| Fall 2007
Dr. Virginia Chang has received a 2007 Physician Faculty Scholars Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is one of fifteen medical school faculty nationwide selected for this award.
Fall 2006
Paul Root Wolpe has been elected as a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest medical society in the US. It is rare for a non-physician to get this honor.
Summer 2006
Dr. Joanna Kempner (PhD, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, August 2004) won the Roberta Simmons Award for outstanding dissertation from the Medical Sociology Section of ASA. She was also elected to the Medical Sociology Sector's COuncil as a Member-at-Large.
Dr. Charles Bosk and Dr. Arthur Johnson were selected as co-recipients of the
2006 Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring. The reception in their honor has been scheduled for October 9, 2006 at 5PM.
Please hold the date on your calendar, announcements regarding the awards and the location of the reception will be posted here and in The Almanac early this fall.
To: Sociology and Demography Students and Faculty
Re: Best Paper Award, Sarah Winslow-Bowe
From: Jerry A. Jacobs
I am pleased to report that Sarah Winslow-Bowe has won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Sociology of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. Her paper, entitled “Wives’ Income Advantage: A Temporary or Persistent Phenomenon?” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
For those of you who will be in Montreal, she will be receiving this award at 6:30 PM on Friday, August 11 at the Sociology of the Family Reception. This fall, Sarah will be starting a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Spring 2006
Lawton Quality of Life Award, presented by the Philadelphia Corporation for
Aging. Renee will be the featured speaker at a dinner to be held in her
honor on May 31 at the Downtown Club.
Please join us in congratulating our own Faye Allard who is one of the ten recipients of the 2006 "Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students." Nominated by their students, this is an honor of which all the recipients should be proud.
David Grazian has received a Summer Fellowship to participate in the Visiting Professor Program of the Advertising Educational Foundation. This program "embeds" the visiting professor in a major advertising agency for a period of two weeks to learn how these organizations function.
At the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, two awards were given (biennially) to scholars in the field of population.
The Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement recognizes early career achievement in population studies and demography, broadly defined. It honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievements of population professionals who have attained their highest professional degree within the previous 20 years. The award commemorates the memory and creative contributions of Clifford C. Clogg to the field of quantitative methods and labor force demography.
The Mindel C. Sheps Award is jointly sponsored by the PAA and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. It is given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology. Individuals may be nominated on the basis of important contributions to knowledge either in the form of a single piece of work or a continuing record of high accomplishment.
See http://www.popassoc.org/awards.html for further details.
This year, both awards went to Penn faculty.
Hans-Peter Kohler, Associate Professor of Sociology, is the winner of the 2006 Clogg Award.
Samuel H. Preston, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and Professor of Sociology, is the winner of the 2006 Sheps Award.
Elijah Anderson has been chosen to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Northwestern University. The degree will be awarded at their commencement exercises on June 16.
The Academy of Experimental Criminology (which sponsors the Journal of Experimental Criminology) has selected Larry Sherman to win the 2006 Joan McCord Award for distinguished contributions to experimental criminology, the third award given since Professor McCord's death in 2004 and the first given to a US citizen. Previous winners were psychologists Richard Tremblay, F.R.S.C., University of Montreal, and David Farrington F.B.A., Cambridge University. Larry will deliver the McCord Memorial Lecture, which will be published in the JEC, in Los Angeles at the American Society of Criminology meeting this November.
Fall 2005
Congratulations to Kristen Harknett, Virginia Chang and John Kimberly who recently received University Research Foundation awards, announced in this week's Almanac. Their project titles are:
Kristen Harknett: Sex Ratio Imbalances in U.S. Cities: Effects on Relationship Turnover and Familial Commitment.
Virginia CHang: Prevalence and Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity in the U.S. Medicare Elderly Population.
John Kimberly: The Impact of Paradigm Shifts on the Diffusion of Innovations in Medical Technology.
Spring 2005
Sackler Awards
We are happy to announce that two Sociology majors, Lindsay Owens and Monica Trujillo, have been awarded Sackler Undergraduate Research Scholarships for work they will undertake this summer.
