IPR - Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University

faculty recognition
Faculty Fellows, cont.
Alberto Palloni
Consultant and Conference Organizer, Seminar on Family Support Networks and Population Aging, Doha, Qatar, United
Nations Population Fund
Monica Prasad
Council Member, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2008–11
Monica Prasad is working on a book
manuscript on the origins of progressive
taxation and adversarial regulation in
the United States.
Lincoln Quillian
Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, American Sociological
Association
Michelle Reininger
Faculty Honor Roll, 2007–08; Advisory Group Member, Assessment of the
Quality of Student Teaching Programs Across the United States, National
Council on Teacher Quality
Dorothy Roberts
“Reproductive Justice and the New Biopolitics of Race,” Annual Roe v. Wade
Anniversary Lecture, UCLA Center for Women’s Studies, January 22; “Prison
Research and the Biopolitics of Race,” closing plenary address, Conference
on Research on Vulnerable Populations, University of Colorado at Boulder,
February 15; “The Criminalization of Poverty and the Biopolitics of Race,” Raven Lecture, University of California,
Berkeley, March 6; “Race and the New Biocitizen,” African American Studies Distinguished Lecture, University of Illinois
at Chicago, March 21; “Race and the New Biocitizen,” keynote, “What’s the Use of Race?” Conference, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, April 24
James Rosenbaum
Senior Urban Education Research Fellowship, Council of Great City Schools; “Housing Choice and Access to Opportunity,”
testimony before the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, chaired by Jack Kemp and Henry
Cisneros, former U.S. Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development, Chicago, July 15
Wesley G. Skogan
“Policing for the 21st Century: Dilemmas of Immigration and Terrorism,” plenary address, XV World Congress of the
International Society for Criminology, Barcelona, August 22
Kathleen Thelen
President, Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics; Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin;
Member, Board of Trustees, Social Science Research Center–Berlin; “Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies,”
inaugural keynote, British Journal of Industrial Relations lecture series, London School of Economics, November 20
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Member, National Advisory Board, Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College
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