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Faculty Notes
History professor Louis Warren giving a talk on Buffalo Bill, who was the subject of his recent book Buffalo Bill's America.
SS faculty help develop today's undergraduates to become critical thinkers – to ask the "why" questions in the tradition of great philosophers and to answer the "why" questions of economics, anthropology, psychology and politics. They guide these answers through their own research, some of which is detailed below.
Karen Bales, assistant professor of psychology, was awarded $40,000 from the Good Nature Institute.
C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair of International Economics Rob Feenstra presented at the Zeuthen Lectures at the University of Copenhagen. The lectures will be published as an MIT press book.
Emilio Ferrer, assistant professor in psychology, received a $1.867 million R01 grant from NIH to study the neural mechanisms underlying the development of fluid reasoning from childhood to adolescence.
Gail Goodman, psychology professor, and Michael Lawler (UC Extension Center for Human Services) received a contract from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for $8.5 million, helping to fund their Center for Public Policy Research.
Middle East/South Asia studies program director Suad Joseph received $500,000 from the International Development Research Center for her work in the Arab Families Working Group and the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Centers Scholars database.
Dina Okamoto, assistant professor of sociology, received $350,000 (over the next five years) from the William T. Grant Foundation.
Almerindo Ojeda, coordinator for the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, is working on two important projects related to the Guantanamo prison situation: the Guantanamo Testimonials Project and the Neurobiology of Psychological Torture (done in conjunction with the Center for Mind and Brain). The goal of the first project is to gather testimony of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The projects were featured on national television this past spring.
The National Science Foundation awarded Native American studies professor Martha Macri $276,000 in funds to continue their J.P. Harrington database project, including transcription, coding and indexing Native American languages from California and neighboring states.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, professor of anthropology, received $42,000 in grants, and has been setting up Savannas Forever in Tanzania, designed to facilitate a process whereby the international trophy hunting business is certified for ecological, ethical and social practices.
Economics associate professor Giovanni Peri received a $166,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Migration and Human Mobility. His research also garnered a good deal of media attention this year, including National Public Radio, and The New Yorker.
Burkhard Schipper, assistant professor of economics, received $112,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Assistant professor of psychology and Center for Mind and Brain David Whitney received an NIH R01 grant from the National Eye Institute.
The Ministry of Education in China awarded economics professor Wing Thye Woo a Yangtze River Professorship at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. Woo was also appointed member of the Board of International Advisors in the Institute for China Studies at Seoul National University.
The History Project has won a $180,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support completion of its Marchand website, a collection of nearly 11,000 U.S. historical images from the collections of Roland Marchand and Karen Halttunen.
Anthropology professor Robert Bettinger received the Society for California Archeology’s Martin A. Baumhoff Special Achievement Award, and the Society for American Archaeology’s Award for Excellence in Archeological Analysis. The Baumhoff award, named in honor of the late M. A. Baumhoff, longtime professor of anthropology at UC Davis, recognizes contributions to theory and the interpretation of California’s past.
History professor Joan Cadden is completing the year as a National Science Foundation fellow.
Donald L. Donham, professor of anthropology, became editor of American Ethnologist in July.
Omnia El Shakry, assistant professor of history, received the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research fellowship.
Psychology professor Gail Goodman received the Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to developmental psychology in the service of science and society.
Greg Herek, professor of psychology, was one of four panelists in May at the presidential symposium of the 19th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, D.C.
History professor Catherine Kudlick founded the Society for Disability History.
Political science assistant professor Cindy Kam received the Phi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award in the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.
Statistics professor Katherine Pollard received the 2007-08 faculty development award from UC Davis.
David Whitney, assistant professor in psychology and at the Center for Mind and Brain, received the ASUCD excellence in teaching award for the Division of Social Sciences.
Marisol De La Cadena, associate professor of anthropology, Formaciones de Indigeneidad en America Latina, Instituto e Estudios Peruanos, Envion, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru. Co-editor, Indigenous Experience Today, Berg Publishing.
Omnia El Shakry, assistant professor of history, The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt, Stanford University Press, September 2007.
Robert Emmons, professor of psychology, Thanks! The New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
A. Katie Harris, assistant professor, history, From Muslim toChristian Granada: Inventing a City’s Past in Early Modern Spain, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Hilary Hoynes, professor of economics, is a new co-editor of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Middle East/South Asian studies director Suad Joseph, editor, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume IV, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Cindy Kam, assistant professor of political science, co-author, Modeling and Interpreting Interaction Hypotheses in Regression Analysis, University of Michigan, July 2007.
Benjamin Lawrance, assistant professor of history, Locality, Mobility, and Nation: Periurban Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland, 1900-1906, University of Rochester Press, 2007, co-editor of Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa, University of Wisconsin Press.
Lorena Oropeza, associate professor, history, co-edited Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte, Arte Publico Press, 2006.
Richard Robins, psychology professor, editor, Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology, Guilford Press, 2007.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Philip Shaver, co-author, Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics and Changes, Guilford Press, New York, 2007.
Diane Wolf, professor of sociology, Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland, University of California Press, 2007.
Aram A. Yengoyan, distinguished professor of anthropology, editor, Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, University of Michigan Press, 2006.