Lindsay, whose faculty advisor is Prof. Jason Schnittker, will study "Public Knowledge and Attitudes about Human Genetic Testing." Monica's research, "Analyzing the Effects of Bilingual Education in California, will be carried out under the supervision of Prof. Camille Charles. Please join us in congratulating Lindsay and Monica.
Susan Watkins is the 2005 recipient of the Irene B. Taueber Award, given by the Population Association of America in recognition of either an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population or an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research.
We are pleased to announce that two sociology majors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Please join us in congratulation Leah Naylor-Watson and Rachel Rouhana.
December 2004
We are pleased to announce the 2004 winners of
awards from the Beth and Richard Sackler Undergraduate Research
Scholarship Fund. They are Martha Coe and Rachel Rouhana, both seniors
who will be traveling abroad over winter break to gather data for
their senior theses. Martha will go to the Czech Republic to conduct
research on cultural understandings of adoption and adoptees, which
she will compare with the U.S. Rachel will visit Beirut to investigate
the situation of foreign women who work as domestics, the great
majority of whom are Sri Lankan.
Please join us in congratulating them Rachel and Martha.
Sackler funding allows students to undertake more ambitious research
projects than might otherwise be possible. We will be accepting
applications for Sackler Awards again in the spring.
September 2004
There will be a reception to celebrate the publication
of the September volume of The Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, "Being Here and Being There:
Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries." Edited
by Elijah Anderson, Scott Brooks (PhD in Sociology, University of
Pennsylvania, May 2004), Raymond Gunn and Nikki Jones (PhD in Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania, August 2004), the volume brings together
a marvelous combination of senior scholars and students of urban
ethnography, sharing insights from their fieldwork while reflecting
on the strengths and challenges of their methods.
August 2004
Penn Sociologist Awarded $5.2 Million MacArthur Foundation Grant
PHILADELPHIA- Frank Furstenberg, professor of sociology at the
University of Pennsylvania, has received a four-year, $5.2 million
grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in
support of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, which
he chairs.
The Network, established in 2000 with MacArthur support, examines
the changing nature of early adulthood and the new challenges facing
people aged 18 to 34 as they make the transition to become self-sufficient
adults.
During the past four years, the Network has conducted interviews
and gathered data to map the transition and how it varies for specific
populations. What is emerging from the early research is an understanding
in the research community and key social institutions that early
adulthood is a distinctive life stage.
The MacArthur grant will be used to fund the final stages of research
exploring the psychological and social dimensions of development
that occur as individuals move from their late teens to early thirties.
The Network will study three programs: "Opening Doors"
at select community colleges, the Defense Department's "National
Guard Challenge" and Americorps.
"We hope that by studying the psychological development of
young people as they become adults and examining the relevance of
the institutions that had originally accompanied them during their
journey to adulthood, we will be able to shed light on the needs
of young people to help them as they prepare for adulthood. This
calls for reexamining a number of public policies,Furstenberg said.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with headquarters
in Chicago, is a private, independent grant-making institution dedicated
to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in
the human condition.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=659
June 2004
Just wanted to give you a remind that the second season of the history
detectives begins on Monday June 21 at 9pm, one of the "gumshoes"
is own Dr. Tukufu Zuberi.
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What unknown stories lurk in your attic or backyard? HISTORY DETECTIVES
answers that burning question during the second season of the critically
acclaimed series, premiering on PBS Monday, June 21, 2004. Revealing
the historical significance of artifacts, buildings and legends
from cities and towns across America, each hour-long episode follows
four gumshoes as they tackle three intriguing and unanswered mysteries.
Utilizing the best in the fields of forensics, research, architecture
and archaeology, HISTORY DETECTIVES takes old-fashioned sleuthing
into the 21st century. The 12-part weekly series attempts to unlock
mysteries.
For more information see
http://www.pbs.org/previews/history_detectives/
April 2004
Three new faculty members will be joining Penn
Sociology in 2004-2005:
William Bielby – Currently Professor of
Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Bill’s
research interests include work and labor markets, quantitative
methods, sex and gender, and popular culture. In spring 2005, he
will teach a graduate statistics course.
