The American Academy of Political and Social Science

Linda H. Aiken is the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, at the University of Pennsylvania.

George A. Akerlof is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and the Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. 

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. 

Bobby Austin is the General Hal Moore Chair in Contemplative Leadership at the Thomas Merton Institute and is the Chairman of the Planning Committee on the Status of African American Men, convened by Congressman Danny Davis (D), Ill., as well as the founder of the People's Assembly and editor of its publication, Serius B. 

Mahzarin Banaji is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. 

Mary Jo Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Academic Dean, and Chair of the Management and Leadership area at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 

Larry M. Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Peter L. Berger is the Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs and Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology at Boston University. 

Barbara R. Bergmann is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and at American University. 

Rebecca M. Blank is the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the United States Department of Commerce, where she oversees the two premier statistical agencies in the United States, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Francine D. Blau is Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics at Cornell University. 

Alan Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and co-director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.

Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University, Sissela Bok is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Andrew F. Brimmer is Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the College for Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. 

Kitty Calavita is Chancellor’s Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. 

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught since 1982. 

Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, is one of the world’s leading communications theorists.

Andrew Cherlin is the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

Thomas Cook is Professor of Sociology, Psychology, Education and Social Policy, Joan and Serepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.

Geoffrey Cowan is University Professor and holder of the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Sir David Cox is an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford and is currently affiliated with the Department of Statistics at Oxford. 

Sheldon H. Danziger is the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Research Professor at the Population Studies Center, and Director of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

Paul DiMaggio is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University.  

Carol S. Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, is a leading researcher in the dynamics of motivation.

Felton Earls is Professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 

Paula England is a professor of Sociology and a faculty research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, as well as a faculty fellow at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University.

Lee Epstein is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Law at Northwestern University. 

Ernst Fehr is Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich and one of the world's leading experimental economists. 

Roberto M. Fernandez is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Stephen E. Fienberg is Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Cylab, and i-Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. 

Morris Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

Susan Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. 

Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Richard Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is currently serving as Faculty Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.  He also directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and is a Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance.

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Howard Gardner is The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

Elizabeth Garrett is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy, and Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California.  

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University as well as the Director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. 

Mark Granovetter is the Joan Butler Ford Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University.

Donald P. Green is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and Psychology and Director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

Ted Robert Gurr is a Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, formerly a Distinguished University Professor, at the University of Maryland where he founded and directed the Minorities at Risk Project, based at the Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management, a project that he continues to advise.

Amy Gutmann is the President of the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, with secondary appointments in Philosophy, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Graduate School of Education.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert M. Hauser is Executive Director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council and Vilas Research Professor and Samuel Stouffer Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Deborah R. Hensler is the Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution at Stanford Law School and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at Stanford Law. 

Ronald Inglehart is Professor of political science and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. 

James S. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Director and Research Professor of the Institute for Social Research

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University.  

Lawrence F. Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  

Robert O. Keohane is a Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and is a member of the steering committee of the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. 

Alan B. Krueger was, until 2010, the Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University.

Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006) was the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.

Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She holds positions in the Departments of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society. 

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1963 to 1998 and where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote "public religion" endeavors. 

Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Sara McLanahan is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is a faculty associate of the Office of Population Research and is the founder and director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Martin Meyerson, 1922-2007, was President and University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Terrie E. Moffitt is Professor of Social Behavior and Development at the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London and Knut Schmidt Nielson Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Science & Policy

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) served as United States Senator from New York, starting in 1976, and was Ambassador to the United Nations (1975-1976) and to India (1973-1975).

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the University Distinguished Service Professor and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard University. 

Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012) was the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science

Orlando Patterson is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

Robert Plomin is MRC Research Professor of Behavioral Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, where he is also deputy director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute. 

Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University.  

Samuel H. Preston, the Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been recognized as one of the world's leading demographers. 

Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Vice-President for Global Centers.

Robert D. Putnam is Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and is also Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK). 

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education and historian of education at New York University. 

Alice M. Rivlin is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, Director of the Greater Washington Research project, and a Visiting Professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University. 

Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Isabel V. Sawhill is a Senior Fellow and co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution; she currently holds the Cabot Family Chair and is also the Director of Budgeting for National Priorities.

Richard D. Schwartz is Ernest I. White Professor Emeritus at the College of Law of Syracuse University and is Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

Martin E. P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Positive Psychology Network. 

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University.

Donna Shalala is President of the University of Miami and was the longest serving Secretary of Health and Human Services in U.S. history.

Donna Shalala is being inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame on September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit their Web site.

Lawrence W. Sherman is Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Darwin College. 

Susan S. Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Beth Simmons is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Neil J. Smelser is a University Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.

Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shelley E. Taylor is a Distinguished Professor and co-director of the Health Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an Associate Member of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. 

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During 22 Professor in Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Eric Wanner has been President of the Russell Sage Foundation since 1986 and has taken a major hand in developing the Foundation’s long-standing research programs on behavioral economics, poverty and inequality in the United States, the economic and social impacts of U.S. immigration, and most recently, the causes and consequences of the accelerating changes in the nature of work in modern economies.

Roger Wilkins was the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University.

Oliver Williamson is Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.