SOCIAL SCIENCES AWARDS AND HONORS

Political Science Profs Honored

Members of the political science faculty were honored at the 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Gary W. Cox, Thad Kousser and Mathew D. McCubbins were presented with the 2005 State Politics and Policy Quarterly Best Paper Award, for their .What Polarizes Parties? Preferences and Agenda Control in American State Legislatures.. The award recognizes the best paper on the American states presented at any political science conference during the calendar year.

Cox and McCubbins were also honored for their book Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representativesi (Cambridge UP, 2005) with the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, for outstanding and lasting significance in the field.

Economist Nora Gordon Receives National Academy of Education Fellowship

Nora Gordon, assistant professor of economics, has won a highly selective National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral fellowship, the nation.s oldest source of support for education research for scholars who are recent recipients of the doctorate. Professor Gordon will work on issues surrounding "competitiveness among vendors to public schools."

Another Top Book Award for Communication Professor Dan Hallin

Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, by UCSD professor of communication Daniel C. Hallin and Italian scholar Paolo Mancini, has been named the .Outstanding Book of the Year. by the International Communication Association. The work provides a systematic comparative framework for understanding the role of the press in different forms of political systems. This selection is the third prestigious honor for the book, with similar laurels having been bestowed by Harvard.s Kennedy School of Government Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy and also by the National Communication Association.

Thomas Csordas Receives Collegium Budapest Visiting Scholar Award

Professor Thomas J. Csordas of the Department of Anthropology received a Visiting Scholar fellowship at the Collegium Budapest Institute of Advanced Study. In addition to his residency at the Collegium, thus far the award has allowed him to initiate ethnographic research on religion and globalization in post-socialist Hungary, as well as to lecture as a core faculty member of the Budapest-Balaton Summer School of Medical Anthropology on "Sacral Communication and Healing" sponsored by the Semmelweis university and the Karoli Gaspar University.

UCSD Anthropologist Receives NIMH Grant to Study Native American Mental Health

Professor Thomas J. Csordas of the Department of Anthropology has received a four year National Institute of mental Health research grant to support his study "Navajo Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment" (NYEPT). The grant will fund Csordas and his research team to conduct a clinical ethnography and therapeutic process study in an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit within an Indian Health Service hospital on the Navajo Nation, the first unit of its kind to operate on an Indian reservation and to integrate traditional native American healing practices with conventional psychiatry. The study will examine the development of a clinical culture within the new unit, and will compare adolescent patients treated in the on-reservation facility with untreated adolescents and with adolescents treated in off-reservation facilities, tracing the trajectory of patients into treatment and on toward reintegration with their families and communities.

"Occupational Ghettos" by Maria Charles

The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with similarly impressive forms of resistance to equalization, most notably the continuing tendency for women to crowd into female "occupational ghettos."

This book answers the important questions: Why has such extreme segregation persisted even as other types of gender inequality have lessened? Why is segregation especially extreme in precisely those countries that appear most committed to egalitarian reform and family-friendly policies?

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UCSD ARCHAEOLOGIST IS PART OF "GLOBAL MOMENTS" PROJECT

Anthropological archaeologist Thomas Levy, professor in the UCSD Department of Anthropology, will join an international team of researchers in a study of "Global Moments in the Levant," under a $2.6 million grant from the Norwegian Research Council. Global moments are defined as "developments that typically call for significant adaptation leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict." The major objective of the collaboration of the 16 scientists is to advance understanding of how these significant events altered lives of groups and communities in the past. Professor Levy will focus on his research project in Southern Jordan, at a series of large ancient copper processing sites, where he has been studying the role of metallurgy and technology in the development of complex societies.

Professor of Ethnic Studies Receives The Thomas and Znaniecki Award

Congratulations to Yen Espiritu whose book, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, has won the Thomas and Znaniecki book award sponsored by the American Sociological Association as the best book in the field of International Migration for the 2005 competition

Daniel Hallin Receives Best Book Award from the National Communication Association

Comparing Media Systems by Daniel Hallin, professor of communication, has won 2005 Best Book Award from the National Communication Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization serving the academic discipline of Communication.

Professor Ramachandran Receives a Lifetime Fellowship in the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Professor Vilayanur Ramachandran, of the department of Psychology, has received a lifetime fellowship in The Royal Institution of Great Britain, and has been awarded the Henry Dale Prize. The Henry Dale Prize is an award given to an individual scientist of any discipline who has performed outstanding work on a biological topic by means of an original multidisciplinary approach. Congratulations to Professor Ramachandran.

