| | 1 | Name: | Dr. David M. Kennedy | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
David M. Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, is a native of Seattle and a 1963 Stanford graduate. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1968. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1967. Professor Kennedy has long taught courses on the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America, and the history of the North American West. Graduating seniors have four times elected him as Class Day speaker, and in 1988 he was presented with the Dean's Award for distinguished Teaching. He has also received the Stanford Alumni Associations' Richard W. Lyman Award for faculty service and the Hoagland Prize for Excellence in undergraduate teaching, as well as the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999) recounts the history of the American people in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Kennedy is also the co-author of a textbook in American History, The American Pageant, now in its eighteenth edition. Birth Control in America was honored with both the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. Over Here was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. Freedom From Fear was a Main Selection of the Book-of- the-Month Club and the History Book Club, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman Prizes, as well as the English-Speaking Union's Ambassador's Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's California Book Award Gold Medal, all in 2000. Professor Kennedy has been a visiting professor at the University of Florence, Italy, and has lectured on American history in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Scandinavia, Canada, Britain, Australia, Ireland, Russia, and China. In 1995-96, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford in 2003. He has served as chair of the Stanford History Department, as director of Stanford's Program in International Relations, as founding director of Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, and as associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has served on the Advisory Board for the Public Broadcasting System's "The American Experience" and has chaired the Test Development Committee for the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement Program in American History. He has also served as a director of the CORO Foundation, and on the Board of the Pulitzer Prizes and the California Academy of Sciences. He is also on the Board of Environmental Traveling Companions, a service organization for the handicapped. In 2015 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed him to the Advisory Council for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Society. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Burton G. Malkiel | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | | | | |
Burton Malkiel is one of the world's leading academic analysts of the financing of private firms and public enterprise. His research has provided new insights, new analytic methods and important applications for theory and practice. He is sought after in academia, government and private business. In addition, he has wide ranging interests in the arts, in genealogy and in a variety of other fields. Dr. Malkiel earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964. He taught at Princeton from 1964-81, chairing the economics department from 1974-75 and 1977-81, before moving to Yale University to become dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies. In 1988 Dr. Malkiel returned to Princeton as Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. James G. March | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | September 27, 2018 | | | | | | |
James March is correctly regarded as the inventor and developer, with Herbert Simon, of the entire field of organizational research. His work is quintessentially interdisciplinary as demonstrated by his contributions to leading academic journals in sociology, psychology, political science, and economics. His works on organizations and decision making have shaped thinking about rationality, learning, and change in business firms, universities, and public organizations. His contributions to contemporary thinking include ideas about bounded rationality, the political nature of business firms, organizational slack and search, limitations in the concept of power, temporal sorting (garbage can) models of choice, the problems of balancing exploitation and exploration in adaptive systems, the myopia of learning and the symbolic elements in organizational life. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. James J. Sheehan | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
James Sheehan is a most distinguished historian of modern Europe. His German History, 1770-1866 is a classic and, like all his works, hailed in this country and in Europe. His work has exceptional depth and breadth, and he understands the futility of compartmentalization. His felicitous style reflects the fact that he is a humanist at heart. He has steadily expanded his vision, and his most recent work on German museums reflects his deep concern with the world of art and architecture. He is an outstanding scholar and mentor, an admired academic citizen, a man of utter integrity and fair mindedness. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1964), Dr. Sheehan has taught at Northwestern University (1964-79) and Stanford University (1979-present), where he has served as Dickason Professor in the Humanities since 1986. He is the former chairman of Stanford's history department (1982-85, 1986-89) and has been honored with membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Royal Historical Society and the Orden pour le Mérite. Dr. Sheehan's many publications include German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (1978, 1982, 1995); The Career of Lujo Brentano: A Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (1966); German History, 1770-1866 (1993); and Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (2008). He is also the co-editor of An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (1991). | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Hugo Freund Sonnenschein | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | Death Date: | July 15, 2021 | | | | | | |
Hugo Sonnenschein was the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus of the University of Chicago. He served as president of the university from 1993-2000. Previously he was provost of Princeton University (1991-93) and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania (1988-91). Professor Sonnenschein's research has focused on theories of consumer and firm behavior, general economic equilibrium, game theory and social choice. In the early 1970s he published work that largely determined the general structure of aggregate demand functions. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in game theory and price theory. Dr. Sonnenschein is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1990), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 1984) and a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001). He served as President of the Econometric Society in 1988 and was the editor of its journal, Econometrica, from 1977 to 1984. He is former chairman of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees at the University of Rochester. His other current board responsibilities include the Board of Directors of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley), the Board of Directors of the Institute for the International Education of Students, the Board of Directors of Van Kampen Mutual Funds, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Barcelona Graduate School. Dr. Sonnenschein received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1961 and his Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University in 1964. He is the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from numerous universities, including Tel Aviv University and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. In addition to Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Sonnenschein has served as Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and the University of Massachusetts. He has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University, University of Paris XII, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. He is married to Elizabeth Gunn Sonnenschein, an epidemiologist. They have three daughters and five grandchildren. Hugo Sonnenschein died on July 15, 2021 in Chicago, IL. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Eugen Weber | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1925 | | | Death Date: | May 17, 2007 | | | | |
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