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2012
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A legacy of learning at the School of Social Sciences
Eye on People
T H E M A G A Z I N E O F T H E S C H O O L O F S O C I A L S C I E N C E S A T R I C E U N I V E R S I T Y
2 0 1 2 C E N T E N N I A L E D I T I O N
Celebrating 30Yearsof theKinderHouston Area Survey
12
CLOSEUPCLOSEUPDear Friends of the Social Sciences:
Universities are notorious for moving slowly. Even today when people expect instantaneous
information, academic research ideas—the truly best ones—often take years to explore.
In a world limiting thoughts to 140 characters, the most highly influential academic books are
still often long and ponderous. The very design of the university based on departments and
faculty specialization has changed little since monks devised the first European universities in
the 11th century. So, a 100-year time frame suits the university setting very well. Some might
consider it even a bit short to truly understand the nature of thinking, knowledge, and research innovations and findings.
The Rice centennial offers us an opportunity to look back over the transformations that have occurred since the doors
of the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art opened. But it is an equally
important moment to look forward and reflect on how things will
change at Rice University over the ensuing decades. Rice’s first
100 years have told a truly remarkable story for the social sciences.
The story began with just two economics courses offered in 1914.
The first full-time social science faculty member was not hired until
1927—Frederick Lovell Bixby, assistant professor of psychology.
Today with nearly 80 faculty, we offer 225 undergraduate and
130 graduate courses across a full menu of social science disciplines among Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Economics,
Managerial Studies, Policy Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More undergraduate students major in
the social sciences than they do in engineering, humanities and natural science. And since the mid-1990s, Rice has
graduated more students with bachelor’s degrees in economics than in any other degree program. Rice social scientists
have received millions of dollars of research grants, won numerous teaching awards and served as advisers to governments
and world organizations.
But, still this is truly just the start of Rice’s development in the social sciences. In 1912, Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice’s first
president, urged that the university would address “problems pressing for resolution in a new and rapidly developing country.”
While today the United States is no longer considered “new,” pressing problems in a rapidly developing country and world
surely remain. And at the heart of those problems is human behavior, which Rice social scientists study at the forefront.
Over Rice’s next century, social science researchers will consider why some people willingly act as suicide bombers to
further a political cause and how genetics determine people’s political views. There will be collaborations between Rice
social scientists and medical doctors to address obesity and to help the recovery of stroke victims. There will be joint
studies between Rice economists and computer scientists on whether the internet has increased industrial productivity
or slowed it down. To be a top university in the 21st century, Rice will meld the social sciences with science, medicine,
statistics, business, philosophy and other disciplines. 100 years may seem like a long time, but is merely the beginning.
Lyn Ragsdale
Dean
THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY
Psyc
holo
gy
Socio
logy
Anth
ropo
logy
Econ
omic
sPo
litica
l Scie
nce
Social Sciences:The Early Years 2
HISTORICALTIMELINE12
Human Error is Not JustAbout Humans
14
StudentsThrough theDecades
24Rice Receives $25Million Naming Gift from Robert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building
26
Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?
18
HISTORICALTIMELINE16
Globalizationand DevelopingEconomies6
HISTORICALTIMELINE4
HISTORICALTIMELINE8
Kinship and a New Era inAnthropology
10
HISTORICALTIMELINE20Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science
22
Partner With Us
29
Close Up is produced by the School of Social Sciences at Rice University. In 2012, the Close Up magazine series received a Silver Award from CASE(Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District IV in the category of Magazines-FourColors Throughout in the CASE Accolades competition.
CorrespondenceSchool of Social Sciences, MS-27Rice UniversityPO Box 1892Houston, TX [email protected]
Http://socialsciences.rice.edu
Editor Lisa Birenbaum
ContributorsB. J. AlmondLisa BirenbaumDominic BoyerDawn DorseyJennifer GucwaJulie PlatekErik TannerRick K. Wilson
Copy EditorJennifer Gucwa
PhotographyLisa BirenbaumTommy LaVergneIpek MartinezErik TannerWoodson Research Center
Design and Art DirectionSulewski Design
Special Thanks To: Ron Soligo, Amanda Focke, John Boles, Melissa Kean and the Woodson Research Center
On the Cover: Marie Chatfield,
Mingming Jiang, Rebecca Satterfield,
Satoshi Mizutani, Devin Glick, Navi Dhaliwal,
Jasmine Elliott, Izzy Spanswick, Chris Keller,
Lauren Theis, Graham Johnson, Sherry Lin,
Danny Cohen, Kelsey Wooddell and
Marc Sabbagh
2 0 1 2 C E N T E N N I A L E D I T I O N
Celebrating 30Yearsof theKinderHouston Area Survey
12
CLOSEUPCLOSEUPDear Friends of the Social Sciences:
Universities are notorious for moving slowly. Even today when people expect instantaneous
information, academic research ideas—the truly best ones—often take years to explore.
In a world limiting thoughts to 140 characters, the most highly influential academic books are
still often long and ponderous. The very design of the university based on departments and
faculty specialization has changed little since monks devised the first European universities in
the 11th century. So, a 100-year time frame suits the university setting very well. Some might
consider it even a bit short to truly understand the nature of thinking, knowledge, and research innovations and findings.
The Rice centennial offers us an opportunity to look back over the transformations that have occurred since the doors
of the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art opened. But it is an equally
important moment to look forward and reflect on how things will
change at Rice University over the ensuing decades. Rice’s first
100 years have told a truly remarkable story for the social sciences.
The story began with just two economics courses offered in 1914.
The first full-time social science faculty member was not hired until
1927—Frederick Lovell Bixby, assistant professor of psychology.
Today with nearly 80 faculty, we offer 225 undergraduate and
130 graduate courses across a full menu of social science disciplines among Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences, Economics,
Managerial Studies, Policy Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More undergraduate students major in
the social sciences than they do in engineering, humanities and natural science. And since the mid-1990s, Rice has
graduated more students with bachelor’s degrees in economics than in any other degree program. Rice social scientists
have received millions of dollars of research grants, won numerous teaching awards and served as advisers to governments
and world organizations.
But, still this is truly just the start of Rice’s development in the social sciences. In 1912, Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice’s first
president, urged that the university would address “problems pressing for resolution in a new and rapidly developing country.”
While today the United States is no longer considered “new,” pressing problems in a rapidly developing country and world
surely remain. And at the heart of those problems is human behavior, which Rice social scientists study at the forefront.
Over Rice’s next century, social science researchers will consider why some people willingly act as suicide bombers to
further a political cause and how genetics determine people’s political views. There will be collaborations between Rice
social scientists and medical doctors to address obesity and to help the recovery of stroke victims. There will be joint
studies between Rice economists and computer scientists on whether the internet has increased industrial productivity
or slowed it down. To be a top university in the 21st century, Rice will meld the social sciences with science, medicine,
statistics, business, philosophy and other disciplines. 100 years may seem like a long time, but is merely the beginning.
Lyn Ragsdale
Dean
THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AT RICE UNIVERSITY
Psyc
holo
gy
Socio
logy
Anth
ropo
logy
Econ
omic
sPo
litica
l Scie
nce
Social Sciences:The Early Years 2
HISTORICALTIMELINE12
Human Error is Not JustAbout Humans
14
StudentsThrough theDecades
24Rice Receives $25Million Naming Gift from Robert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building
26
Who Gets What Passed in Presidential Democracies?
18
HISTORICALTIMELINE16
Globalizationand DevelopingEconomies6
HISTORICALTIMELINE4
HISTORICALTIMELINE8
Kinship and a New Era inAnthropology
10
HISTORICALTIMELINE20Understanding the Power of Religion in Politics and Science
22
Partner With Us
29
Close Up is produced by the School of Social Sciences at Rice University. In 2012, the Close Up magazine series received a Silver Award from CASE(Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District IV in the category of Magazines-FourColors Throughout in the CASE Accolades competition.
CorrespondenceSchool of Social Sciences, MS-27Rice UniversityPO Box 1892Houston, TX [email protected]
Http://socialsciences.rice.edu
Editor Lisa Birenbaum
ContributorsB. J. AlmondLisa BirenbaumDominic BoyerDawn DorseyJennifer GucwaJulie PlatekErik TannerRick K. Wilson
Copy EditorJennifer Gucwa
PhotographyLisa BirenbaumTommy LaVergneIpek MartinezErik TannerWoodson Research Center
Design and Art DirectionSulewski Design
Special Thanks To: Ron Soligo, Amanda Focke, John Boles, Melissa Kean and the Woodson Research Center
On the Cover: Marie Chatfield,
Mingming Jiang, Rebecca Satterfield,
Satoshi Mizutani, Devin Glick, Navi Dhaliwal,
Jasmine Elliott, Izzy Spanswick, Chris Keller,
Lauren Theis, Graham Johnson, Sherry Lin,
Danny Cohen, Kelsey Wooddell and
Marc Sabbagh
1912
Social Sciences:The EarlyYears
By: Rick K. Wilson
It is commonly thought that the RiceInstitute was founded as an engineeringand science college with a nod to humanities. However, from the beginning the social sciences played a role in Rice’s development.
