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    Upjohn Institute 2016 Early Career Research Award

    Upjohn Institute 2016 Early Career Research Award

    March 14, 2016

    Awardee | John Horton (Ph.D. in Public Policy '11), Assistant Professor in the Stern School of Business, New York University, is the recipient of an Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Horton will investigate the effect of demand shocks on human capital acquisition strategies.

    Using Behavioural Science to Improve the Government Workforce

    Using Behavioural Science to Improve the Government Workforce

    August 8, 2016

    Oxford Government Review |  By Elizabeth Linos (Ph.D. '16), in the inaugural issue of the Oxford Government Review (p. 41). Linos and Harvard's Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, spoke at the Challenges of Government Conference 2016, held at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government in May 2016.

    Linos is currently VP and Head of Research and Evaluation at the Behavioral Insights Team in North America, where she works with city governments across the US to improve programs using behavioral science and to build capacity around rigorous evaluation. Lean more about Linos's research:
    scholar.harvard.edu/elinos

    Vesla Weaver named a 2016 Carnegie Fellow

    Vesla Weaver named a 2016 Carnegie Fellow

    April 19, 2016

    Awardee | Vesla M. Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University) is one of 33 recipients of a prestigious Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences. Weaver is Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale, and founding director of its Center for the Study of Inequality.

    From Yale News: "Weaver’s proposal for the Carnegie fellowship, titled “The Faces of American Democracy,” will examine the relationship between poor citizens and communities and government in the United States. The project will provide the first systematic study of how Americans in different communities experience government activity across a number of areas, including schools, social welfare agencies, police and probation agencies, civil ordinances, the housing authority, and child protective services."

    Vesla M. Weaver

    Vesla Weaver named Gilman Scholar

    December 19, 2018

    Awardee | Vesla M. Weaver,  PhD in Government and Social Policy 2007, is one of five Johns Hopkins University faculty members recently named Gilman Scholars, a distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university. A leading scholar on racial politics and criminal justice issues, Weaver has devoted her research to investigating the causes and effects of inequality and mass incarceration in America. Weaver joined Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor in fall 2017, bridging the sociology and political science departments, after holding faculty poitions at Yale and the University of Virginia.  

    Victor Tan Chen

    Victor Tan Chen receives LERA John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award

    April 18, 2017
    Labor Employment Relations Association | Victor Tan Chen (Ph '12), Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, is a recipient of LERA's 2017 John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award for outstanding contributions to research that addresses employment problems of national significance. The selection panel praised Chen’s book, Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy (2015), for providing an “incisive analysis based on first-person stories of the experience of economic restructuring and prolonged joblessness for long-term unemployed autoworkers.”

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