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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday April 3, 2007 Volume 53 Number 28 www.upenn.edu/almanac Five Social Sciences Professors Named to Chairs in SAS book chapters to his credit. Before arriv- ing at the Universi- ty of Pennsylvania in 1992, he taught at Carnegie Mel- lon University and was a senior econ- omist at the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. In 1999, he was hon- ored with the PARC award from the NIH Nancy Hirschmann John MacDonald Hyunjoon Park José-Víctor Ríos-Rull Claudia Valeggia through the Popula- tion Studies Center. R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor micide Studies. He received a B.A. in 1994 in He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1990 from Dr. Nancy Hirschmann has been named the political science from Vassar College and his the University of Minnesota. R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor. Dr. M.A. in 1996 and Ph.D. in 1999 in criminolo- The Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Chair Hirschmann, a member of the department of po- gy and criminal justice from the University of in the Social Sciences was created through the litical science since 2002, is a political theorist Maryland. generosity of the SAS Board of Overseers to hon- working on modern political thought and fem- Jerry Lee is a co-founder and president of the or Dr. Preston’s tenure as the longest serving dean inist theory. Her book, The Subject of Liberty: radio station WBEB-FM, Philadelphia. Mr. Lee in the School’s history. Under his leadership, SAS Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, won also supported the creation of the Jerry Lee Cen- pursued a strategic plan focused on faculty devel- the Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on ter of Criminology at Penn, whose mission is to opment, undergraduate education and selective women and politics from the American Political foster the discovery of both the causes of and investment in core academic programs. Science Association in 2004. Her edited volume, solutions to crime. Francis E. Johnston Term Assistant Feminist Interpretations of John Locke, was Korea Foundation Assistant Professor Professor of Anthropology published in March by the Pennsylvania State of Sociology Dr. Claudia Valeggia has been named the University Press, and her newest book, Gender, Dr. Hyunjoon Park has been named the Ko- Francis E. Johnston Term Assistant Professor of Class, and Freedom in Modern Political The- rea Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociol- Anthropology. Dr. Valeggia specializes in human ory, is forthcoming from Princeton University ogy. Dr. Park’s research areas include social reproductive ecology, reproductive physiology, Press this summer. She received her Ph.D. in stratification; sociology of education, family ethnopediatrics, biosocial perspectives on sexual political science in 1987 from The Johns Hop- and health; and Korean studies. He has been in- and reproductive health and the health of South kins University. volved in several international projects that ex- American indigenous people. She is currently the This chair was created through a gift from amine educational development, intergenera- director of the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecolo- the McLean Contributionship, currently under tional social mobility and the transition to adult- gy Program. She received her Ph.D. in animal be- the direction of Sandra L. McLean. It was es- hood in a comparative perspective focusing on havior in 1996 from the University of California, tablished to honor Dr. Brownlee’s years of ser- Korea and Japan. He received his M.S. in 2003 Davis. She began teaching at Penn in 2005. vice to both the Contributionship and to Penn, in population health science and his Ph.D. in The Francis E. Johnston Endowed Term Chair as well as her lifelong friendship with Mr. and 2005 in sociology, both from the University of was created through the bequest of G. Frederick Mrs. William L. and Elizabeth P. McLean. The Wisconsin-Madison. Roll, W ’34, and is named in honor of Francis E. chair is intended for faculty members particular- The Korea Foundation Professorships were Johnston, a prominent biological anthropologist ly committed to women’s studies at Penn. created through a challenge grant from the Korea and an emeritus professor of anthropology at the Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology Foundation to establish teaching positions ded- University. Dr. Johnston taught in the department Dr. John MacDonald has been named the icated to encouraging an understanding of Ko- of anthropology for more than three decades and Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology. rea. The Korea Foundation’s mission is to foster served as department chair from 1982 to 1994. Dr. MacDonald specializes in the evaluation a better understanding of Korea in the interna- More recently, he founded the Center for Com- of crime and safety policies and interventions tional community and to promote international munity Partnerships’ Urban Nutrition