1920s 1940/50s
1931
1960s
1979
1915By 1915, Dr. Robert Granville Caldwell
was hired as an assistant professor of history
to teach courses in economics and political
economy. In many ways this was the start of
the social sciences at Rice, with History 200
focusing on constitutional political systems.
By all accounts
Dr. Caldwell
was a popular
teacher, and
students
flocked to his
Economics 310
course entitled
Social Economics.
This course
focused on
problems associated with social conditions
in the United States, particularly in urban
areas. Houston was the laboratory and
students celebrated the course in this 1918
Campanille drawing. Dr. Caldwell can be
seen introducing students to the plentiful
vices available in the big city. Dr. Caldwell
quickly became dean of the institute and left
Rice to become ambassador to Portugal in 1933.
At the inauguration
in 1912, the renowned
historian, Rafael Altamira
y Crevea, delivered three
lectures that might
resonate with the social
sciences today. The
first dealt with issues of
methodology in the study
of humans; the second
dealt with a general
theory of civilization touching on the
importance of economics and political
institutions; and the third dealt
with general laws of the diffusion of
knowledge across nations. While the
attendees may have struggled to keep
awake following the turgid prose, the
ideas were as grand as the aspirations
of the new institute.
The early days of the social sciences
were not without controversy. Lyford
Paterson Edwards, a sociologist, was hired
in 1918. While teaching an adult Sunday
school class in 1919, he touched on the
Russian revolution, noting that in 100
years Lenin would be given the same
regard as George Washington and added
that Lenin was perhaps a greater idealist
than Washington. A member of the class
objected to this line of reasoning. Houston’s
press, followed by the mayor, entered the
fray. This led the board of trustees to
demand that Edwards be fired. The faculty
strongly objected, but in the end President
Lovett acceded to the board and fired
Edwards. Sociology was put on the back
burner for many decades and courses
offered in the 1920s focused more on
social psychology and citizenship.
In 1931, the economics program
(with a grand total of three faculty)
graduated its first major. By 1932, a
separate program in psychology appeared
with the addition of Dr. Frank Pattie.
Psychology 200 required Biology 100
and covered the physiology of the nervous
system, sense and perception, memory
and “intelligent behavior.” At the end
of the course, two branches were offered –
either animal psychology or abnormal
psychology.
Into the 1940s economics and psychology
constituted the social sciences. However,
early in the 1950s political science was finally
listed as a separate area of study.
C.M. (Hank)
Hudspeth began
teaching as
a lecturer in
government,
offering the peren-
nial favorite, Political Science 210,
American Government.
By the early 1960s, all of the social science
programs existed on paper. Economics included
business administration – a precursor to the
Jones Graduate School of Business. Psychology
was a stand-alone major. The Department of
Anthropology and Sociology was established
and political science was housed in the History
Department. With the appointment of Kenneth
S. Pitzer as Rice’s 3rd president, the institute
changed. With the change in name to
Rice University, Pitzer had a vision
for creating a first-rate research and
teaching university. He could not
imagine moving forward without the
full participation of the social sciences.
His 5-year plan focused on building
up psychology and political science.
The 10-year plan was to enhance each of the social
science programs, create separate departments and
establish a School of Social Sciences. It took only a
little longer than the 10 years for this to happen.
In 1979, the social science departments
separated from the School of Humanities to
establish the School of Social Sciences.
2 3E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Sociology Department Faculty, 1979
Anthropology Department Faculty, 1979
Political Science Department Faculty, 1979
Psychology Department Faculty, 1979
Economics Department Faculty, 1979
1912
Social Sciences:The EarlyYears
By: Rick K. Wilson
It is commonly thought that the RiceInstitute was founded as an engineeringand science college with a nod to humanities. However, from the beginning the social sciences played a role in Rice’s development.
1920s 1940/50s
1931
1960s
1979
1915By 1915, Dr. Robert Granville Caldwell
was hired as an assistant professor of history
to teach courses in economics and political
economy. In many ways this was the start of
the social sciences at Rice, with History 200
focusing on constitutional political systems.
By all accounts
Dr. Caldwell
was a popular
teacher, and
students
flocked to his
Economics 310
course entitled
Social Economics.
This course
focused on
problems associated with social conditions
in the United States, particularly in urban
areas. Houston was the laboratory and
students celebrated the course in this 1918
Campanille drawing. Dr. Caldwell can be
seen introducing students to the plentiful
vices available in the big city. Dr. Caldwell
quickly became dean of the institute and left
Rice to become ambassador to Portugal in 1933.
At the inauguration
in 1912, the renowned
historian, Rafael Altamira
y Crevea, delivered three
lectures that might
resonate with the social
sciences today. The
first dealt with issues of
methodology in the study
of humans; the second
dealt with a general
theory of civilization touching on the
importance of economics and political
institutions; and the third dealt
with general laws of the diffusion of
knowledge across nations. While the
attendees may have struggled to keep
awake following the turgid prose, the
ideas were as grand as the aspirations
of the new institute.
The early days of the social sciences
were not without controversy. Lyford
Paterson Edwards, a sociologist, was hired
in 1918. While teaching an adult Sunday
school class in 1919, he touched on the
Russian revolution, noting that in 100
years Lenin would be given the same
regard as George Washington and added
that Lenin was perhaps a greater idealist
than Washington. A member of the class
objected to this line of reasoning. Houston’s
press, followed by the mayor, entered the
fray. This led the board of trustees to
demand that Edwards be fired. The faculty
strongly objected, but in the end President
Lovett acceded to the board and fired
Edwards. Sociology was put on the back
burner for many decades and courses
offered in the 1920s focused more on
social psychology and citizenship.
In 1931, the economics program
(with a grand total of three faculty)
graduated its first major. By 1932, a
separate program in psychology appeared
with the addition of Dr. Frank Pattie.
Psychology 200 required Biology 100
and covered the physiology of the nervous
system, sense and perception, memory
and “intelligent behavior.” At the end
of the course, two branches were offered –
either animal psychology or abnormal
psychology.
Into the 1940s economics and psychology
constituted the social sciences. However,
early in the 1950s political science was finally
listed as a separate area of study.
C.M. (Hank)
Hudspeth began
teaching as
a lecturer in
government,
offering the peren-
nial favorite, Political Science 210,
American Government.
By the early 1960s, all of the social science
programs existed on paper. Economics included
business administration – a precursor to the
Jones Graduate School of Business. Psychology
was a stand-alone major. The Department of
Anthropology and Sociology was established
and political science was housed in the History
Department. With the appointment of Kenneth
S. Pitzer as Rice’s 3rd president, the institute
changed. With the change in name to
Rice University, Pitzer had a vision
for creating a first-rate research and
teaching university. He could not
imagine moving forward without the
full participation of the social sciences.
His 5-year plan focused on building
up psychology and political science.
The 10-year plan was to enhance each of the social
science programs, create separate departments and
establish a School of Social Sciences. It took only a
little longer than the 10 years for this to happen.
In 1979, the social science departments
separated from the School of Humanities to
establish the School of Social Sciences.
2 3E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Sociology Department Faculty, 1979
Anthropology Department Faculty, 1979
Political Science Department Faculty, 1979
Psychology Department Faculty, 1979
Economics Department Faculty, 1979
1930s-1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980-1990s 2000s 2010s
4 5
F I R S T1931The first economics major,
Col. Thurman Ward, graduates.
1947Business Administration and
Economics is listed in the General
Announcements as an academic
major and is established as a
department. Courses in economics
have been offered since 1914.
F I R S T
F I R S T F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T+6th
E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
F I R S T
1960The department becomes the
Department of Economics and
Business Administration as
Sociology joins the newly formed
Department of Anthropology.
1961
The economics faculty and
course offerings, as well as
the social sciences in general,
significantly expand under
the presidency of Kenneth
Pitzer, 1961-1968.
The Ph.D. program in Economics
is established. This is the first Ph.D.
program in the Social Sciences.
