| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Paula S. Fass | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley; Rutgers University, New Brunswick | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Paula S. Fass is the Professor of the Graduate School and Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught for the past four decades. She has also been the Distinguished Visitor in Residence at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Trained as a social and cultural historian of the United States at Columbia University, she has over the last decade been active in developing the field of children's history and worked to make this an interdisciplinary field with a global perspective. She was the president of the Society of the History of Children and Youth, which she helped to found, from 2007-2009. Her books include Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (2007); Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (1997); Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (1989); The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977). With Mary Ann Mason, she edited Childhood in America (2000), the first anthology in children's history, a project she carried forward as Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (2004). She is currently editing the Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World. Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir (2009) her most recent book, is a family memoir that recounts and examines her experiences as the daughter of concentration camp victims eager to understand the history of her new country and culture.
Paula Fass has contributed to many collections in areas such as education, immigration, globalization, children's history and children's policy. She has toured Italy as a Department of State lecturer, and has also lectured in Sweden (as the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor of the Swedish Research Council), Poland, Chile, France, Turkey, and Israel. Paula Fass often appears on radio and television as a commentator on childhood in history and contemporary culture and has been widely interviewed on celebrity trials and the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. She is working on a history of American parent-child relations over the course of two hundred years, from the founding of the republic through the global era. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Paul Krugman | | | Institution: | Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; The New York Times; Citu University of New York; Luxembourg Income Study | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Paul Krugman is the author or editor of more than 20 books and 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes, including: (with E. Helpman) Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy, 1985; Exchange-Rate Instability, 1988; The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s, 1990; Rethinking International Trade, 1990; (with G. de la Dehesa, C. Taylor) The Risks Facing the World Economy, 1991; Geography and Trade, 1991; Currencies and Crises, 1992; World Savings Shortage, 1994; (with E. Graham) Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S., 1995; Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations, 1995; Development, Geography, and Economic Theory, 1995; (with G. de la Dehesa) The Self Organizing Economy, 1996; (with M. Fujita, A. Venables) The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions and International Trade, 1999; The Return of Depression Economics, 1999; Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan, 2001; The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, 2003; The Conscience of a Liberal, 2007; The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, 2008; End This Depression Now!, 2012. Editor: Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics, 1986; 1991; (with A. Smith) Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy, 1994; and Currency Crises, 2000. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal in 1991 and in 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In 2013 he received the Four Freedoms Award in Freedom of Speech. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. His current academic research focuses on economic and currency crises. He joined the New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992 and the American Philosophical Society in 2011. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Glenn Cartman Loury | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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Glenn Loury is an outstanding economist who has combined a track record of important and influential papers in applied economic theory with a profound commitment to the use of quantitative social science to address issues of race and inequality in America, a subject in which he is considered one of the leading intellectuals of the day. Having earned his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, he has written foundational papers in many different literatures of economics. Among the subjects he has considered are the role of weak capital markets in the transmission of inequality; the role of market structure in promoting innovation; optimal taxation; exploitation of natural resources; the implications of affirmative action policies for worker and employer perceptions and decisions; the role of social capital in influencing economic behavior and outcomes; and the social and economic consequences of racial stigma. He has also been influential in terms of mentoring young economists interested in issues of race and inequality. In recognition of his work, he has won the American Book Award (1996), the Christianity Today Book Award (1996), and the John von Neumann Award (2005), and has been member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2000). His books include: One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, 1995; The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, 2002; Race, Incarceration and American Values: The Tanner Lectures, 2008. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2011. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Robert C. Post | | | Institution: | Yale Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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Robert Post is Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School, having previously served as Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at the same institution. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Professor Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and affirmative action. He has written dozens of articles in legal journals and other publications, including "Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash" (with Reva Siegel, Harvard Civil-Rights Civil-Liberties Law Review, 2007); "Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era" (William & Mary Law Review, 2006); "Foreword: Fashioning the Legal Constitution: Culture, Courts, and Law" (Harvard Law Review, 2003); and "Subsidized Speech" (Yale Law Journal, 1996). He has also written and edited numerous books, including For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009); Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, and Reva Siegel, 2001); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995). He has an A.B. and Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Robert J. Sampson | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Robert Sampson’s work has focused on the social organization of cities, contributing path-breaking research on the effects of neighborhoods on crime and social inequality. Early on he began tracking the careers of men born during the Depression and incarcerated during adolescence, following them to age 70. He demonstrated marked differences in the extent of later criminal behavior, and that its forms were linked to the social bonds they formed as well as changes in their individual attitudes. Later, his studies of race and crime, on the social meaning and implications of “visible” disorder in cities, the tangled effects of social inequality and its spatial concentrations, and the character of collective civic engagement in cities from the 1960s through the current period have sharpened our understanding of these important phenomena. He is known for having introduced careful distinctions between individual and contextual effects and for using new spatial techniques in systematic social observation to address old questions such as why the distribution of poverty across Chicago neighborhoods has remained stable despite marked shifts in population within them. Sampson has consistently shown a fine-tuned sense for important research problems, has devised original procedures for data collection and analysis and in so doing, has strongly influenced the agenda for studies of urban phenomena, world-wide. He earned his Ph.D. from State University of New York in 1983. He is the author of several works, including: (with T. Castellano, J. Laub) Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Its Relation to Neighborhood Characteristics, 1981; (with J. Laub) Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, 1993; (with G. Squires, M. Zhou) How Neighborhoods Matter: The Value of Investing at the Local Level, 2001; (with J. Laub) Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, 2003. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2005, the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and the American Philosophical Society in 2011. He was recently awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2011). | |
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