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2004 she received the ASA Social Psychology Section Cooley Mead Award for Career Contributions to Social Psychology. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Karen Cook conducts research on social interaction, social networks, social exchange, and trust. She is among the foremost scholars who have researched the role of trust dynamics in shaping organizational and institutional outcomes. Her early work focused on how power differentials shaped processes of social exchange within organizations and between individuals within networks, criticizing microeconomic theory for overlooking the social structures within which actors are embedded. Her latest work focuses on the origins and generation of trust in human society and its role in promoting effective use of social capital. In particular, she has done much influential research on the role of interpersonal and social relations in physician-patient relations. She argues that a general trust of others liberates people from safe but closed relationships and facilitates the creation of social capital in a variety of human domains. | |
| 84 | Name: | Dr. Frederick Cooper | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Frederick Cooper has been studying Africa since his undergraduate days at Stanford in the 1960s. His approach to African history, in research and teaching, has emphasized changing perspectives: zooming in through detailed research on the particularities of place and time within a diverse continent, zooming out to explore connections across space and patterns over time. He has been concerned with how to understand and employ social theory in relation to historically specific situations. The “East African” phase of his career resulted in three books on slavery and post-emancipation agricultural labor in Zanzibar and Kenya (1977, 1980) and on urban labor in Kenya (1987). While these works were influenced by the literature on comparative slavery in the Americas and on labor and capitalist development in Europe, Cooper did not take western cases as a paradigm against which the rest of the world should be held but insisted that African material should lead to rethinking conceptual schemes themselves. During these years, Cooper also wrote field-defining essays on slavery in Africa (1979) and on Africa’s relation to the world economy (1981). He began to work on the politics of colonialism in collaboration with the anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler, resulting in an international conference and a co-edited book Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997). Meanwhile, Cooper’s archival research turned toward the study of the relationship of labor to decolonization and economic development and expanded to include French Africa, ending up with a monograph (1996) as well as a co-edited book on development and the social sciences (1997).
Cooper’s interest in social science theory was developed through critical essays on the concepts of identity, globalization, modernity, nation-state, and empire, collected in his 2005 book Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, which earned him the reputation among his friends as “concept cop.” He was encouraged by years of conversation with his spouse, the Russian historian Jane Burbank, to think beyond the 1st-3rd world orientation and modernist bias of colonial studies. Burbank and Cooper took the leap of developing a year-long graduate course at the University of Michigan on empires in world history. When they both moved to New York University in 2002, they took the course with them and then developed an undergraduate course on the same theme. Their teaching in turn led them to write Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010), which has been translated into nine languages, won a book prize from the World History Association, and was a key element in the award to Burbank and Cooper of the Arnold Toynbee Prize in 2023 for contributions to global history. This spousal collective produced another book, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia (2023). Cooper, along the way, wrote a monograph on citizenship and decolonization in France and French Africa (2014) and synthetic and analytical books on Africa’s place in the world (2014) and citizenship in world history (2018), as well as a textbook on contemporary African history (2nd ed. 2019).
Cooper’s teaching career went from Harvard to Michigan to NYU. He regularly taught courses in African history as well as on slavery, post-emancipation societies, colonialism, economic development, and empires. He has worked with PhD students who have gone on to stellar careers. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in France, where he has many close friends and colleagues, and he has given talks at universities and research centers in Africa, Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. In addition to Empires in World History, others of his books and articles have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian. His research, over the years, in Great Britain, France, Kenya, and Senegal has been aided by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and, at an early career stage, the American Philosophical Society. His writing benefitted from residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Center on Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History in Berlin, the Humanities Institute at Michigan, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. He retired from teaching in 2020 but continues to write, lecture, and participate in a variety of academic events. | |
| 85 | Name: | Edward S. Corwin | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1878 | | | Death Date: | 4/29/63 | | | | |
| 86 | Name: | Leonard Slater Cottrell | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1899 | | | Death Date: | 3/20/85 | | | | |
| 87 | Name: | Dr. Ruth Schwartz Cowan | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an historian of science, technology and medicine, with degrees from Barnard College (BA), the University of California at Berkeley (MA) and The Johns Hopkins University (PhD).