1962Professor Edgar O. Edwards
is appointed by President
Pitzer to join the newly
created Academic Planning
Committee. In 1964, the
committee publishes a
Ten-Year Plan which calls
for the expansion of Rice
University including
the social sciences.
F I R S T
Professor Peter Mieszkowski
receives the National Tax Association’s
Daniel
Holland
Medal. It
is awarded
for out-
standing
contribu-
tions to the study and practice of
public finance.
2010Professor Peter Hartley receives
the U.S. Association for Energy
Economics (USAEE) Senior
Fellow Award.
A gift from
Purvez
Captain ’93
creates the
Graduate
Economics
Alumni
Lecture Series under the direction
of Professor Robin Sickles.
2012The Departmentof Economics Currently the department has 20 full-time faculty members andover 40 graduate students who specialize in microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, appliedeconomics and econometrics. Overthe years, faculty members havereceived funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Treasury.
2009Professor James Brown receives
the George R. Brown Prize
for Excellence in Teaching.
Other university teaching
awards he has received:
George R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching 2006, 2007
and the first Sarah A. Burnett
Teaching Prize in 2011.
Professor George Zodrow
receives the National Tax
Association’s Stephen Gold
Award. It
is awarded
annually to
professionals
who have
made
“significant
contribu-
tions to state and local fiscal
policy and whose work reflects
Steve Gold’s remarkable ability
to span the interests of
scholars, practitioners, policy-
makers and advocates with
integrity and evenhandedness,”
according to the NTA’s Web site.
1996The endowed Chair in Islamic
Economics, Finance and
Management is established.
Professor
Mahmoud
El-Gamal
holds the
first chair.
Economics faculty play a major
role in creating the
energy program
at the James A.
Baker III Institute.
2002The George and Cynthia Mitchell
Endowed Chair in Sustainable
Development is established.
Professor
Peter
Hartley
holds the
first chair.
2008The Department of Economics
ranks 6th in the nation in public
economics and 19th nationally in
mathematical and quantitative
economics, Rankings of Economics
Departments by Fields, The
Journal of Economic Literature.
The department takes on
its current name of the
Department of Economics
when Accounting becomes
part of the Jones School of
Business. Professor Gaston V.
Rimlinger is department chair.
1979Professor Richard A. Butler
receives
the George
R. Brown
Award for
Superior
Teaching.
1981The Rice chapter
of Omicron
Delta Epsilon,
the International
Honor Society
for Economics,
is installed.
1983Professor
Hervé
Moulin is
elected
as a
fellow
in the
Econometric Society.
1984The mathematical economics
analysis major is added.
1993Economist Malcolm Gillis
becomes Rice's sixth president.
1970The department is renamed
the Department of Economics
and Accounting.
The Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline
Professorship in Economics
and Finance is created by
the estate of Gladys M. Cline
to encourage outstanding
instruction in economics
and finance, the professional
fields in
which she
and her
brother
were
engaged
for many
years. Professor Charles McLure
holds the first chair.
1976The George A. Peterkin Chair
of Political Economy is
established by Mrs. George A.
Peterkin, George A. Peterkin,
Jr., and Patricia Peterkin
Pryor in memory of George
A. Peterkin. Its purpose
is to promote teaching and
scholarship in the field of
economics. In addition to
establishing an endowed
chair, the gift enables the
department
to create
a lecture
series,
to bring
in Nobel
prize winner
Douglass North as a visiting
professor, and to invite Nobel
prize
winners
James
Mirrlees
and
Robert
Solow to
lecture. Professor Dagobert
Brito holds the first chair.
The Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in
Economics is established under
a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman
Martel in
honor of
her father,
founder and
president
of Houston
National
Bank until his death in 1912.
Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger
holds the first chair.
1963The first Ph.D.s in Economics are
awarded to Emiel Veendorp and
Henderikus Werkema. These
are also the first Ph.D.s awarded
in the Social Sciences.
1964The Department of Economics and
Business Administration begins a
five-year program in accounting.
1969The Program of Development
Studies is created. The program
looks at the problems of
developing countries in their
efforts to achieve economic,
political and social growth.
The program is initially funded
by a grant from Mr. and Mrs.
John de Menil to set up one
of the first interdisciplinary
social science centers at Rice.
Professor Jim Land is its director.
Participating faculty come from
Economics, Political Science
and Anthropology.
1950The Department of Business
Administration and Economics
houses Sociology.
1958The Reginald Henry Hargrove
Chair of Economics is established
in memory of Mr. Hargrove by
Mrs. R. H.
Hargrove
and the
Texas
Eastern
Transmission
Corporation.
Professor Edgar O. Edwards
holds the first chair.
1930s-1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980-1990s 2000s 2010s
4 5
F I R S T1931The first economics major,
Col. Thurman Ward, graduates.
1947Business Administration and
Economics is listed in the General
Announcements as an academic
major and is established as a
department. Courses in economics
have been offered since 1914.
F I R S T
F I R S T F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T+6th
E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
F I R S T
1960The department becomes the
Department of Economics and
Business Administration as
Sociology joins the newly formed
Department of Anthropology.
1961
The economics faculty and
course offerings, as well as
the social sciences in general,
significantly expand under
the presidency of Kenneth
Pitzer, 1961-1968.
The Ph.D. program in Economics
is established. This is the first Ph.D.
program in the Social Sciences.
1962Professor Edgar O. Edwards
is appointed by President
Pitzer to join the newly
created Academic Planning
Committee. In 1964, the
committee publishes a
Ten-Year Plan which calls
for the expansion of Rice
University including
the social sciences.
F I R S T
Professor Peter Mieszkowski
receives the National Tax Association’s
Daniel
Holland
Medal. It
is awarded
for out-
standing
contribu-
tions to the study and practice of
public finance.
2010Professor Peter Hartley receives
the U.S. Association for Energy
Economics (USAEE) Senior
Fellow Award.
A gift from
Purvez
Captain ’93
creates the
Graduate
Economics
Alumni
Lecture Series under the direction
of Professor Robin Sickles.
2012The Departmentof Economics Currently the department has 20 full-time faculty members andover 40 graduate students who specialize in microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, appliedeconomics and econometrics. Overthe years, faculty members havereceived funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Treasury.
2009Professor James Brown receives
the George R. Brown Prize
for Excellence in Teaching.
Other university teaching
awards he has received:
George R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching 2006, 2007
and the first Sarah A. Burnett
Teaching Prize in 2011.
Professor George Zodrow
receives the National Tax
Association’s Stephen Gold
Award. It
is awarded
annually to
professionals
who have
made
“significant
contribu-
tions to state and local fiscal
policy and whose work reflects
Steve Gold’s remarkable ability
to span the interests of
scholars, practitioners, policy-
makers and advocates with
integrity and evenhandedness,”
according to the NTA’s Web site.
1996The endowed Chair in Islamic
Economics, Finance and
Management is established.
Professor
Mahmoud
El-Gamal
holds the
first chair.
Economics faculty play a major
role in creating the
energy program
at the James A.
Baker III Institute.
2002The George and Cynthia Mitchell
Endowed Chair in Sustainable
Development is established.
Professor
Peter
Hartley
holds the
first chair.
2008The Department of Economics
ranks 6th in the nation in public
economics and 19th nationally in
mathematical and quantitative
economics, Rankings of Economics
Departments by Fields, The
Journal of Economic Literature.
The department takes on
its current name of the
Department of Economics
when Accounting becomes
part of the Jones School of
Business. Professor Gaston V.
Rimlinger is department chair.
1979Professor Richard A. Butler
receives
the George
R. Brown
Award for
Superior
Teaching.
1981The Rice chapter
of Omicron
Delta Epsilon,
the International
Honor Society
for Economics,
is installed.
1983Professor
Hervé
Moulin is
elected
as a
fellow
in the
Econometric Society.
1984The mathematical economics
analysis major is added.
1993Economist Malcolm Gillis
becomes Rice's sixth president.
1970The department is renamed
the Department of Economics
and Accounting.
The Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline
Professorship in Economics
and Finance is created by
the estate of Gladys M. Cline
to encourage outstanding
instruction in economics
and finance, the professional
fields in
which she
and her
brother
were
engaged
for many
years. Professor Charles McLure
holds the first chair.
1976The George A. Peterkin Chair
of Political Economy is
established by Mrs. George A.
