Council Members, 2010-2012
The newly elected Council will meet for the first time in March 2010. A list of previous Councils is also available on our Web site.
Name |
Term |
Institution |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
Johns Hopkins University |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
University of Michigan |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
University of Minnesota |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Johns Hopkins University |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Queen's University |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
Morehouse College |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
Texas A&M University |
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3/2010-2/2014 |
Michigan State University |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
California State University at Chico |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Pennsylvania State University |
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3/2010-2/2011 |
University of Texas at Austin |
Biographies
Francine Berman is Vice President for
Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was formerly Professor and High Performance Computing
Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
the University of California at San Diego where she also served as
Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Berman is a
pioneer in Grid Computing and an international leader in the development
of cyberinfrastructure. She has worked extensively in the areas of
adaptive middleware, parallel programming environments, scheduling, and
high performance computing. Berman is one of the two founding Principal
Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, and
also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI), a consortium of 41 research groups,
institutions, and university partners with the goal of building national
infrastructure to support research and education in science and
engineering. In addition to these leadership roles, she has served on a
variety of national and international committees, including the
Engineering Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, the
National Institutes of General Medical Sciences Advisory Committee of
the National Institutes of Health, and the Anita Borg Institute for
Women and Technology Board of Trustees. Berman is considered both a
visionary and a pragmatist, and was recognized for her accomplishments
in 2004 as one of the top women in technology by BusinessWeek, and as
one of the top technologists by IEEE Spectrum. She is currently the
co-chair for the international Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable
Digital Preservation and Access, whose goal is to develop economically
sustainable strategies to preserve our often fragile digital
information.
G. Sayeed Choudhury is Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. In addition, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, a Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources. Choudhury serves as Principal Investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, Coalition for Networked Information, Digital Library Federation, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and international venues including the International Federation of Library Associations, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable, and eResearch Australasia.
Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over 70 papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, his academic work has considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries. He holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968), an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (1974).
Catherine A. Fitch is Associate Director of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) and founding Co-Director of the Minnesota Research Data Center (MnRDC). At MPC, Fitch has been intimately involved in the creation of several of the largest social science databases, including IPUMS (USA and International) and National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS). She has used her experience with social science data infrastructure to fund and build the MnRDC, a Census Bureau Research Data Center (RDC) providing access to restricted and confidential data. Her own research focuses on historical demography and marriage formation in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Research projects include an examination of the role of economic opportunity in changing marriage age since 1960 and an evaluation of measures of cohabitation in census and survey data. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and carried out within Census Bureau RDCs. She has published in Social Science Quarterly and Historical Methods and contributed to edited volumes on population studies and marriage. She received a PhD in history (2005) and a Master of Public Policy (2001) from the University of Minnesota, after graduating from St. Olaf College with a BA in history and mathematics in 1995. She has been active in the Social Science History Association for many years, including serving as Program Coordinator for the 1999 meetings.
Thomas LaVeist is Director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions and the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing has focused on three broad thematic research questions: 1) What are the social and behavioral factors that predict the timing of various related health outcomes (e.g. access and utilization of health services, mortality, entrance into nursing home? 2) What are the social and behavioral factors that explain race differences in health outcomes?; and 3) What has been the impact of social policy on the health and quality of life of African Americans? His work has included both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Dr. LaVeist seeks to develop an orienting framework in the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include: U.S. health and social policy, the role of race in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services.
Jeffrey Moon is Head of the Maps, Data, and Government Information Centre (MADGIC) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, a position he has held since 1996. From 1987 to 1996, Jeffrey was a Data and Government Documents Librarian at Queen's. Jeffrey has been the Queen's ICPSR Official Representative since the early 1990's. He has been a member of IASSIST since 1988. He was a founding member (1988) of the Canadian Association of Public Data Users (CAPDU), and a member of the Ontario Council of University Libraries' (OCUL) Data In Ontario (DINO) group since its inception in 2004. Jeffrey Chaired a DINO subcommittee that successfully lobbied OCUL to establish "Common Metadata Standards and a Centralized Web-based Data Extraction and Analysis System for Ontario". Jeffrey is a regular speaker on data-related issues at the Ontario Library Association's (OLA) Annual Conference. Jeffrey teaches online Canadian and US Government Documents courses via the OLA's "Education Institute" (since 2003), as well as teaching a graduate-level course in Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. In 2006, Jeffrey was recognized as "Academic Librarian of the Year" by the Ontario College and University Library Association. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Waterloo and an M.L.I.S. from McGill University.
