Congratulations, New Scholars!

Lori Beaman,

Economics

Tim Büthe,

Political Science

Cybelle Fox,

Sociology

John Friedman,

Economics

News

May 2007

Anthony Chen publishes, "The Party of Lincoln and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-64" in the American Journal of Sociology.

April 2007

Alexandra Kalev's groundbreaking new study that shows employee diversity training does not work is featured in Time Magazine.

August 2006

Naomi Murakawa receives the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section.

August 2006

Robert Mickey receives the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral disseration in the field of American Government.

April 2006

Anthony Chen publishes,"The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas: Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in NY State, 1941-45."

Executive Committee

• Robert M. Anderson
• Joan R. Bloom
• Daniel P. Dohan
• Carroll L. Estes
• Jonah D. Levy
• Richard M. Scheffler
• Neil J. Smelser

Robert M. Anderson
Department of Economics

Robert M. Anderson received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977; both degrees were in Mathematics. He was Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Princeton from 1978 to 1982, then Associate Professor of Economics from 1982 to 1983. Since 1983, he has been Associate Professor and then Professor of Economics and Mathematics at UC Berkeley. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1987. His research publications are primarily in mathematical economics. He has a longstanding policy interest in health questions. He chaired the University Committee on Faculty Welfare, the Academic Senate Committee with responsibility for benefit programs for the entire University of California system, in 1998-99, and continues to provide advice to the Committee on a regular basis.