Kathryn Edin – Currently Associate Professor
of Sociology at Northwestern University, Kathy’s research
interests include race, class and gender, family, and qualitative
methods. She will teach introductory sociology in the fall, and
a graduate field methods course in the spring.
Kristen Harknett – Currently a Robert Wood
Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.
Kristen specializes in family demography, poverty and inequality.
She will teach introductory research methods in both fall and spring.
March 2004
Richard Ingersoll, associate professor
of education and sociology, is the winner of the 2004 AACTE Outstanding
Writing Award for his book, Who Controls Teachers' Work? Power
and Accountability in America's Schools (Harvard University
Press, 2003.) The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
(AACTE) is a voluntary organization of colleges and universities
that prepare the nation's teachers and other educational personnel.
AACTE is considered "the leader for innovation in teacher education."
February 2004
Kim Scheppele was featured in
the February 26, 2004 issue of the CURRENT. Here is an excerpt.
For the entire article, please follow this link: CURRENT
Article.
GOVERNMENT: A Penn Law professor discovers good
advice is not always heeded
Scheppele: Serious flaws in Afghan constitution
BY JASON BARTLETT
With nation-building in emerging democracies at the center of today’s
international news, much attention has been paid to the important
task of creating stable governments. Kim Scheppele, professor of
law and sociology, has played an important part in this worldwide
process, most recently as an advisor for a United Nations task force
charged with helping to construct Afghanistan’s new constitution.
Scheppele was brought in by the UN specifically
to provide recommendations about the judiciary and constitutional
review of the new government. As an expert in the field, Scheppele
has had global experience, including work on the Hungarian constitution
after the fall of the Soviet Union. Even with the credentials of
Scheppele and the UN team, however, most of their recommendations
went unheeded in the drafting of the constitution.
Jason Schnittker has been appointed
the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social
Sciences. His research explores sociodemographic differences
in beliefs about health, physicians and medicine as well as the
epidemiological associations between race, socioeconomic status,
and health.
January 2004
Grace Kao was on WHYY's Radio Times
with Marty Moss-Coane January 20, 2004 for an hour to talk about
"Chink's Steaks".
From the Radio Times website: Chink's Steakhouse
- after 55 years of business, this restaurant's name has come into
question. It's a pejorative to Asian Americans and a Philly institution.
We'll talk with Myung Oak Kim, staff reporter for the Philadelphia
Daily News and Grace Kao, Director of the Asian American Studies
Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Janice Madden is the 2004 recipient of the Fritz
Pollard Alliance Game Ball Award for her research on racial differences
in hiring and firing of NFL coaches. A report of this research will
appear in the February issue of the Journal of Sports Economics.
Janice suspects that she is the only Penn faculty member ever to
have received a Game Ball Award.
Fall 2003
Linda Aiken has just received
the Ernest A. Codman Award for excellence in the use of outcomes
measurement to achieve improvements in the quality and safety of
health care.
The award came from the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), who issued the following statement:
"Linda Aiken, PhD, has been an influential
leader and researcher in the field of outcomes research for two
decades. Her many accomplishments include developing and testing
measures and research methods to document the significant contributions
of nurses to hospital quality of care and patient outcomes. She
also created survey techniques and measures to collect standard
information on organizational features and culture across large
numbers of hospitals. This information provided the basis for understanding
how certain characteristics of hospitals can alter processes of
care that can either protect or imperil patients.
Congratulations Linda!"
Charles Bosk has been named a
member of the The School of Social Science at the Institute for
Advanced Study. It takes as its mission the analysis of societies
and social change through the research and publications of its permanent
members (faculty) and visiting members. To this end, it casts a
wide net over the traditional fields of anthropology, politics,
economics, and sociology, and also embraces history, philosophy,
law and literary studies. While diverse in its annual membership,
it also offers a yearly concentration on a defined theme in order
to attract interested scholars and encourage useful discourse concerning
such topics. It encourages social scientific work with an historical
and humanistic bent but also entertains applications in history,
philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics.