Initiative, a and the etiology of interpersonal violence. Pri- friendship through exchange activities between project which has helped to improve community or to joining the faculty at Penn this past fall, the Republic of Korea and other countries. Their nutrition and wellness in West Philadelphia. gift was matched by funds from generous alum- he served as a behavioral scientist at the RAND IN THIS ISSUE Corporation. He has also served on the faculties ni, parents and other friends of the School. of the University of Florida and the Universi- 2 Deaths: Dr. Austrian, Mr. Keller; Dr. Mossman; Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term ProWomen Awards Breakfast ty of South Carolina and worked as a program Professor in the Social Sciences 3 Honors & Other Things; U.S. News Rankings specialist for the National Institute of Justice, Dr. José-Víctor Ríos-Rull has been named the 4 Council: March Meeting Coverage Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in 6 GSE’s Pre-Doctoral Training Program; U.S. Department of Justice. His latest article, HR: Open Enrollment Reminder; EHRS Training “The Influence of Social and Economic Disad- the Social Sciences. Dr. Ríos-Rull, a member of 25-Year Club’s Next Celebration; One Step Ahead vantage in Youth Homicide over Time,” in col- the department of economics, is a widely pub- 7 Housing Fair; Mail Survey; Update; CrimeStats; Classifieds laboration with Kevin J. Strom, appeared in Ho- lished scholar with over 30 essays, articles and 8 Research Roundup ALMANAC April 3, 2007 www.upenn.edu/almanac 1 Deaths Dr. Robert Austrian, Leader in the Fight Against Pneumococcal Diseases Mr. Keller, GSE Dr. Robert Austrian, John Herr Musser an inspiration to his George C. Keller, former chairman of the Emeritus Professor of Research Medicine in the colleagues and stu- higher education division at the Graduate School School of Medicine and a leading figure in the dents. He was an ac- of Education, died on February 28 at age 78. Faculty Senate Executive Committee Actions prevention of pneumococcal diseases, died on tive participant in Before coming to Penn in 1988, Mr. Keller March 25 at age 90. the weekly clinical served as a strategic planner for the Barton-Gillet Wednesday, February 21, 2007 For more than five decades, beginning in the Infectious Diseases Co., as assistant to the chancellor of the Univer- late 1940s, Dr. Austrian devoted his profession- Case Management sity of Maryland system and of the State Uni- al life to conquering pneumococcal pneumonia, conferences held at versity of New York system, as assistant dean a major killer of the elderly and chronically ill. HUP. He spent six of the college at Columbia University and edi- With the discovery of penicillin in the 1940s, days a week, work- tor of Columbia College Today, and as academ- many thought that fatalities from pneumococ- ing in his laborato- ic director for the Great Books Foundation in cal pneumonia would become a problem of the ry, where he person- Chicago. past. Working with great mastery as a clinician, ally analyzed pneu- In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson pre- epidemiologist, and microbiologist, Dr. Austri- mococcal isolates sented Mr. Keller with the U.S. Steel Founda- an proved that bacteremic pneumococcal pneu- received from col- tion Award for distinguished service to higher monia remained a killer even in the age of anti- leagues around the education. Newsweek magazine recognized him biotics. Although more than 90 strains of pneu- world to track the for excellence in education reporting in 1967, mococci have been discovered, Dr. Austrian epidemiology of in- Robert Austrian and the next year, Atlantic Monthly named him identified those pneumococcal types that most fection, which was education writer of the year. frequently caused disease. He used this infor- an important assessment for determining the After retiring from Penn in 1994, Mr. Keller mation to develop a vaccine to protect against pneumococcal types to include in future genera- worked as a writer and educational consultant the disease, and he personally supervised clini- tions of the vaccine. to institutions and governments throughout the cal trials to prove the vaccine’s efficacy. Dr. Austrian was born in Baltimore on April nation, and authored more than 100 articles and In 1962, Dr. Austrian left the State Universi- 12, 1916. He earned both his A.B. and M.D. de- reviews. He was the author of Academic Strate- ty of New York College of Medicine at Brook- grees from Johns Hopkins University in 1937 gy: The Management Revolution in Higher Ed- lyn to join the medical faculty at Penn, where and 1941, respectively. ucation and Transforming a College, both pub- he served as the John Herr Musser Professor of Among Dr. Austrian’s many awards and hon- lished by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Research Medicine and chair of the department. ors are the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Re- and Prologue to Prominence, published by Lu- He continued his clinical and epidemiological search Award in 1978; election to the National theran University Press.