AAPSS President Douglas Massey Introduces 2006 Fellows

On April 23, 2006, Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the new president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, recognized the outstanding contributions of six distinguished social science scholars who were installed as Fellows of the Academy: Barbara Bergmann (Professor Emerita, American University and University of Maryland), Andrew F. Brimmer (Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Felton Earls (Professor of Human Behavior and Development, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University), Ronald Inglehart (Professor Of Political Science, University of Michigan), Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Professor Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) and Steven Pinker (Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University).

The Installation was held in The Rotunda of the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC. The ceremony also recognized the promise of the future generation of social scientists with the presentation of Undergraduate Research Awards to ten students who are among the Academy's Junior Fellows.

After receiving their medals, Fellows were asked to reflect on the question of how they felt their own research may have enlightened public discourse and informed public policy. Excerpts from their remarks appear on the pages that follow.

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