Peterkin, George A. Peterkin,
Jr., and Patricia Peterkin
Pryor in memory of George
A. Peterkin. Its purpose
is to promote teaching and
scholarship in the field of
economics. In addition to
establishing an endowed
chair, the gift enables the
department
to create
a lecture
series,
to bring
in Nobel
prize winner
Douglass North as a visiting
professor, and to invite Nobel
prize
winners
James
Mirrlees
and
Robert
Solow to
lecture. Professor Dagobert
Brito holds the first chair.
The Henry S. Fox, Sr. Chair in
Economics is established under
a bequest by Mamie Fox Twyman
Martel in
honor of
her father,
founder and
president
of Houston
National
Bank until his death in 1912.
Professor Gaston V. Rimlinger
holds the first chair.
1963The first Ph.D.s in Economics are
awarded to Emiel Veendorp and
Henderikus Werkema. These
are also the first Ph.D.s awarded
in the Social Sciences.
1964The Department of Economics and
Business Administration begins a
five-year program in accounting.
1969The Program of Development
Studies is created. The program
looks at the problems of
developing countries in their
efforts to achieve economic,
political and social growth.
The program is initially funded
by a grant from Mr. and Mrs.
John de Menil to set up one
of the first interdisciplinary
social science centers at Rice.
Professor Jim Land is its director.
Participating faculty come from
Economics, Political Science
and Anthropology.
1950The Department of Business
Administration and Economics
houses Sociology.
1958The Reginald Henry Hargrove
Chair of Economics is established
in memory of Mr. Hargrove by
Mrs. R. H.
Hargrove
and the
Texas
Eastern
Transmission
Corporation.
Professor Edgar O. Edwards
holds the first chair.
Globalization and Developing Economies
E C O N O M I C S
The overland Silk Road, a historic interconnection of trade routes acrossAsia, Africa and Europe begun in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), is one of the earliest examples of globalization—as various regions of the world became interconnected around trading of silk.
RIMLINGER AND EL-GAMAL NOT ONLYEXPLORED THE NATURE OF GLOBAL MARKETSBUT, OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, UNDERSTOODHOW COUNTRIES’ INTERNAL ECONOMICAND POLITICAL GROWTH AND STABILITYARE INFLUENCED BY GLOBALIZATION.
and planning of African countries,
especially Nigeria, Senegal and
Lebanon. Specifically, he considered
how governments’ internal invest-
ments and expenditures directly
affected these countries’efforts to
minimize imports and, as a result,
have stronger
domestic
production.
Focusing
on the impor-
tance of the
Middle East in
global markets,
Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal,
Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance
and Management, who joined the
Rice economics faculty in 1998, has
examined how the economies of
resource-rich Middle East countries
affect and are affected by the global
economy. In a critically-acclaimed
book, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises,
El-Gamal (with co-author Amy Jaffe)
offered a complex picture in which
transfers of wealth to and from the Middle
East result in the perfect storm of global
asset and financial market bubbles;
additional domestic unrest, terrorism
and geopolitical conflicts; and, eventually,
rising costs for energy. He examined the
implications of these global exchanges for
the domestic
stability of Middle
Eastern nations
and concluded
that there has
been a basic
failure of Middle
Eastern govern-
ments and economies to diversify and
adequately invest in their populations.
The book had prescient understanding
about many of the problems that
produced the Arab Spring.
Thus, Rimlinger and El-Gamal
not only explored the nature of global
markets but, of equal importance,
understood how countries’ internal
economic and political growth and
stability are influenced by globalization.
et, the term “globalization”
only came into common use
in the 1980s as more and
more of the world’s cultural,
political and economic activities grew
interdependent. Today, as the entire
world depends on Chinese growth
and worries about the economic fault
lines of Europe, the interdependency
of the world’s big and small, developed
and developing economies is striking.
Far ahead of his time, Gaston V.
Rimlinger, first holder of the Henry
S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics, studied
the importance of developing economies
in Africa and their relations to global
markets. Rimlinger joined the
Rice economics faculty in 1960 and
in 1969 became program director
for the Ford Foundation’s efforts in
western Africa. Rimlinger completed
extensive research on the effects of
globalization on the internal
economic development
Y
6 7E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Globalization and Developing Economies
E C O N O M I C S
The overland Silk Road, a historic interconnection of trade routes acrossAsia, Africa and Europe begun in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), is one of the earliest examples of globalization—as various regions of the world became interconnected around trading of silk.
RIMLINGER AND EL-GAMAL NOT ONLYEXPLORED THE NATURE OF GLOBAL MARKETSBUT, OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, UNDERSTOODHOW COUNTRIES’ INTERNAL ECONOMICAND POLITICAL GROWTH AND STABILITYARE INFLUENCED BY GLOBALIZATION.
and planning of African countries,
especially Nigeria, Senegal and
Lebanon. Specifically, he considered
how governments’ internal invest-
ments and expenditures directly
affected these countries’efforts to
minimize imports and, as a result,
have stronger
domestic
production.
Focusing
on the impor-
tance of the
Middle East in
global markets,
Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal,
Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance
and Management, who joined the
Rice economics faculty in 1998, has
examined how the economies of
resource-rich Middle East countries
affect and are affected by the global
economy. In a critically-acclaimed
book, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises,
El-Gamal (with co-author Amy Jaffe)
offered a complex picture in which
transfers of wealth to and from the Middle
East result in the perfect storm of global
asset and financial market bubbles;
additional domestic unrest, terrorism
and geopolitical conflicts; and, eventually,
rising costs for energy. He examined the
implications of these global exchanges for
the domestic
stability of Middle
Eastern nations
and concluded
that there has
been a basic
failure of Middle
Eastern govern-
ments and economies to diversify and
adequately invest in their populations.
The book had prescient understanding
about many of the problems that
produced the Arab Spring.
Thus, Rimlinger and El-Gamal
not only explored the nature of global
markets but, of equal importance,
understood how countries’ internal
economic and political growth and
stability are influenced by globalization.
et, the term “globalization”
only came into common use
in the 1980s as more and
more of the world’s cultural,
political and economic activities grew
interdependent. Today, as the entire
world depends on Chinese growth
and worries about the economic fault
lines of Europe, the interdependency
of the world’s big and small, developed
and developing economies is striking.
Far ahead of his time, Gaston V.
Rimlinger, first holder of the Henry
S. Fox, Sr. Chair in Economics, studied
the importance of developing economies
in Africa and their relations to global
markets. Rimlinger joined the
Rice economics faculty in 1960 and
in 1969 became program director
for the Ford Foundation’s efforts in
western Africa. Rimlinger completed
extensive research on the effects of
globalization on the internal
economic development
Y
6 7E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
1960s-1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
2010Professor Dominic Boyer founds
the book series Expertise:
Cultures and
Technologies
of Knowledge
with Cornell
University
Press.
Professor Susan McIntosh
becomes speaker of the
Rice Faculty Senate.
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T F I R S T
1960The Department of Anthopology
and Sociology is created with
one full-time faculty member,
anthropologist Edward Norbeck.
1963Rice hires its first archaeologist,
Dr. Frank Hole, a specialist
on Iran.
1965
Professor Mary Ellen Goodman
becomes the first tenured
female faculty member in the
Social Sciences at Rice.
1980A new Ph.D. program in
Anthropology is founded to
replace a previous program
in Behavioral Sciences.
Specializations include
social/cultural anthropology,
biological anthropology
and archaeology.
Professor George Marcus
becomes chair of the depart-
ment and serves for 25 years,
1980-2005. Marcus is the
longest serving chair in the
Social Sciences.
1982The first Ph.D. in Anthropology
is awarded to Deborah
Harvey Delgado. Delgado
went on to earn a J.D. from the
University of Texas at Austin
and is currently a special trial
attorney with the Internal
Revenue Service.
8 9E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
2012The Department of AnthropologyCurrently the Department has
8 full-time faculty members
and over 25 graduate students
who specialize in social and
cultural anthropology and
archaeology. Faculty members
have received several grants
from the National Science
Foundation (NSF).
Professor George Marcus
founds the journal Cultural
Anthropology, currently the
journal with the highest
impact factor in anthropology.
1987
The Center for Cultural
Studies is established with
Professor Michael Fischer
as its first director. The center
later becomes the Humanities
Research Center.
1990Professor Roderick McIntosh
is named a Guggenheim Fellow
at the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford.
7th1966"The Study of Personality" con-
ference, organized by Professor
Edward Norbeck is held at Rice.
Margaret Mead gives a keynote
lecture and attendance is
estimated at over 2,000.
1970The departments of
Anthropology and Sociology
separate.
The separation
agreement is
formalized in 1971.
The new Anthropology
Department has six
faculty members and
its first department
chair is Professor
Stephen Tyler.