She was a member of the History Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1967 to 2002, attaining the rank of Professor in 1984. Between 1997 and 2002 she was the Chair of the Honors College at SUNY-Stony Brook; she also served as Director of Women's Studies from 1985-1990. She became Professor Emerita at Stony Brook in 2002.
In July, 2002 she became Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Between 2003 and 2008 and again in 2011-2012 she was Chair of the Department. She became Professor Emerita at Penn in July, 2012.
Professor Cowan is the author of six books and numerous articles. Her books are: Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press, 2008); The Social History of American Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); (with Neil M. Cowan) Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1989) [revised second edition published as Our Parent's Lives: Everyday Life and Jewish Assimilation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996)]; Sir Francis Galton and the Study of Heredity in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Garland Press, 1985); and More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
With Daniel J Kevles and Peter Westwick she has recently begun a commissioned sesquicentennial history of the National Academy of Science. Currently, she is also working on a revision (for 2016) of her textbook, A Social History of American Technology.
Professor Cowan has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer and a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. She has had grants in support of her research from the Sloan Foundation, NSF, NEH, NIH (through ELSI) and the ACLS.
Professor Cowan has been awarded the Leonardo daVinci Medal and the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology as well as the J.D. Bernal Prize of the Society for the Social Study of Science. She was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2014.
Professor Cowan is active in the Society for the History of Technology (President,1992-1994). She serves on the editorial boards of Social Studies of Science and Science and Culture. She has been a member of the Smithsonian Council, and of the IEEE History Committee. For several years she was the Chair of the US National Committee, International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, a member of the Visiting Committee for the Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Trustee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She is a founding board member of the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) and is currently the Chair of the Research Community Advisory Board, North Shore/LIJ Hospital System on Long Island. | |
| 88 | Name: | Prof. Archibald Cox | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | May 29, 2004 | | | | |
| 89 | Name: | Dr. Gordon A. Craig | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1963 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | October 30, 2005 | | | | |
| 90 | Name: | Robert T. Crane | | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1880 | | | Death Date: | 10/23/62 | | | | |
| 91 | Name: | Dr. Lawrence A. Cremin | | | Institution: | Columbia University & The Spencer Foundation | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1925 | | | Death Date: | 9/4/90 | | | | |
| 92 | Name: | Dr. Lee J. Cronbach | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | October 1, 2001 | | | | |
| 93 | Name: | Dr. William J. Cronon | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | | | |
William Cronon studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. His research seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. His first book, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983), was a study of how the New England landscape changed as control of the region shifted from Indians to European colonists. In 1984, the work was awarded the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. In 1991, Cronon completed a book entitled Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, which examines Chicago's relationship to its rural hinterland during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1991, Dr. Cronon was awarded the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for the best literary work of non-fiction published during the preceding year; in 1992, it won the Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history published during the previous year, and was also one of three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in History; and in 1993, it received the George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History and the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award from the Forest History Society for the best book of environmental and conservation history published during the preceding two years. In 1992, he co-edited Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past, a collection of essays on the prospects of western and frontier history in American historiography. In 1995 he edited an influential collection of essays entitled Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, examining the implication of different cultural ideas of nature for modern environmental problems. He is currently at work on a history of Portage, Wisconsin, that will explore how people's sense of place is shaped by the stories they tell about their homes, their lives, and the landscapes they inhabit. He is also completing a book entitled Saving Nature in Time: The Past and the Future of Environmentalism (based on the Wiles Lectures which he delivered at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in May 2001) on the evolving relationship between environmental history and environmentalism, and what the two might learn from each other. In July 1992, Dr. Cronon became the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after having served for more than a decade as a member of the Yale University History Department. In 2003, he was also named Vilas Research Professor at UW-Madison, the university's most distinguished chaired professorship. He has been President of the American Society for Environmental History and serves as general editor of the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series for the University of Washington Press. During the spring of 1994, he organized and chaired a faculty research seminar