| | 1 | Name: | Mr. Peter J. Dougherty | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society; Princeton University Press; University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Peter J. Dougherty is Director of The APS Press of the American Philosophical Society, former Director of Princeton University Press, and Fox Family Pavilion Scholar and Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. A 1971 graduate of La Salle College in his hometown of Philadelphia, Dougherty began his publishing career in 1972 as a college sales representative at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. After holding editorial positions at HBJ and several other New York-based publishers, he joined Princeton University Press in 1992 as economics editor. Dougherty was named PUP Director in 2005, and stepped down from that post in 2017, returning to editorial acquisitions at PUP until 2022.
In his Princeton editorial role, Dougherty’s list of publications included works by twelve Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance, George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton’s Identity Economics, The Essential John Nash (edited by Harold Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar), Ben Bernanke’s Essays on The Great Depression, Thomas Sargent’s The Conquest of American Inflation, Douglass North’s Understanding the Process of Economic Change, and Jean Tirole’s Economics for the Common Good.
As PUP Director from 2005 through 2017, Dougherty led the Press to sustained growth, expanding its operation in Europe and opening its office in China; publishing the Digital Edition of The Einstein Papers, launching The Princeton Legacy Library, a digitized selection of over 2,500 backlist titles, reviving The Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and initiating The Toni Morrison Lecture Series. During his directorship PUP published numerous award-winners, including two winners of the R.R. Hawkins Prize of the Association of American Publishers, Peter Cole’s The Dream of the Poem, and Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of The Needle, and several New York Times Best Sellers, among them, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s This Time is Different, Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth, and Andrew Hodges’ Alan Turing: The Enigma.
Dougherty is a past president of the Association of University Presses and a former board member of the American Association of Publishers. He is a trustee of Ithaka, an editorial board member of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, and former faculty member of the University of Denver Publishing Institute. In the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program at Penn, he conducted the publishing workshop series, Books for the Long Run. He is the author of two books, Who’s Afraid of Adam Smith? (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), and Confessions of a Scholarly Publisher (Princeton University Press, 2017). His essays have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, American Purpose, and other periodicals. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Johanna Ruth Drucker | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Ms. Louise Erdrich | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1954 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Professor Sir Michael Marmot | | | Institution: | University College London | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-), and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. He is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award; the Harvard Lown Professorship (2014-2017); the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2015), and 20 honorary doctorates. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008. At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010, which published its report 'Fair Society, Healthy Lives' in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO EURO in 2014; he chaired the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the World Health Organization’s Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO) and Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On, in 2020; Build Back Fairer: the COVID-19 Marmot Review in 2021; and the Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, for WHO EMRO, also in 2021.
Professor Marmot also chaired the Expert Panel for the WCRF/AICR 2007 Second Expert Report on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective; the Breast Screening Review for the NHS National Cancer Action Team, and was a member of The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. Early in his career, he set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health (where he was head of department for 25 years): the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and as President of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is President of the British Lung Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology; a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in recognition of his services to public health in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours. Professor Marmot is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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| 5 | Name: | Professor Dorothy E. Roberts | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Dorothy E. Roberts is 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Research Associate, Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980.
Dorothy Roberts is the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Program on Race, Science, and Society. She works at the intersection of law, social justice, science, and health, focusing on social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. She has written extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues. Noteworthy among her studies are those of community-level effects of concentrated child welfare involvement in African American neighborhoods and race consciousness in biomedicine, law, and social policy. Her book Killing the Black Body received the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Award and the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare received the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Achievement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment, Prevention, and Intervention Award.
She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty, 1997; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, 2001; Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, 2011; and Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (board, 2015- ); National Academy of Medicine, 2017; and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2022. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2023. | |
| 6 | Name: | Professor Tracy K. Smith | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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