1994Professor Eugenia Georges
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching.
She receives the award again
in 1997, 1998, and 2010 and
the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished
Teacher Award in 2002.
1995Professor Susan McIntosh is
named to a U.S. Presidential
Advisory Committee on
Cultural Property and serves
two terms until 2003.
1997Rice archaeologists embark
on the Mali Interactive Project,
an interactive project that
links Rice archaeologists in
the field in the Mali Inland
Niger Delta with middle school
students in the Conroe
Independent
School
District
in Texas.
The Anthropology
Department works in conjunction
with the Yates Community
Archaeology Project (YCAP),
sponsored by the Rutherford B.H.
Yates Museum, to excavate a
historic African-American neigh-
borhood known as Freedman's
Town in Houston's Fourth Ward.
2009
Professor Jeffrey Fleisher establishes
the Rice University Archaeological
Field School in Songo Mnara,
located on a small island just off
the southern Tanzanian coast.
1983The Department of Anthropology
establishes the Rice Circle. The
Rice Circle offers participants
from Anthropology, History,
Sociology, modern languages,
Philosophy and other
departments the opportunity
to discuss such topics as
theories of aesthetics,
postmodernism in literature,
ethnography in anthropology
and critical discourse in
literary theory.
1986Professor George Marcus and
Professor Michael Fischer
publish Anthropology
as Cultural Critique: An
Experimental Moment in
the Social Sciences. In the
same year, Marcus co-edits
with James Clifford of the
University of California at Santa
Cruz the collection Writing
Culture: The
Poetics and
Politics of
Ethnography.
Together,
the two
volumes
galvanize a discipline-wide
discussion of the modes
and ends of anthropological
inquiry and bring Rice into
the limelight as among the most
distinguished small programs
nationally and internationally.
Lingua Franca's
Real Guide
to Grad School
ranks the Rice
program
in cultural anthropology seventh
in the nation.
1998Professor James Faubion edits
the first of two volumes of the
influential
Essential
Works
of Michel
Foucault
series on
“Aesthetics,
Methodology and Epistemology.”
2006Professor Susan McIntosh
establishes the Rice University
Archaeology Field School in the
small island town of Gorée,
located off the coast of Senegal.
2008Professor Eugenia Georges
receives the Norman and Roselea
J. Goldberg
Prize for the
Best Project
in the Area
of Medicine
for her book
Bodies of
Knowledge: The Medicalization
of Reproduction in Greece.
1960s-1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
2010Professor Dominic Boyer founds
the book series Expertise:
Cultures and
Technologies
of Knowledge
with Cornell
University
Press.
Professor Susan McIntosh
becomes speaker of the
Rice Faculty Senate.
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T F I R S T
1960The Department of Anthopology
and Sociology is created with
one full-time faculty member,
anthropologist Edward Norbeck.
1963Rice hires its first archaeologist,
Dr. Frank Hole, a specialist
on Iran.
1965
Professor Mary Ellen Goodman
becomes the first tenured
female faculty member in the
Social Sciences at Rice.
1980A new Ph.D. program in
Anthropology is founded to
replace a previous program
in Behavioral Sciences.
Specializations include
social/cultural anthropology,
biological anthropology
and archaeology.
Professor George Marcus
becomes chair of the depart-
ment and serves for 25 years,
1980-2005. Marcus is the
longest serving chair in the
Social Sciences.
1982The first Ph.D. in Anthropology
is awarded to Deborah
Harvey Delgado. Delgado
went on to earn a J.D. from the
University of Texas at Austin
and is currently a special trial
attorney with the Internal
Revenue Service.
8 9E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
2012The Department of AnthropologyCurrently the Department has
8 full-time faculty members
and over 25 graduate students
who specialize in social and
cultural anthropology and
archaeology. Faculty members
have received several grants
from the National Science
Foundation (NSF).
Professor George Marcus
founds the journal Cultural
Anthropology, currently the
journal with the highest
impact factor in anthropology.
1987
The Center for Cultural
Studies is established with
Professor Michael Fischer
as its first director. The center
later becomes the Humanities
Research Center.
1990Professor Roderick McIntosh
is named a Guggenheim Fellow
at the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford.
7th1966"The Study of Personality" con-
ference, organized by Professor
Edward Norbeck is held at Rice.
Margaret Mead gives a keynote
lecture and attendance is
estimated at over 2,000.
1970The departments of
Anthropology and Sociology
separate.
The separation
agreement is
formalized in 1971.
The new Anthropology
Department has six
faculty members and
its first department
chair is Professor
Stephen Tyler.
1994Professor Eugenia Georges
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching.
She receives the award again
in 1997, 1998, and 2010 and
the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished
Teacher Award in 2002.
1995Professor Susan McIntosh is
named to a U.S. Presidential
Advisory Committee on
Cultural Property and serves
two terms until 2003.
1997Rice archaeologists embark
on the Mali Interactive Project,
an interactive project that
links Rice archaeologists in
the field in the Mali Inland
Niger Delta with middle school
students in the Conroe
Independent
School
District
in Texas.
The Anthropology
Department works in conjunction
with the Yates Community
Archaeology Project (YCAP),
sponsored by the Rutherford B.H.
Yates Museum, to excavate a
historic African-American neigh-
borhood known as Freedman's
Town in Houston's Fourth Ward.
2009
Professor Jeffrey Fleisher establishes
the Rice University Archaeological
Field School in Songo Mnara,
located on a small island just off
the southern Tanzanian coast.
1983The Department of Anthropology
establishes the Rice Circle. The
Rice Circle offers participants
from Anthropology, History,
Sociology, modern languages,
Philosophy and other
departments the opportunity
to discuss such topics as
theories of aesthetics,
postmodernism in literature,
ethnography in anthropology
and critical discourse in
literary theory.
1986Professor George Marcus and
Professor Michael Fischer
publish Anthropology
as Cultural Critique: An
Experimental Moment in
the Social Sciences. In the
same year, Marcus co-edits
with James Clifford of the
University of California at Santa
Cruz the collection Writing
Culture: The
Poetics and
Politics of
Ethnography.
Together,
the two
volumes
galvanize a discipline-wide
discussion of the modes
and ends of anthropological
inquiry and bring Rice into
the limelight as among the most
distinguished small programs
nationally and internationally.
Lingua Franca's
Real Guide
to Grad School
ranks the Rice
program
in cultural anthropology seventh
in the nation.
1998Professor James Faubion edits
the first of two volumes of the
influential
Essential
Works
of Michel
Foucault
series on
“Aesthetics,
Methodology and Epistemology.”
2006Professor Susan McIntosh
establishes the Rice University
Archaeology Field School in the
small island town of Gorée,
located off the coast of Senegal.
2008Professor Eugenia Georges
receives the Norman and Roselea
J. Goldberg
Prize for the
Best Project
in the Area
of Medicine
for her book
Bodies of
Knowledge: The Medicalization
of Reproduction in Greece.
Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology
A N T H R O P O L O G Y
With the explosion of information available on the internet, many people havetaken up studies of their family trees—their ancestors, families and kinships.
...WE “SHOULD NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT KINSHIP RELATIONS
AND KINSHIP CATEGORIES AREASCRIBED AT BIRTH.”
that began among Rice anthropologists
who stepped into the limelight to chal-
lenge the discipline’s traditional
research approach—ethnography
or fieldwork—with a post-modern
critique which maintained that the
researcher’s biases and outlooks are
inextricably linked to the research
process and the
research prod-
ucts. For his
part, Tyler
wrote a bold
essay that was
deeply skeptical
of the capacity
of language to accurately mirror the
world. In the essay, he questioned how
anthropologists went about studying
language. He argued that fieldwork
was neither as scientific nor as effective
a research method as had typically
been assumed, but instead involved
the outlooks and assumptions of the
investigators. This allowed Tyler to
focus his research on the
meaning of words in contemporary India.
In earlier work on language in Indian
kinships, Tyler understood that kinships
create normative rules of how words are
chosen and spoken.