on "Reinventing Nature" at the University of California's Humanities Research Institute in Irvine, California. In 1996, he became Director of the Honors Program for the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a post he held until 1998, and from 1997-2000 he served as the founding Faculty Director of the new Chadbourne Residential College at UW-Madison. He has served on the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society since 1995, and on the National Board of the Trust for Public Land since 2003. Cronon has been elected president of the American Historical Association for the year 2012. Born September 11, 1954, in New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Cronon received his B.A. (1976) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds M.A. (1979), M.Phil. (1980), and Ph.D. (1990) degrees from Yale and a D.Phil. (1981) from Oxford University. Dr. Cronon has been a Rhodes Scholar, Danforth Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and MacArthur Fellow; has won prizes for his teaching at both Yale and Wisconsin; and in 1999 was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. | |
| 94 | Name: | Dr. Alfred W. Crosby | | | Institution: | University of Texas at Austin | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 14, 2018 | | | | | | |
Alfred W. Crosby received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1961. He served as professor of history at Washington State University for eleven years before joining the University of Texas, Austin in 1977 as Professor of American Studies. He was a National Institutes of Health fellow, 1971-73, and a Guggenheim fellow, 1987-88. Alfred Crosby pioneered investigation of the biological side of European expansion, transforming older ideas of how and why European settlers thrived overseas in temperate climes. By analyzing the "cloud of organisms" which accompanied the Europeans - disease germs, pests, weeds, domesticated animals and plants - all accustomed to living in company with one another, Dr. Crosby made clear for the first time the crushing force of what he calls "ecological imperialism." This is a great advance in the understanding of our past. His last book is about time and its measurement in late medieval and early modern Europe, so he is a general historian as well as an expert in biological and epidemiological history. His books include: America, Russia, Hemp and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812 (1965); The Columbia Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972); Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (1976); Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986); The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange and Their Historians (1987); Germs, Seeds and Animals (1994); The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 (1997) (French, 2001); and Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (2002). He was also the co-editor of Studies in Environment and History. Dr. Crosby was presented the Medical Writer's Association Award in 1976, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1988, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History in 2001. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. Alfred W. Crosby died March 14, 2018, at age 87 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. | |
| 95 | Name: | Dr. Philip Curtin | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | June 4, 2009 | | | | | | |
Philip Curtin was born in 1922 in West Virginia. He earned a history degree from Swarthmore College in 1948 and a doctorate from Harvard University in 1953. Following a brief tenure as an assistant professor at Swarthmore, Dr. Curtin joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1956, and over his 20 years there helped to establish African history as a field of academic inquiry. He has conducted extensive research on the Atlantic slave trade between 1600 and 1800, and his book The Atlantic Slave Trade (1969) became the starting point for all future research on the slave trade and comparative slavery. His innovative research significantly revised past understanding of the subject and delved for the first time into such areas as the health problems associated with the slave trade. Dr. Curtin's work eschews traditional ethnocentric perspectives in favor of the tools and techniques of economics, anthropology and history. The recipient of MacArthur and Fulbright Fellowships, Dr. Curtin was most recently professor of history at Johns Hopkins University from 1975 through his retirement in 1998. | |
| 96 | Name: | Robert E. Cushman | | | Year Elected: | 1949 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1889 | | | Death Date: | 6/9/69 | | | | |
| 97 | Name: | Dr. Robert A. Dahl | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | February 5, 2014 | | | | | | |
Robert Alan Dahl received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1940 and joined the faculty, teaching for more than 40 years before retiring in 1986 as the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Scientist in Sociology. In his work he demonstrated an unusual ability to move between empirical research of a difficult and original type and, on the other hand, theoretical synthesis. His many books include Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City (1961), in which he examined power structures in New Haven, Connecticut; Democracy and Its Critics (1989), in which he observed that modern countries, in lacking full citizen participation and policy control, fail to meet the ideals of a democracy; and How Democratic is the American Constitution? (2002), in which he argued that the United States Constitution is not nearly as democratic as it ought to be. Dr. Dahl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, and a past President of the American Political Science Association. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1960. Robert Dahl died on February 5, 2014, at age 98 in Hamden, Connecticut. | |
| 98 | Name: | Dr. Robert Choate Darnton | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
