Council Members, 2008-2010
A list of previous Councils is also available on our Web site.
Name |
Term |
Institution |
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3/2006-2/2010 |
University of Texas at Austin |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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10/2006-2/2010 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
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3/2006-2/2010 |
Colgate University |
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3/2006-2/2010 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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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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3/2006-2/2010 |
University of Minnesota |
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10/2006-2/2010 |
Stanford University |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
California State University at Chico |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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3/2008-2/2012 |
Pennsylvania State University |
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.
Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography and the Director of the
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He is also currently serving as an advisor on two
National Science Foundation social science committees and as Chair of the
Executive Committee for the National Center for Geographic Information and
Analysis. His current research interests center on geographic information
science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data. He received a
B.A. degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and a Ph.D. in
Geography from McMaster University in 1969. After 19 years at the University
of Western Ontario, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. He was elected member
of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada in 2002, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 2006. He was Editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990
and Editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences
section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from
2000 to 2006. He serves on the editorial boards of ten other journals and
book series. He is author of some 400 scientific papers and has written or
edited some 20 books.
Michael R. Haines is Banfi Vintners Professor of Economics at Colgate University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an economic historian and historical demographer who works on historical fertility, mortality, and health in the United States and Europe, historical consumer behavior in the United States and Europe, and historical census and vital statistics materials. He has served as the treasurer, vice president, and president of the Social Science History Association; has served on several boards of editors; and has been a reviewer and consultant for NSF, NICHD, and the World Bank, and has been the recipient of several grants from NIH. He is the author of Economic-Demographic Interrelations in Developing Agricultural Regions: A Case Study of Prussian Upper Silesia, 1840-1914; Fertility and Occupation: Population Patterns in Industrialization; and Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America (with Samuel H. Preston) and is coeditor (with Richard H. Steckel) and contributor to A Population History of North America. He has contributed over 75 articles, chapters, and comments to books, refereed academic journals, and reference works. He holds a B.A. in economics from Amherst College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the Millennial Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States. He contributed the chapters on population and vital statistics to that edition.
Kathleen Mullan Harris is Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Her research interests are in the areas of family, poverty, and social policy. Dr. Harris is Director of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a longitudinal study of more than 20,000 adolescents in 1995 who have been followed through adolescence and the transition to adulthood. The study was designed to understand the causes of health status and health behavior with an emphasis on the role of social context. Using Add Health data, Harris has examined how family and community context interact to influence family processes and outcomes for children. Through her participation in the NICHD Family and Child Well-Being Research Network, Harris is studying the health status and health behavior of children in immigrant families and the role of social contexts in the acculturation of immigrant youth. Other current work is examining the determinants of nonmarital childbearing, including the impact of recent welfare reform policies. Harris was awarded the 2004 Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement from the Population Association of America. Among many professional commitments, she serves as elected vice president of the Population Association of America. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
Samuel L. Myers Jr., is Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice of the Hubert Humphrey
School at the University of Minnesota and directs the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice. He specializes in the impacts of
social policies on the poor. Myers pioneered the use of applied econometric
techniques to examine racial disparities in crime, to detect illegal
discrimination in credit markets, to assess the impact of welfare on
family stability, and to evaluate the effectiveness of government transfers
in reducing poverty.
Myers has served as president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management and was appointed to the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration. He has also served on the Association's policy council and on the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economic Profession.
Myers has consulted with the National Commission for Employment Policy, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, U.S. General Accounting Office, and U.S. Congressional Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. He was on the academic advisory board of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, National Council for Black Studies board of directors, and editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Science Quarterly, and the Review of Black Political Economy. In 1990, the Review of Black Political Economy recognized Myers as one of the top 20 U.S. Black economists. He earned a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
C. Matthew Snipp is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 1996, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Research Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Professor Snipp has published three books and over 60 articles and book chapters on demography, economic development, poverty, and unemployment. His current research and writing deals with the methodology of racial measurement, changes in the social and economic well-being of American ethnic minorities, and American Indian education. He served for 10 years as an appointed member of the Census Bureau's Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee, several advisory working groups evaluating the 2000 census, two National Academy of Science panels charged with designing the 2010 census and currently is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics.
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 at the University of South Carolina; beginning in January 2008, he will be Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University (1997) and a B.A. 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; has 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 currently the principal investigator for two NSF-supported projects; the first examines the roles played by judges' positions in the legal/judicial hierarchy on their decision making, while the second develops a class of mixture-based item response models for proximity and dominance items. He is the author of two forthcoming books and more than two dozen articles and the recipient of four grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as numerous other fellowships and awards. In addition, he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Political Analysis, and on the executive boards of the Midwest Political Science Association, the American Judicature Society, and the Empirical Legal Studies weblog, as well as on numerous editorial boards.
Invited Council Participants
At each Council meeting, ICPSR hosts a visitor from one of ICPSR's national memberships, as well as an appointed representative from the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). These participants take part in committee meetings and plenary sessions of Council.
Recent Visitors
 Helena Laaksonen, Director, Finnish Social Science Data Archive |
 Peter Doorn, Director, Data Archiving and Networked Services, Netherlands |
 Hans Jørgen Marker, Director, Danish Data Archive |
 ZeQi Qiu, Professor of Sociology, Peking University |
 Kevin Schürer, Director, U.K. Data Archive |
 Roxane Silberman, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) |
 Iris Alfredsson, Acting Director, Swedish Social Science Data Service, Goteborg, Sweden |
 Dominique Joye, Director, Swiss Information and Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences (SIDOS) |
 Andrew Kaniki, Executive Director of Knowledge Management and Strategy, South Africa National Research Foundation |
 James McBride, Director, Irish Social Science Archive |