At the time Tyler’s essay was published,
Faubion was a graduate student at the
University of California at Berkeley. He
read Tyler’s
essay as a call to
question the neat
divide between
the scientific and
the literary. That
challenge has
informed much
of his writing and research since his own
arrival at Rice in 1993. In his seminal
work on kinship, Faubion continues the
questioning begun by Tyler on the meaning
of kinship. He explores kinship as a social
system which has more to do with people
you associate with than your DNA. He argues
that we “should not take for granted that
kinship relations and kinship categories
are ascribed at birth.” Although
representing two different
generations of Rice anthropolo-
gists, Tyler’s and Faubion’s
post-modern research meth-
odology has revolutionized not
just the study of kinship but the
way all subjects in anthropology
are examined today.
o trace family roots, people
who once relied on the hazy
memory of Great Aunt Betsy
turn to computer databases
with the capacity to trace families
back for centuries. In everyday
terms, these kinships are typically
viewed as biological—how you are
related to family members in genera-
tions past and how far back you can
trace this lineage. Yet two luminary
Rice anthropologists have argued
that pivotal parts of kinship have
little or nothing to do with biology.
Stephen Tyler, the Herbert S. Autrey
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
and James Faubion, professor of
anthropology, writing in different
contexts, have asserted that kinship
is economics (you loan kin money
at no interest when you would never
dream of doing that with a stranger);
kinship is linguistic (you speak in
patterns with kin that you would
not use with others); and kinship
is normative (there is an overarching
code of behavior among kin
and either you do what
is expected or you may
find yourself deemed
the “black sheep.”)
This important work
on kinship is part of a
revolution in anthropology
T
10 11E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Kinship and a New Era in Anthropology
A N T H R O P O L O G Y
With the explosion of information available on the internet, many people havetaken up studies of their family trees—their ancestors, families and kinships.
...WE “SHOULD NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT KINSHIP RELATIONS
AND KINSHIP CATEGORIES AREASCRIBED AT BIRTH.”
that began among Rice anthropologists
who stepped into the limelight to chal-
lenge the discipline’s traditional
research approach—ethnography
or fieldwork—with a post-modern
critique which maintained that the
researcher’s biases and outlooks are
inextricably linked to the research
process and the
research prod-
ucts. For his
part, Tyler
wrote a bold
essay that was
deeply skeptical
of the capacity
of language to accurately mirror the
world. In the essay, he questioned how
anthropologists went about studying
language. He argued that fieldwork
was neither as scientific nor as effective
a research method as had typically
been assumed, but instead involved
the outlooks and assumptions of the
investigators. This allowed Tyler to
focus his research on the
meaning of words in contemporary India.
In earlier work on language in Indian
kinships, Tyler understood that kinships
create normative rules of how words are
chosen and spoken.
At the time Tyler’s essay was published,
Faubion was a graduate student at the
University of California at Berkeley. He
read Tyler’s
essay as a call to
question the neat
divide between
the scientific and
the literary. That
challenge has
informed much
of his writing and research since his own
arrival at Rice in 1993. In his seminal
work on kinship, Faubion continues the
questioning begun by Tyler on the meaning
of kinship. He explores kinship as a social
system which has more to do with people
you associate with than your DNA. He argues
that we “should not take for granted that
kinship relations and kinship categories
are ascribed at birth.” Although
representing two different
generations of Rice anthropolo-
gists, Tyler’s and Faubion’s
post-modern research meth-
odology has revolutionized not
just the study of kinship but the
way all subjects in anthropology
are examined today.
o trace family roots, people
who once relied on the hazy
memory of Great Aunt Betsy
turn to computer databases
with the capacity to trace families
back for centuries. In everyday
terms, these kinships are typically
viewed as biological—how you are
related to family members in genera-
tions past and how far back you can
trace this lineage. Yet two luminary
Rice anthropologists have argued
that pivotal parts of kinship have
little or nothing to do with biology.
Stephen Tyler, the Herbert S. Autrey
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
and James Faubion, professor of
anthropology, writing in different
contexts, have asserted that kinship
is economics (you loan kin money
at no interest when you would never
dream of doing that with a stranger);
kinship is linguistic (you speak in
patterns with kin that you would
not use with others); and kinship
is normative (there is an overarching
code of behavior among kin
and either you do what
is expected or you may
find yourself deemed
the “black sheep.”)
This important work
on kinship is part of a
revolution in anthropology
T
10 11E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
12 13E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
1960s 1970s 1980s-1990s 2000s 2010s
Professor James Pomerantz
delivers the 14th annual Irvin
Rock Memorial Lecture at
the University of
California,
Berkeley.
Lecturers are
chosen for the
excellence of their
research on visual
perception topics
related to perceptual
organization
and attention.
2010Professor James Dannemiller
is elected as an Association
for Psychological Science Fellow.
Fellow status is awarded to APS
members who make sustained
outstanding contributions to
the science of psychology in
the areas of research, teaching,
and/or application. He joins
Professors Randi Martin and
James Pomerantz with this honor.
2011Professor Randi Martin delivers
the Broadbent Keynote
Lecture at the 17th meeting
of the European Society for
Cognitive Psychology in
Donostia-San Sebastian,
Spain. This is a high honor
that recognizes her significant
and substantial contributions
to the understanding of
language processing and
working memory.
2012
Professor Fred Oswald is elected
as a fellow of the Society for
Industrial and Organizational
Psychology. Fellow status is
bestowed upon industrial and
organizational psychologists
who have made unusual and
outstanding contributions to
the field. He joins Professors
Mikki Hebl and Stephan
Motowidlo with this honor.
The Departmentof PsychologyCurrently the department has
14 full-time faculty members
and over 35 graduate students
who specialize in the fields of
industrial/organizational
psychology, human factors/
human-computer interaction,
cognitive psychology, systems
and cognitive neuroscience
and training. The faculty have
received numerous grants
and awards over the years,
including from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH),
National Science Foundation
(NSF), the Teagle foundation,
the Moody Foundation, the
Office of Naval Research,
NASA, the U.S. Navy, College
Board and ExxonMobil.
3rd
9E Y E O N P E O P L E
2001Professor Randi Martin is elected
as a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, the world's largest
federation of scientists, for
outstanding contributions to the
study of short-term memory
and language processing and
to the understanding of the brain
organization supporting these
cognitive functions.
2003Professor Mikki Hebl receives
Rice's highest teaching award,
the George R. Brown Prize for
Excellence in Teaching, which
she receives again in 2010.
Other Rice teaching awards she
has received: George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching
2002, 2004, 2005; Nicolas
Salgo Distinguished Teacher
Award 2000, 2008.
2006Professor Randi Martin is elected
to the Society of Experimental
Psychologists, making her one
of only two SEP members in
Texas. She joins Professor James
Pomerantz, who was elected
in 2001. Founded in 1904, the
society admits six members
per year from among the
leading experimentalists in
North America. Its mission is
“to advance psychology by
arranging informal conferences
on experimental psychology.”
2008Professor Mikki Hebl receives
the Charles W. Duncan
Achievement Award for
Outstanding Faculty as a
standout in teaching and
scholarship.
2009The Psychology Department
hosts the 2009 Southwest
Cognition Conference,
also known as ARMADILLO
(Association for Research
in Memory, Attention,
Decision making, Intelligence,
Language, Learning, and
Organization). The Department
had previously hosted
ARMADILLO in 1992 and 1998.
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
1963The Department of Psychology
is created with four full-time
faculty members and its first
department chair is Professor
Bert Kaplan.
Previously, it was
part of the Philosophy, Psychology
and Education Department.
Courses have been offered in
psychology since 1927.
1966The Psychology Department
awards its first Ph.D. to Blair
Justice, as part of an interde-
partmental Ethnopsychology
graduate program with the
Department of Anthropology
and Sociology. Justice is
currently professor emeritus
of psychology at the University
of Texas School of Public Health.
1967
Professor Trenton W. Wann is
awarded one of the first George
R. Brown Awards for Superior
Teaching. He receives it again in
1972 and 1973.
1984Professor William C. Howell
is elected as president of the
divisions of Experimental
Psychology and Engineering
Psychology of the American
Psychological Association.
1988Professor James Pomerantz is
appointed as dean of social
sciences and the Elma W. Schneider
Professor of Psychology.
1989Professor Sarah Burnett becomes
the first dean of students since 1974.
At the time, Burnett is only one
of two women deans at Rice. She
remains in the position until 1996.
1990The Rice chapter of
Psi Chi, the national
honor society
for psychology,
is installed.
The American
Psychological
Association honors
Dr. William C. Howell
posthumously with
the Raymond D.
Fowler Award for
Outstanding Member Contributions.
They also establish the William C.
Howell Scholarship in his memory.
The Psychology Department
establishes the Professor William C.
Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology
in his memory and dedicates the
William C. Howell Conference
Room in Sewall Hall.
2004The American Psychological
Association ranks the
Psychology Department's
industrial/organizational
program as 3rd in the
nation in productivity and
11th in the nation overall,
compared to other industrial/
organizational programs.