Assistant Professor Lisa Park Receives the 2005 Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association.

Congratulations to Lisa Park who has been selected to receive the 2005 Early Career Award given annually to a promising young scholar by the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association.

Sociologist Andrew Scull to be Interviewed, Sign Copies of New Book, on July 28th

Madhouse, the new work by Andrew Scull, UCSD professor of sociology, tells the story of Dr. Henry Cotton, an early 20th Century physician who took charge of the state insane asylum in New Jersey bringing with him the wrong-headed idea that the cause of mental illness was hidden infection in the body. Subsequently Dr. Cotton conducted multiple operations resulting in thousands of brutalized and still very ill patients. Professor Scull, who presents this sordid history in its horrifying detail, will be interviewed on KPBS-FM, “These Days With Tom Fudge” during the 10 a.m. hour on July 28. The author will also be signing books on that date in a reception beginning at 7 p.m. at Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla

Mary Blair-Loy and Maria Charles of the Department of Sociology Receive Awards by the American Sociological Association

Mary Blair-Loy, an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, won the ASA Goode Prize for the best book on family sociology for her book "Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women". The book shows how cultural schemas of work devotion and family devotion help structure institutions of the capitalist firm and the nuclear family in the U.S. and help shape women's actions around career and family. Prof. Blair-Loy studies gender, work and family, with a focus on how people's thoughts, emotions, and actions are constrained and enabled by social and cultural structures

Associate Professor Maria Charles, of the Department of Sociology will receive the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Organizations, Occupations, and Work at ASA for her book "Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men," coauthored with David Grusky. Prof. Charles areas of specialization include social inequality and sociology of gender. Much of her research explores international differences in patterns and processes of gender- and class-based inequality.

Highly Respected UCSD Political Scientist elected to National Academy of Sciences

Gary Cox, professor of political science and department chair, was named May 3 to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the top honors bestowed on scholars in the United States.

Cox, 49, is a specialist in the areas of legislative and electoral politics. His books, in these fields and in comparative politics, have won many prizes and awards. His most recent work, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander, analyzes the political consequences of the reapportionment revolution in the United States. Cox is a former Guggenheim Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

UCSD Scholar's Comparative Media Book Honored by Harvard

Daniel C. Hallin, Professor of Communication, has been honored by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy with its Goldsmith Book Prize for his work Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, written with Italian scholar Paolo Mancini.

The award, announced March 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was for the best academic book that seeks "to improve the quality of government or politics through an examination of press and politics in the formation of public policy." The Goldsmith Book Prize is bestowed annually by the Shorenstein Center, a unit of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Professor Yen Le Espiritu Received the
Association for Asian American Studies' Best Book Award in the Social Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Yen Le Espiritu, of the Department of Ethnic Studies, received the Association for Asian American Studies' Best Book Award in the Social Sciences for Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

UCSD's Urban Expo XV Features Award Winning Students in Urban Studies and Planning

Senior students in the Urban Studies and Planning Program presented their annual projects, in the form of academic posters and research papers, at the 15th Annual EXPO held Thursday at the Price Center. A highlight of the daylong program was presentation of top awards to Julie Freccero, for academic achievement, and to Sian Hillier, for Meritorious Community Service.

The program featured presentations from Steven Erie, Urban Studies program director and political science professor, and an informal talk from local area San Diego City Councilman Scott Peters. Keith Pezzoli, UrbanStudies field studies supervisor and professor, presented the student awards.

Ramon Gutierrez to Receive the 2005 President's Award

Ramon Gutierrez from the Department of Ethnic Studies has been awarded the 2005 President's Award by the American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association for his major contributions to the study of American Culture.

The award will be bestowed in late March.

Social Sciences Faculty Members to Receive Chancellor's Associates Excellence Awards

Social Sciences faculty members have been named as recipients of four of the five Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards, winning in all the categories for which Divisional members were eligible.

Being honored are:

Karen Dobkins, Department of Psychology, for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching;

David Lake, Department of Political Science, Excellence in Graduate Teaching;

Steve Erie, Department of Political Science, Excellence in Community Service and

Peter Gourevitch, Department of Political Science (and IRPS faculty), Excellence in Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

A fifth Chancellors Associates Award, this one for research in Science and Engineering, will be presented to Miroslav Krstic, from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

The awards ceremony will take place on March 31.

Dr. Jana Fortier, a visiting scholar in the UCSD Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholar award for research in the India and Nepal border region. Fortier is comparing settlement and language changes within a nomadic population known as Raute, and in India as Raji or Ban Rawatliving, in the Himalayan forests of India and Nepal.

