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| | 61 | Name: | Dr. Gilbert F. White | | | Institution: | University of Colorado | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2006 | | | | |
| 62 | Name: | Dr. Robin M. Williams | | | Institution: | University of California, Irvine & Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | June 3, 2006 | | | | | | |
Robin M. Williams, Jr., is Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science Emeritus, Cornell University, and Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine (1990-2005). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He received his B.S. (1933) and M.S. (1935) degrees from North Carolina State College and the University of North Carolina. His M.A. (1939) and Ph.D. (1943) are from Harvard University. In 1989 he received a D.Sc. from University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
During the Second World War, Williams was Senior Statistical Analyst, European Theater of Operations, U.S. War Department, 1943-46. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Oslo, the University of Hawaii, and the University of California, Irvine. He is past president of the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Sociological Research Association. His professional activities include service on the Executive Committee, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council. He served as Editor of the Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series for the American Sociological Association 1977-79, and as Editor of Sociological Forum (from 1984 to 1992). Williams is co-author of The American Soldier (Vols. I-II), 1949; Schools in Transition (1954), and What College Students Think (1960). His other major writings include The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions (1947), Strangers Next Door: Ethnic Relations in American Communities (1964), American Society: A Sociological Interpretation (1st edition, 1951, 2nd edition, 1960, 3rd edition, 1970), and The Wars Within (2003). He was co-editor, with Gerald Jaynes, of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society (1989).
In 2005, he continued to teach at the University of California, Irvine, as a visiting professor. | |
| 63 | Name: | Dr. William Julius Wilson | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include urban poverty, urban race and class relations, and social inequality in cross-cultural perspective. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; When Work Disappears; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. In 2006 he published There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. A sociologist with a Ph.D. from Washington State University, Dr. Wilson has previously served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1965-71) and the University of Chicago (1972-96) and directed the latter's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. A MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, Dr. Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the Institute of Medicine. His current projects include studies of race and the social organization of neighborhoods, the effects of high-risk neighborhoods on adolescent social outcomes, and the effects of welfare reform on poor families and children. In 2017 he won the SAGE-CASBS Award. | |
| 64 | Name: | Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | 4/12/98 | | | | |
| 65 | Name: | Sir Anthony Wrigley | | | Institution: | The British Academy; University of Cambridge; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | | | | |
E.A. Wrigley (Sir Tony) was president of the British Academy from 1997-2001. Educated at Cambridge University, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1957. Initially working in the field of geography, he is now best characterized as a historical demographer, a discipline that combines geography with economic history. In 1965, he co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, serving as its co-director from 1974-94. During this time, he also held single year appointments at both the Institute for Advanced Study and Johns Hopkins University. Sir Tony has held chairs in Population Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Studies and in Economic History at Cambridge. During this period, he published, along with R.S. Schofield, the exhaustive study, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981). He also served as co-editor of an eight volume collection entitled The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. From 1988-94, he served as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and as president of Manchester College. He left both posts in 1994 to become Master of Corpus Christi College, a position he held until 2000. Sir Tony has been awarded the title of Knight Bachelor (1996) for his services to historical demography as well as the 1997 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. | |
| 66 | Name: | Dr. Robert Wuthnow | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Robert Wuthnow is Gerard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology Emeritus and former director of the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.
Robert Wuthnow is the leading U.S. scholar in the sociology of religion. He has also been a pioneer in the study of culture and civil society. He has covered such a broad range of crucial topics including the place of politics in religion, the religious socialization of children, the relationship between money and the sacred, the response of congregations to immigration and religious pluralism, the place of music and art in religion, and more. Drawing from extensive interviews and historical investigation he has closely examined religious practice and discourse and offered important overviews of their significance. Wuthnow's contributions are remarkable: 28 solo-authored books, ten edited volumes, and dozens of articles that offer careful portraits of religious life and thought in the United States.
He has won many awards, including the Martin E. Marty Award of the American Academy of Religion in 2003, the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award of the Eastern Sociological Society in 2007, the PROSE Award in Theology and Religious Studies of the Association of American Publishers in 2009, the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research, 2009, and the Andrew M. Greeley LIfetime Achivement Award in Sociology of Religion in 2018. His books include: Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis, 1987; Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in The Reformation, The Enlightenment and European Socialism, 1989; Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves, 1991; God and Mammon in America, 1994; Learning to Care: Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference, 1995; Poor Richard’s Principle: Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money, 1996; All in Sync: How Music and Art are Revitalizing American Religion, 2003; America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity, 2005; Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats, 2010; Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s, 2011; Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland, 2012; The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable, 2012; Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future, 2013; Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-belt State, 2014; In the Blood: Understanding America’s Farm Families, 2015; Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith, 2015; American Misfits and the Making of Middle Class Respectability, 2017; The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America, 2018; What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Ordinary Life, 2020; and Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy, 2021. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robert Wuthnow was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 67 | Name: | Dr. Viviana Zelizer | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, analyzes the interplay of economic activity and social practices with special reference to American experience from the 19th century onward. She is the author of books on life insurance, the value of children, and the social meaning of money. Her most recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (Princeton University Press, 2005) deals with the integration of a variety of economic circumstances and intimate personal ties, both in everyday practice and in the law. It includes the formation of couples, the provision of personal care, and social relations within households. | |
| 68 | Name: | Dr. Harriet Zuckerman | | | Institution: | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Harriet Zuckerman was Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and chaired the department 1978-1982. She became Professor Emerita in 1991. She was a Senior Vice President and a Senior Fellow of the the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1991 to 2013. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Dr. Zuckerman's research has focused on the social organization of science and scholarship. The author of Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, among other volumes, she is also a co-author of Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities and co- editor of The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community. She has also published papers in scholarly journals on such subjects as the reward system in science, scientific misconduct, intellectual property rights in science and scholarship, the history and operation of the refereeing in scientific journals, the emergence of scientific specialties, the careers of men and women scientists, the diffusion of concepts and terms in science and scholarship and the financing of humanistic research and inquiry. She has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology, and is on the board of reviewing editors of Science.
Currently a member of the board of directors of Annual Reviews, Inc., a scholarly publisher, Dr. Zuckerman has also served on the committee on selection of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as well as its educational advisory board, on the boards of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Social Science Research Council, as a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Dr. Zuckerman has held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1996 and served as its Vice President 2006-2012. | |
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