2005Professor Mikki Hebl presents
the commencement address
to Rice graduates at the
92nd commencement with
a speech titled “Class
Rings and Backpacks.” Hebl
welcomed this class when
they matriculated four years
earlier, in the 2001 Orientation
Week faculty address.
Professor James Pomerantz
is elected president of
the Foundation for the
Advancement of Behavioral
and Brain Sciences.
Professor Randi Martin is
named the first woman editor
of Journal of Experimental
Psychology:
Learning,
Memory, &
Cognition.
1970Professor William C. Howell
becomes chair of the department
and serves for 17 years, 1970-1987.
1971Cleveland Sewall Hall opens.
It houses the Psychology
Department, along with other
social sciences departments
and the fine arts program.
1972The Psychology Department
initiates its own Ph.D. program.
Three specialty areas in the
Ph.D. program are initially
established in 1976: cognitive-
experimental psychology,
industrial/organizational
psychology and social
psychology. Engineering
psychology is added in 1985.
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1960s 1970s 1980s-1990s 2000s 2010s
Professor James Pomerantz
delivers the 14th annual Irvin
Rock Memorial Lecture at
the University of
California,
Berkeley.
Lecturers are
chosen for the
excellence of their
research on visual
perception topics
related to perceptual
organization
and attention.
2010Professor James Dannemiller
is elected as an Association
for Psychological Science Fellow.
Fellow status is awarded to APS
members who make sustained
outstanding contributions to
the science of psychology in
the areas of research, teaching,
and/or application. He joins
Professors Randi Martin and
James Pomerantz with this honor.
2011Professor Randi Martin delivers
the Broadbent Keynote
Lecture at the 17th meeting
of the European Society for
Cognitive Psychology in
Donostia-San Sebastian,
Spain. This is a high honor
that recognizes her significant
and substantial contributions
to the understanding of
language processing and
working memory.
2012
Professor Fred Oswald is elected
as a fellow of the Society for
Industrial and Organizational
Psychology. Fellow status is
bestowed upon industrial and
organizational psychologists
who have made unusual and
outstanding contributions to
the field. He joins Professors
Mikki Hebl and Stephan
Motowidlo with this honor.
The Departmentof PsychologyCurrently the department has
14 full-time faculty members
and over 35 graduate students
who specialize in the fields of
industrial/organizational
psychology, human factors/
human-computer interaction,
cognitive psychology, systems
and cognitive neuroscience
and training. The faculty have
received numerous grants
and awards over the years,
including from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH),
National Science Foundation
(NSF), the Teagle foundation,
the Moody Foundation, the
Office of Naval Research,
NASA, the U.S. Navy, College
Board and ExxonMobil.
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2001Professor Randi Martin is elected
as a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, the world's largest
federation of scientists, for
outstanding contributions to the
study of short-term memory
and language processing and
to the understanding of the brain
organization supporting these
cognitive functions.
2003Professor Mikki Hebl receives
Rice's highest teaching award,
the George R. Brown Prize for
Excellence in Teaching, which
she receives again in 2010.
Other Rice teaching awards she
has received: George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching
2002, 2004, 2005; Nicolas
Salgo Distinguished Teacher
Award 2000, 2008.
2006Professor Randi Martin is elected
to the Society of Experimental
Psychologists, making her one
of only two SEP members in
Texas. She joins Professor James
Pomerantz, who was elected
in 2001. Founded in 1904, the
society admits six members
per year from among the
leading experimentalists in
North America. Its mission is
“to advance psychology by
arranging informal conferences
on experimental psychology.”
2008Professor Mikki Hebl receives
the Charles W. Duncan
Achievement Award for
Outstanding Faculty as a
standout in teaching and
scholarship.
2009The Psychology Department
hosts the 2009 Southwest
Cognition Conference,
also known as ARMADILLO
(Association for Research
in Memory, Attention,
Decision making, Intelligence,
Language, Learning, and
Organization). The Department
had previously hosted
ARMADILLO in 1992 and 1998.
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1963The Department of Psychology
is created with four full-time
faculty members and its first
department chair is Professor
Bert Kaplan.
Previously, it was
part of the Philosophy, Psychology
and Education Department.
Courses have been offered in
psychology since 1927.
1966The Psychology Department
awards its first Ph.D. to Blair
Justice, as part of an interde-
partmental Ethnopsychology
graduate program with the
Department of Anthropology
and Sociology. Justice is
currently professor emeritus
of psychology at the University
of Texas School of Public Health.
1967
Professor Trenton W. Wann is
awarded one of the first George
R. Brown Awards for Superior
Teaching. He receives it again in
1972 and 1973.
1984Professor William C. Howell
is elected as president of the
divisions of Experimental
Psychology and Engineering
Psychology of the American
Psychological Association.
1988Professor James Pomerantz is
appointed as dean of social
sciences and the Elma W. Schneider
Professor of Psychology.
1989Professor Sarah Burnett becomes
the first dean of students since 1974.
At the time, Burnett is only one
of two women deans at Rice. She
remains in the position until 1996.
1990The Rice chapter of
Psi Chi, the national
honor society
for psychology,
is installed.
The American
Psychological
Association honors
Dr. William C. Howell
posthumously with
the Raymond D.
Fowler Award for
Outstanding Member Contributions.
They also establish the William C.
Howell Scholarship in his memory.
The Psychology Department
establishes the Professor William C.
Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology
in his memory and dedicates the
William C. Howell Conference
Room in Sewall Hall.
2004The American Psychological
Association ranks the
Psychology Department's
industrial/organizational
program as 3rd in the
nation in productivity and
11th in the nation overall,
compared to other industrial/
organizational programs.
2005Professor Mikki Hebl presents
the commencement address
to Rice graduates at the
92nd commencement with
a speech titled “Class
Rings and Backpacks.” Hebl
welcomed this class when
they matriculated four years
earlier, in the 2001 Orientation
Week faculty address.
Professor James Pomerantz
is elected president of
the Foundation for the
Advancement of Behavioral
and Brain Sciences.
Professor Randi Martin is
named the first woman editor
of Journal of Experimental
Psychology:
Learning,
Memory, &
Cognition.
1970Professor William C. Howell
becomes chair of the department
and serves for 17 years, 1970-1987.
1971Cleveland Sewall Hall opens.
It houses the Psychology
Department, along with other
social sciences departments
and the fine arts program.
1972The Psychology Department
initiates its own Ph.D. program.
Three specialty areas in the
Ph.D. program are initially
established in 1976: cognitive-
experimental psychology,
industrial/organizational
psychology and social
psychology. Engineering
psychology is added in 1985.
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P S Y C H O L O G Y
individualized approaches that focused on the specific task,
goal and decision-maker were much more successful.
Coming to Rice thirty-one years after Howell, Michael
Byrne, professor of psychology, focuses his work in human
factors research on the growing interdependence of human
decisions and computers. While computers were new,
large and housed in remote sites in Howell’s day, they are
ubiquitous and a part of all aspects
of life as Byrne conducts his
research. While Howell devised
training manuals and processes,
Byrne devises sophisticated
computer models of how to
make the best possible decisions.
In breakthrough research, he
maintains that human error is not necessarily “a property
of the human,” but is a combination of cognitive limitations
and environmental factors. In a recent study, Byrne found
that the best way to resolve airport taxiway errors is to adopt
two simple heuristics—make turns toward the gate or turn
in the direction that minimizes the distance between the
plane’s current location and the gates.
Together, Howell and Byrne anchor over three decades of
research at Rice on human factors. While human mistakes
will never be eliminated, they can be analyzed and minimized.
ome are minor—locking yourself out of the house or
forgetting to pay a bill. But some are major—human
error is responsible for airplane crashes, friendly-
fire on the combat field, fatal surgical choices in the
operating room and life-threatening accidents in the
workplace. The notoriety of making mistakes is balanced
with the promise of learning from them. And psychologists
at Rice have helped people learn a
great deal about human errors and
how to avoid them in military,
corporate and government settings.
William C. Howell, who arrived
at Rice in 1968 and was chair of the
Psychology Department for 17 years,
was an early leader in the field of
human factors, which applies principles of psychology to
design products and work environments that boost produc-
tivity and minimize safety issues. For instance, during the
Persian Gulf War, Howell’s lab worked with the U.S. Air Force
to develop procedures to calibrate night-vision goggles
because pilots had previously not known how to calibrate
them to work as well as they could. More broadly, Howell
worked to devise methods of training people to make effective
decisions. He learned that general principles of decision
making were ineffective in ensuring successful outcomes, but
S
TOGETHER, HOWELL AND BYRNE ANCHOR OVER THREEDECADES OF RESEARCH AT RICE ON HUMAN FACTORS.WHILE HUMAN MISTAKES WILL NEVER BE ELIMINATED,THEY CAN BE ANALYZED AND MINIMIZED.Human Error is Not
Just about HumansGeorge Bernard Shaw observed that “a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” People are notorious for making mistakes.