Raute and Raji speak a Tibetic language now spoken by about 3,000 people. However, with greater contact with surrounding Hindi speakers, Rajis are experiencing language death, in which their native language is being replaced with the local Hindi dialect. Fortier is working to record their previously undocumented language and help speakers preserve their language. Her overall goal is to understand how state interventions shape the different cultural trajectories of Rautes and Rajis.

Professor Ramachandran of psychology and neurosciences at UCSD and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, is featured as this weeks top story at This Week @ UCSD. Professor Ramachandran talks about his studies in behavioral neurology, and his research in investigate specific dysfunctions of the brain.

Read the article, At Play in the Fields of Rama

Christof Teuscher, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, who works at the borders of technical and life sciences, has received the Cor Baayen Award, given annually to "a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics." The prize was created in 1995 to honor the first president of the European Research Consortium for Informatics (ERCIM) and was presented to Dr. Teuscher for his Ph.D thesis on unconventional biologically-inspired machines used for computation.

Political Science Professor Gary Jacobson named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2004-2005.

Political Science Professor Gary Jacobson, an authority on American politics--elections, parties, interest groups and Congress--has been named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2004-2005. He will spend two days each at nine universities participating in classroom lectures and delivering a major address open to the entire academic community. Jacobson has been a faculty member since 1979 at UCSD where he is a highly respected teacher and scholar, author of a number of distingished books and frequently quoted in the national news media on topics within his area of expertise.

URBAN STUDIES PROGRAM CONTRIBUTES TO UNITED NATIONS EVENT IN BARCELONA

The UCSD Urban Studies and Planning program, through its Regional Workbench Consortium, participated in the UN-HABITAT's World Urban Forum, September 13-17, 2004 in Barcelona , Spain .

The international forum was attended by 3,000 delegates representing governments, local authorities, non-governmental organizations and other experts on urban issues from around the world. It is a biannual event focused on global urbanization--especially the problems facing fast-growing cities of the developing world.

UCSD Urban Studies Lecturer Keith Pezzoli showcased the Regional Workbench Consortium's efforts (funded by UCSD's Superfund Basic Research Program and other grants) to build advanced visualization and web-based Geographic Information Systems in support of sustainable city-region development.

The Latin American Studies Association(LASA) has named the book, Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare (University of California Press, 2003), winner of the 2004 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award, the Association's major book prize.

The book's authors are Charles Briggs, Director for the UCSD center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a visiting scholar at CILAS.

UCSD-Based Planning Consortium Wins First Place in Regional Competition

The University of California, San Diego-based “Regional Workbench Consortium,” which uses computer knowledge-based and spatial information systems to help improve sustainable city and regional development, received the First Place Award for Academic Leadership and Service from the San Diego Chapter of the American Planning Association in ceremonies June 3.

The UCSD Co-Principal Investigator, Urban Studies and Planning professor, Keith Pezzoli,said, “This is a prestigious honor for us. Our efforts to bridge science and technology with policy and planning is paying off for community benefit.”

The “Regional Workbench Consortium,” operates out of the UCSD Urban Studies and Planning Program and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and is largely funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences through UCSD's Superfund Basic Research Program. The project will now be entered in competition for a statewide award from the California chapter of the American Planning Association.

http://www.regionalworkbench.org/

Gary Cox, professor of political science, and a researcher on formal theories of politics, was was awarded the William H. Riker Prize by the University of Rochester. The prize is granted to a scholar who combines excellent empirical analysis with well-developed theory.

Contentious Curricula by Assistant Professor of Sociology, Amy Binder, has been awarded the 2004 Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association.

Dr. David N. Pellow's "Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago" was named winner of the C. Wright Mills Award in 2003. More at Society for the Study of Social Problems website. (more info)

Dr. Clive W. J. Granger and Dr. Robert F. Engle of Economics Department awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. (more info)

Dr. Guillermo Algaze from Anthropology is one of the 24 winners of the prestigious MacAuthur "Genius Awards". Read more from The MacArthur Foundation's website. (more info)

The Minority Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2002), by professor of sociology John D. Skrentny, was awarded the 2002 Best Book Prize from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Professor Skrentny's book was also a finalist for the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, from the Organization of American Historians, 2003. (more info)

A book by Amy Binder, assistant professor of sociology, Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press, 2002) has won two awards: 2003 Best Book Prize from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association and 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association. (more info)

Professor of psychology Diana Deutsch has been named, by the American Psychological Association, as recipient of the 2004 Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts. Much of professor Deutsch's work has to do with the psychology of musical perception.