Robert Darnton studies 18th-century France with special interest in the literary world, censorship and the history of books. In 2007 he was named director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, succeeding longtime library director and fellow APS member Sidney Verba. Dr. Darnton graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964. After working briefly as a reporter for The New York Times, he was elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1965-68). He joined the Princeton History Department in 1968, serving on the faculty for nearly 40 years. He was the Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History until his appointment at Harvard in 2007. Throughout his career Professor Darnton has concerned himself with the literary world of Enlightenment France, often focusing not on the philosophes but on writers outside the first rank and the material they produced. Using the archives of an 18th-century Swiss publishing house, he has brought to light a vast illegal literature of philosophy, atheism and pornography that was smuggled into France in the decades before the Revolution. In the course of this work Dr. Darnton has developed an influential anthropological approach to history, has advanced novel interpretations of the French Revolution, and has helped to create the field known as "the history of the book." He also has a longstanding interest in electronic books, Web publishing, and other new media. His books include Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968), The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979), The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984), The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1989), Revolution in Print: the Press in France ,1775-1800 (1989, Daniel Roche, coeditor), The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a recent memoir, Almost a Family (2011). Dr. Darnton has been the recipient of the Leo Gershoy Prize of the American Historical Association (for The Business of Enlightenment), a MacArthur Fellowship (1982-87), The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for The Great Cat Massacre), Princeton University's Behrman Humanities Award (1987), the Gutenberg Prize (2004), the American Printing History Association Prize (2005), and the National Humanities Medal (2011). In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work. Dr. Darnton is currently working on two books: a study of the libelles, a genre of scandalous books involving defamation of government officials and prominent people that flourished in France in the second half of the 18th century; and a large-scale history of publishing and the book trade in late-18th-century France. Eventually he plans to write a new history of the origins of the French Revolution. | |
| 99 | Name: | Dr. Paul A. David | | | Institution: | Stanford University; University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | Death Date: | January 23, 2023 | | | | | | |
Paul Allan David is Professor of Economics Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History in the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Currently he is Titular Professor of Research on the Digital Economy at l'Ecole Polytechnique and l'Ecole National Superior de Telecommunications (Paris). Dr. David is the author of more than 160 journal articles and contributions to edited volumes, as well as of the author and editor of several books including Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth (1975) and The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (2003). He was among the pioneering practitioners of the "new economic history" and is known internationally for wide-ranging contributions in the fields of American economic history, economic and historical demography, and the economics of science and technology. Investigation of the conditions that give rise to "path dependence" - the persisting influence of historical events in micro- and macro-economic phenomena - is a recurring theme in his research. Two main areas of contemporary economic policy research have emerged in his work in the past two decades: the evolution of information technology standards and network industries, and the influence of legal institutions and social norms upon the funding and conduct of scientific research in the public sector, and the interactions between that latter and private sector R&D. Dr. David currently leads an international research project on the organization, performance and viability of free and open source software. Many professional honors have been bestowed upon Dr. David in the course of his career, including election as Fellow of the International Econometrics Society (1975), Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge, as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1979), Vice-President, and President of the Economic History Association (1988-89), as Marshall Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (1992), Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy (1995), Member of Council of the Royal Economics Society (1996-2002), and Member of the American Philosophical Society (2003). He was made Professor of Economics and Economic History by the University of Oxford, "in recognition of distinction" (1997) and was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Torino (2003). He serves on the Advisory Boards of Science Commons, l'Ecole Paris de l'Economie, Alta Scuola de Politechnico Milano and Turino, and on the Executive Committee of the international organization CODATA. Dr. David's extensive service as a consultant to international organizations has included work for the World Bank, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, the United Nations University Institute, the OECD, several directorates of the European Commission of the EU, the European Committee for Future Accelerators, the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.), the Treasury and the Ministry of Science and Technology of New Zealand, and the German Monopolies Commission. He also has had extensive service experience as a consultant to U.S. government agencies and foundations, including the National Academy of Sciences (National Research Council), the National Science Foundation, the Departments of Commerce and Energy, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and other public and non-profit organizations. He has been a non-executive director of La Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (2002-07). | |
| 100 | Name: | John W. Davis | | | Year Elected: | 1924 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | Death Date: | 3/24/55 | | | | |
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