ITP NEWS
2010
Rachel Fish (sociology) received a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council for the summer of 2010.
Sarah Bruch (sociology) was selected as the 2010 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship recipient. The Hess Scholarship is awarded by the American Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. It carries a stipend of $3,500 to be used to support the pursuit of graduate studies.
Steven Alvarado (sociology) was awarded a Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 2010 Summer Fellowship to pursue independent research in Washington, D.C.
ITP fellow (political science) Deven Carlson's book Understanding Education Indicators: A Practical Primer for Research and Policy (with co-author M. Planty) was published by Teachers College Press in August 2010.
ITP fellow in sociology David Rangel has been awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship. The fellowship provides three years of support for doctoral study.
ITP international affiliate Fabian Pfeffer has accepted a faculty position at the University of Michigan. He will be a Faculty Research Fellow at the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research beginning in July 2010. Fabian will receive his Ph.D. in sociology in June 2010, with a thesis titled "Wealth and Opportunity in the United States and Germany."
Anna Haskins (ITP fellow in sociology) won the 2010 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Educational Research Association's Section on Sociology of Education. This award is presented to "a graduate student or junior faculty person ...whose research shows exceptional promise and will likely influence the field over the course of his/her career."
Hilary Shager, ITP fellow in social work, has been awarded an AERA Dissertation Grant to complete her thesis "The Role of Peer Effects in Early Education: Evidence from the 2003 Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)."
Jason Engle, ITP fellow in political science, accepted an invitation to join the graduate student committee of Division D: Measurements and Research Methodology, of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He will serve on the committee for two years, 2010-2012.
Likewise, Lauren Schudde, ITP fellow in sociology, has accepted an invitation to serve for two years as the graduate student representative of AERA's Divsion J: Postsecondary Education.
ITP fellow Brian An (sociology) has accepted a faculty position at the University of Iowa in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Brian received his Ph.D. in 2009, with a thesis titled "The Effect of Dual Enrollment on College Persistence and Attainment." He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Notre Dame.
2009
ITP fellow Josh Cowen, an assistant professor since fall 2008 at University of Kentucky's Martin School of Public Policy, has received funding from the Spencer Foundation for a two-year project titled "Teaching Careers in Rural Schools." Josh is co-PI, along with colleagues Dr. Eugenia Tom (PI) and Dr. J.S. Butler (co-PI).
ITP international affiliate Fabian Pfeffer has won a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation. Only 20 fellows were selected from a pool of approximately 600 applicants. Fabian is the third international affiliate to win a Spencer fellowship, following Martín Santos, who graduated in 2009, and Carolina Milesi, who graduated in 2007.
ITP alum Chris Hulleman (PhD 2007) has received APA's Division 15 (Educational Psychology) Paul R. Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award. The title of his dissertation is "The Role of Utility Value in the Development of Interest and Achievement." Chris was a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt from 2007-9, and will start as an assistant professor at James Madison University in fall 2009.
Graduating fellow David Fleming (political science) has accepted a position as assistant professor at Furman University in Greenville, SC, starting in fall 2009.
Graduating fellow Richard Prather (psychology) will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University in fall 2009. He'll be working with Dr. Linda Smith on an IES funded grant investigating early development of arithmetic concepts.
Graduating fellow Brian An (sociology) has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Notre Dame in fall 2009.
Graduating fellow Nick Mader (economics) will begin next fall as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago, joining Professor James J. Heckman (of the economics department) in his research on the GED and role of non-cognitive skills in producing labor market outcomes and social behaviors.
2008
ITP fellow Anna Haskins has won an NSF fellowship to support her graduate study. She is the third ITP student to win this prestigious honor, following Steven Alvarado and Alyn Turner.
ITP international affiliate Martín Santos has won a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation. Only 30 fellows were selected from a pool of nearly 600 applicants. Martín is the second international affiliate to win a Spencer fellowship, following Carolina Milesi who graduated in 2007.
Graduating fellow Joshua Cowen has been appointed assistant professor at the Martin School of Public Policy, University of Kentucky.
Graduating fellow Sheree Schrager has taken a position as statistician at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. She will also continue her affiliation with our experimental study of elementary science in Los Angeles.