Gregory N. Price, Gregory N. Price is Charles E. Merrill Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, Morehouse College. His previous appointments include Director of the Mississippi Urban Research Center, Professor of Economics at Jackson State University, and Economics Program Director at the National Science Foundation. An applied econometrician and theorist, Price conducts research on the effects of religiosity on economic behavior, the empirics of social capital and racial stigma, income distribution and redistribution, obesity, crime, and the intergenerational effects of slavery. His research has been published in a wide variety of journals such as Review of Black Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Review of Development Economics. Price is currently President of the National Economic Association, where his agenda includes researching the historic exclusion of black economists from the faculties of colleges/universities -- also part of his current labor market research. To date, this research has produced results showing that increases in the supply of black Ph.D. economists has no effect on the hiring of black economists in academia -- a finding that can inform programmatic efforts to racially diversify economics faculties. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Price earned his BA in economics from Morehouse College, and completed his economics doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Rogelio Saenz is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He is also a Policy Fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and writes occasionally on demographic trends for the Population Reference Bureau. Saenz received his PhD in sociology from Iowa State University in 1986. His research focuses on the areas of demography, immigration, sociology of Latina/os, and inequality. Saenz is a co-editor of Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of America (Springer, 2008) and wrote the census report titled Latinos and the Changing Face of America (Population Reference Bureau and Russell Sage Foundation, 2004). His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Demography, Du Bois Review, International Migration Review, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Race & Society, Social Science Quarterly, and Social Science Research. Saenz also serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and Southern Rural Sociology. He has served on the National Institutes of Health's Social Studies and Population Study Section from 1993 to 1997 and has been president of the Southwestern Sociological Association and vice president of the Rural Sociological Society. Saenz received the American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section's Distinguished Contributions to Research and Scholarship Award (2005) and the American Association of Higher Education Hispanic Caucus' Outstanding Latino/a Faculty Award in Research and Teaching in Higher Education.
Barbara Schneider is John A. Hannah Chair and University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and the University of Chicago, University Faculty Research Associate at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator for the Center for Advancing Communication at NORC and the University of Chicago. Her research interests focus on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well-being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. She has examined how schools can become more effective in reducing persisting academic achievement gaps among children of different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Concerned with issues of social justice and inequality, she uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital. Schneider received her PhD from Northwestern University. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the New Century Scholars Program from 2007-2008 and an elected member of the Sociological Research Association in 2005. She has served as editor of the Sociology of Education and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and on the editorial boards of several other journals. She has authored and coauthored several books, monographs, and book chapters and has published in numerous sociology and education journals.
Lori M. Weber is Professor of Political Science at California State University at Chico. Professor Weber received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has taught political methodology and public opinion courses at California State University, Chico since 1999. She received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Enhancement award for her dissertation on deliberative democracy. She also has published articles in scholarly journals on political participation, deliberative democracy, and electronic democracy. In 2004, Professor Weber was involved in an NSF-funded research project based at Carnegie Mellon University that investigated face-to-face and online citizen deliberation in an experimental context. In 2006, Professor Weber took part in ICPSR's Official Representative Sabbatical Program and developed an instructional module based on Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone. The module has a substantive emphasis on social capital and civic engagement,introduces students to social science concepts, and develops skills in quantitative reasoning and data analysis.
Ann Wolpert is Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she oversees MIT's distributed library system, the Institute's Academic Media Production Services, and The MIT Press. She additionally chairs the board of Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation. Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience previous to Harvard included management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., an international management and consulting firm, where she also worked on various consulting assignments. She recently served as president of the Association of Research Libraries, where she has also been active on its Intellectual Property and Copyright committees. Her professional activities have also included service and leadership roles on the boards of NELINET, Inc. and OCLC, Inc., and on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information. She currently serves on the boards of the Digital Library Federation and the Boston Library Consortium, chairs the board of the DSpace Foundation, and is an advisor member of the Publications Committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society. She is a member of the National Institute for Health's Public Access Working Group and a publications advisor to the National Science Foundation. A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on topics such as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in a digital environment, and open access and the future of digital research libraries.
Christopher Zorn is Professor of Political Science and Crime,
Law, and Justice (by courtesy) and affiliate professor of Law at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a
Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University (1997) and a BA in political science and philosophy
from Truman State University (1991). He is formerly a Visiting Scientist and Program Director for the Law
and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation (2003-2005), and Winship Distinguished Research
Professor of Political Science at Emory University, where he taught from 1996 to 2003. In addition, he
regularly teaches courses at the University of Michigan and Oxford University; he has been an instructor
in the ICPSR Summer Program since 2000. His research focuses on judicial politics, and on statistics for
the social sciences. He is the author of two forthcoming books and three dozen articles, and the recipient
of four grants from the National Science Foundation as well as numerous other fellowships and awards. In
addition, he is the immediate past editor of the journal Political Analysis, and serves on the
executive boards of the American Judicature Society and the Empirical Legal Studies weblog, as well as on
numerous editorial boards.
Aletha C. Huston is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development and the former Associate Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact of child care and income support policies on children's development. She is a Principal Investigator in the New Hope Project, a study of the effects on children and families of parents' participation in a work-based program to reduce poverty, and collaborator in the Next Generation Project, investigating the effects of employment and welfare policies on children. She is an investigator for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a longitudinal study following a national sample of children from birth through middle childhood. Her books include Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy, Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society, Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Bridges to Adolescence and Adulthood and Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and their Children. She is past president of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the Society for Research in Child Development. She has received the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology, the Nicholas Hobbs award for Research and Child Advocacy, and the SRCD award for contributions to Child Development and Public Policy.