Jerry Jacobs is the new editor
of the American Sociological Review.
The American Sociological Review [http://www.asanet.org/journals/asr/]
The American Sociological Review is the official
journal of the American
Sociological Association [http://www.asanet.org/pubs/pubs.html].
Please follow this link to an article about Dr.
Jacobs, editor of the American Sociological Review. http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/apr03/fn5.html
Grace Kao recently received a
Distinguished Service Award from the James Brister Society (a Penn
Alumni Group whose goal is to promote diversity at Penn). The award
is for "excellence in promoting diversity at the University
of Pennsylvania." Five administrators received the award, but
Grace was the only faculty member.
Beth Soldo was recently elected
as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
July 2003
Tukufu Zuberi
History's Mysteries Solved
A Massachusetts sea captain wonders: Did runaway
slaves actually set sail for freedom on an old whaling vessel he
cares for?
Detective Tukufu Zuberi is on the case. Zuberi,
the director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies, is one of the
four people in charge of the “detective bureau” that
will check out fascinating tales from the past on the new PBS series
“History Detectives,” which premieres in July.
http://www.upenn.edu/pip/?pip=mysteries
November 2002
Randall Collins has been awarded
the Ludwick Fleck Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science.
The award was for the best recent book, for "The Sociology
of the Philosophies." Please join us in congratulating Randy
on receiving this well-deserved honor.
October 2002
Ross Koppel has received the
2002 Sociological Practice Award from the Society for Applied Sociology.
This award is given to an "individual who has demonstrated
how sociological practice can advance and improve society."
In 1998, Koppel received the William Foote Whyte Award for Distinguished
Career in the Practice of Sociology given by the American Sociological
Association, Section on Sociological Practice. He is the only person
to have won both awards.
Paul Wolpe has been elected as
a Director-at Large for the Board of the
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities,
the bioethicists' professional society. He has also just been
appointed Associate editor of the American Journal of Bioethics.
September 2002
Jerry Jacobs has won the 2002
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research,
which is bestowed annually by The Center for Work and Family at
Purdue University and the Center for Work and Family at Bost College.
His paper (coathored with Kathleen Gerson) was selected by a committee
of 40 scholars from over 2,000 papers in 47 journals.
November 2001
Tukufu Zuberi has been named "one
of the 76 Smartest Philadelphians" by Philadelphia magazine.
According to the magazine (p. 145), Tukufu "combines a demographer's
facility for numbers and statistics, an orator's gift for rhetoric,
and a lightning-quick mind that provides total recall of nearly
every book he's read -- down to the footnotes."
October 2001
Ivar Berg
The award to Michael Spence of the Bank of Sweden's
Medal for Economic Science, on Oct 10th, for his work on "Asymmetric
Information" (1973) has generated curiosity, here and there,
about my own efforts on education as a ticket to better paying jobs,
in Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery (1970). For the
record, Michael's citation reports, about his work, that he demonstrated
"how agents in a market used signaling to counteract the effects
of adverse selection" by employers. "Spence's main contributions
were to develop and formalize this idea and to demonstrate its implications".
In a footnote to this sentence the Academy reports further that
"Informal versions of this idea can be traced to the sociological
literature; see Berg (1970)".
For Professor Berg's complete statement: Berg.nobel.htm
For more go to: www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/ecoadv.pdf
May 2001
Ivar Berg is awarded the coveted School of Arts
and Sciences Ira Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The annual award, now in its 17th year; is the highest teaching
honor given by the school. Professors are nominated for the award
by their peers and though student letters. The final decision is
made by a five-member faculty committee. SAS Dean Samuel Preston
said the award is given to professors who excel at promoting learning
in SAS classes. "It is a combination of very good course organization,
of presentation, of communication to students and a certain unmeasurable
factor of connection with students," Preston said. Professor
Berg said he believes this award represents the connections he has
made with his students over the years. Our congratulations to Professor
Berg.
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