Robert D. Putnam Wins Lifetime of Service Award
Faculty Associate and Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam was presented with the City Year New Hampshire Lifetime Achievement Award by Senator Kelly Ayotte and former Democratic Senator Harold Janeway. More than 300 civic and business leaders attended City Year’s 16th Annual Starry Starry Night Gala.
Lisa McGirr Wins the SHFG Henry Adams Prize
Faculty Associate and History Professor Lisa McGirr wins the Henry Adams Prize for The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. The Society for History in the Federal Government gives this award every year to an outstanding major publication devoted to the history of the federal government.
Ashley Anderson Selected a 2016 Harvard Horizons Scholar
Graduate Student Associate Ashley Anderson is one of eight students chosen to participate in the 2016 Harvard Horizons Program. The Harvard Horizons program recognizes the ideas and innovations of Harvard’s accomplished PhD students through the annual Harvard Horizons Symposium, where graduate students present their research.
Orlando Patterson Wins Gold Musgrave Medal
Faculty Associate and John Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson was awarded the 2015 Musgrave Gold Medal from the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ). The Musgrave Medals are awarded by the IOJ in recognition of notable contributions to literature, science, and the arts in Jamaica and the West Indies.
Orlando Patterson Wins Anisfield-Wolf Award
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate, was awarded the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.
Theresa Betancourt Presented With Alice Hamilton Award
Faculty Associate Theresa Betancourt, associate professor of child health and human rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was given the Alice Hamilton Award at the Chan School for her research on the role of conflict, adversity, and resiliency in children. This award recognizes the achievements of a promising junior female investigator in public health.
Suzanne Preston Blier Elected New CAA President
Faculty Associate Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and professor of African and African American studies, has been elected president of College Art Association for a two-year term, beginning in May 2016. She has been a member of the board since 2012, and will succeed DeWitt Godfrey, professor of art and art history at Colgate University.
Susan Greenhalgh Selected As Guggenheim Fellow
Faculty Associate Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and professor of anthropology, was named a Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-second competition.
Matthew Desmond Selected as WT Grant Scholar
Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Faculty Associate, has been selected as a 2016 William T. Grant Scholar. Early-career researchers receive $350,000 to execute rigorous five-year research plans that stretch their skills and knowledge into new disciplines, content areas, or methods. Desmond’s project is called “When the State Takes Your Children: How the Child Protective Services System Changes Young Parents.”
Mary C. Waters Awarded 2016 Henry and Bryna David Endowment
The Henry and Bryna David Endowment awards innovative research in the behavioral and social sciences by selecting a leading expert and researcher to write an article in their field to be presented at the National Academy of Sciences and published in Issues in Science and Technology. Faculty Associate Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, wrote and spoke on “The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the U.S.”
Sendhil Mullainathan Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Economics Professor and Faculty Associate Sendhil Mullainathan was one of 213 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Members include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and leaders. They contribute to Academy publications and studies of science, engineering, and technology policy; global security and international affairs; the humanities, arts, and education; and American institutions and the public good.
WCFIA Faculty Associates Named 2016 Cabot Fellows
Four of the eleven named Cabot Fellows from 2016 are WCFIA Faculty Associates: Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies; Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society; Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor; and John M. Mugane, Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures and Director of the African Language Program. Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships are awarded to faculty for their outstanding publications.