Announcements
Each quarter, the ISERP newsletter publicizes awards, press coverage, and special appearances merited by our faculty, fellows, and affiliates. A complete chronology of these announcements is available below.
1. January 2008
Lila Abu-Lughod received the American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize for her book Dramas of Nationhood and the American Anthropological Association's Middle East Section's Outstanding Senior Scholar Award, given for scholarship and mentoring.
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15. September 2007
Congratulations to Professor Fredrick Harris on receiving the 2007 Mary Parker Follett Award for best article published in politics and history in the period 2005-2006.
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15. September 2007
Congratulations to Fredrick Harris who, with his co-authors, has received the American Political Science Association's 2007 Ralph J. Bunche Award for Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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15. September 2007
Congratulations to Professor Gregory Wawro who, with Eric Schickler (UC Berkeley), received the American Political Science Association Legislative Studies Section's Richard J. Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies published in 2006.
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15. September 2007
Congratulations to Robert Shapiro, who has been elected and is currently serving as President of the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR).
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30. August 2007
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is the 2007 recipient of the C. Wright Mills Award for his book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006).
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1. August 2007
With support from NYU and ISERP, Kanchan Chandra (NYU), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia), and Kimuli Kasara (Columbia) will lead a seminar series on ethnic politics starting in fall 2007.
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1. August 2007
Congratulations to Sam Haselby (Graduate Fellow 2003-05), who was selected to be a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2007-10).
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30. March 2007
The Spring 2007 issue of Political Analysis, edited by ISERP Fellow Robert Erikson, is now available. The goal of Political Analysis, the only journal dedicated to publishing methodology papers in political science, is to advance the field of political methodology, broadly defined, and articles cover the entire range of interests and problems centering upon how political enquiry can be conducted.
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27. March 2007
The Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Program will host an open house for prospective Fellows on March 30, 2007 at 4pm in Room 270B of the International Affairs Building. The program recruits doctoral students from the social sciences, humanities, and related fields who would benefit from incorporating the methods, approaches, and knowledge of the different social sciences into their research.
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21. March 2007
A New York Observer article featuring South Asian New Yorkers working in the arts, fashion, literature, and academia profiled Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy (CURP) at ISERP.
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22. December 2006
ISERP affiliates and their research have been actively represented in the news media.
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22. December 2006
ISERP welcomes Amira Ibrahim as its newest staff member. Taking over the role of Business Manager, Amira brings with her a background in finance, which she gained as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. She earned her B.A. in Economics from Barnard College in 2005.
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15. October 2006
ISERP affiliates and their research have been actively represented in the news media.
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15. October 2006
The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) conducts research and training on tensions among religion, toleration, and liberalism in the world. Directed by Alfred Stepan, it opened in July 2006, with initial funding from the Luce Foundation.
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15. October 2006
ISERP is pleased to welcome Christine Baker-Smith, Sheila Chanani, Emily Hawe, Robert Stewart, and Gia Storms.
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1. October 2006
Congratulations to Alessandra Casella, who has been honored with a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Political Science for 2006-07.
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7. July 2006
The ISERP website won the Quality Universal Design Award from Accessites.org.
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31. May 2006
ISERP affiliates and their research have been actively represented in the news media.
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31. January 2006
Expertise is a central phenomenon in modern life. It provides a legitimate mode of speaking about and influencing public affairs. It serves as a crucial web connecting state, society, and nature. It is where we place most of our hopes for progress and welfare.
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31. January 2006
Did the polls "get it wrong" in the 2004 election? Do certain polls have a "liberal" or "conservative" bias, as alleged by partisans in the campaign? Did journalists accurately cover polling controversies in 2004, or did they contribute to them? These and other questions are addressed in a special December 2005 issue of Public Opinion Quarterly.
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15. January 2006
As always, ISERP affiliates and their research have been actively represented in the news media.
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18. September 2005
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26. August 2005
ISERP-affiliated faculty are internationally recognized for their academic expertise and are frequently featured in news articles, on television programs, and in radio segments.
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13. July 2005
Professor David Epstein and Professor Sharyn O'Halloran have been selected to receive the 2005 Decade of Behavior Research Award in recognition of their research on democracy issues.
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13. June 2005
Congratulations to Ira Katznelson (Political Science), winner of the 2005 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory. Katznelson is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History and the Director of the American Institutions Project at ISERP.
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16. May 2005
Bruce Link, Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, is one of the five faculty recipients of the 2005 Presidential Teaching Awards at Columbia University.
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