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P S Y C H O L O G Y
individualized approaches that focused on the specific task,
goal and decision-maker were much more successful.
Coming to Rice thirty-one years after Howell, Michael
Byrne, professor of psychology, focuses his work in human
factors research on the growing interdependence of human
decisions and computers. While computers were new,
large and housed in remote sites in Howell’s day, they are
ubiquitous and a part of all aspects
of life as Byrne conducts his
research. While Howell devised
training manuals and processes,
Byrne devises sophisticated
computer models of how to
make the best possible decisions.
In breakthrough research, he
maintains that human error is not necessarily “a property
of the human,” but is a combination of cognitive limitations
and environmental factors. In a recent study, Byrne found
that the best way to resolve airport taxiway errors is to adopt
two simple heuristics—make turns toward the gate or turn
in the direction that minimizes the distance between the
plane’s current location and the gates.
Together, Howell and Byrne anchor over three decades of
research at Rice on human factors. While human mistakes
will never be eliminated, they can be analyzed and minimized.
ome are minor—locking yourself out of the house or
forgetting to pay a bill. But some are major—human
error is responsible for airplane crashes, friendly-
fire on the combat field, fatal surgical choices in the
operating room and life-threatening accidents in the
workplace. The notoriety of making mistakes is balanced
with the promise of learning from them. And psychologists
at Rice have helped people learn a
great deal about human errors and
how to avoid them in military,
corporate and government settings.
William C. Howell, who arrived
at Rice in 1968 and was chair of the
Psychology Department for 17 years,
was an early leader in the field of
human factors, which applies principles of psychology to
design products and work environments that boost produc-
tivity and minimize safety issues. For instance, during the
Persian Gulf War, Howell’s lab worked with the U.S. Air Force
to develop procedures to calibrate night-vision goggles
because pilots had previously not known how to calibrate
them to work as well as they could. More broadly, Howell
worked to devise methods of training people to make effective
decisions. He learned that general principles of decision
making were ineffective in ensuring successful outcomes, but
S
TOGETHER, HOWELL AND BYRNE ANCHOR OVER THREEDECADES OF RESEARCH AT RICE ON HUMAN FACTORS.WHILE HUMAN MISTAKES WILL NEVER BE ELIMINATED,THEY CAN BE ANALYZED AND MINIMIZED.Human Error is Not
Just about HumansGeorge Bernard Shaw observed that “a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” People are notorious for making mistakes.
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F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
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F I R S T
F I R S T
1990Professor Richard Stoll receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence
in Teaching
1990. Other
university
teaching
awards he
has received:
George R.
Brown Award for Superior
Teaching 1987, 1988, 1995, 2000,
2006; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished
Teacher Award 1982.
1991Professor Robert Stein receives a
special book award from the Urban
Politics and
Policy section
of the American
Political Science
Association
(APSA) for
his book Urban
Alternatives: Public and
Private Markets in the Provision
of Local Services.
The Clarence L. Carter
Professorship is established.
Professor
Paul Brace
holds the
first chair.
1992Professor Earl Black receives an
award for best book in government
and political science from the
Professional
and Scholarly
Publishing
Division of the
Association
of American
Publishers for
his book with co-author Merle
Black, The Vital South: How
Presidents are Elected.
1993Professor Gilbert Cuthbertson,
the longest serving faculty
member in the Social Sciences,
is awarded the George R. Brown
Certificate of Highest Merit.
The award is given to professors
only once in their careers at
Rice, signifying a level of
teaching excellence so high
over the years that they are
retired from the competition
for the George R. Brown awards.
Other university teaching awards
he has received: George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in Teaching
1977, 1993; George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching
1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1990.
Professor Paul Brace receives
a Richard E. Neustadt Award
from the American Political
Science Association (APSA)
for his
book with
co-author
Barbara
Hinkley,
Follow
the Leader:
Opinion Polls and the Modern
Presidents.
1994Professor John Ambler receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence in Teaching. Other
university
teaching
awards
he has
received:
George
R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching 1993,
1996, 1997, 2001.
1964A major is first offered in
political science.
1965The Albert Thomas Chair of
Political Science is established
with a $500,000 gift from the
Brown Foundation —honoring
U. S. Congressman Albert Thomas
of Houston. The gift, creating
the first endowed professorship
in political science, makes it
possible for Rice to bring an
eminent political science scholar
to campus. Professor Fred von
der Mehden holds the first chair.
1967The Department of Political
Science is created with six
full-time faculty members and
its first department chair is
Professor Joseph Cooper. Prior
to 1967, political science was
part of the History department.
1970The Ph.D program, offering the
three fields of comparative
politics, American politics and
international relations, is
inaugurated with an entering
class of five.
1974The first Ph.D. in Political
Science is awarded to Kim
Quaile Hill. Hill is currently
the Cullen-
McFadden
Professor
of Political
Science
and an
Eppright
Professor in Undergraduate
Teaching Excellence at Texas
A&M University.
1978The Lena Gohlman Fox Endowed
Chair in Political Science is
established. Professor Joseph
Cooper holds its first chair.
1979Professor Joseph Cooper is
appointed as the first dean
of social sciences. Besides
having been the first chair of
the Department of Political
Science, 1967-1972, he served
as acting provost, 1973-1974.
1981The Rice Institute for Policy
Analysis is formed to study
public policy. It becomes part
of the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy in 1993.
The Thomas Cooke & Mary
Elizabeth Edwards Chair in
American Government and
Democracy
is estab-
lished.
In 2005,
Professor
Keith Hamm
becomes
the first chair holder.
1987Professor Robert Stein receives the
George R.
Brown Award
for Superior
Teaching. He
receives it
again in 1998.
1988Professor Earl Black receives a
Ralph J. Bunche Award from the
American
Political
Science
Association
(APSA) and
a V.O. Key
Book Award
from the Southern Political
Science Association for his book
with co-author Merle Black,
Politics and Society in the South.
TOP20
2012Professor Lanny Martin
receives the Fenno Prize for
the best
book on
legislative
politics
published
in 2011
from the
American Political Science
Association (APSA) for his
book with co-author Georg
Vanberg, Parliaments and
Coalitions: The Role of
Legislative Institutions in
Multiparty Governance.
The Department of PoliticalScienceCurrently the department has
17 full-time faculty members
and over 30 graduate students
specializing in the fields of
American politics, comparative
politics and international
relations. Over the years,
faculty have received numerous
research grants from the
National Science Foundation
(NSF) including a CAREER
grant and the Pew Foundation.
They have also received
several fellowships from
organizations such as the
Hoover Institution, the
Russell Sage Foundation
and the Rockefeller
Foundation's Bellagio Center.
F I R S T
The department establishes the
Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter of Pi Sigma
Alpha, the National Political Science
Honor Society. Thirty-seven charter
members are initiated.
2010Rice’s Political Science Department
is ranked among the top 20
political science departments by
the National Research Council.
Professor Randolph Stevenson
receives the Gregory Luebbert
Prize for the
best book in
comparative
politics
from the
Comparative
Politics
section of the American Political
ScienceAssociation (APSA)
for his book with co-author
Raymond Duch, The Economic
Vote: How Political and
Economic Institutions Condition
Election Results.
Lyn Ragsdale, the Radoslav
A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs
and dean
of social
sciences,
is awarded
the Richard
E.Neustadt
Award from
the American Political Science
Association (APSA) for her book
Vital Statistics on the American
Presidency.
1996Professor Robert Stein is
appointed as the dean of
social sciences.
Professor Cliff Morgan receives
the Best Book Award for best book
on conflict processes and peace
studies from
the Conflict
Processes
section of
the American
Political
Science
Association (APSA) for his
book Untying the Knot of
War: A Bargaining Theory
of International Crises.
2000Professor
Rick K.
Wilson
opens the
Behavioral
Research
Lab (BRL).
The BRL facilitates faculty and
student research on individual and
group decision making.
Professor Melissa Marschall
receives the Policy Studies
Organization’s
Aaron Wildavsky
Award for
her book with
co-authors
Mark Schneider
and Paul Teske,
Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice
and the Quality of American Schools.
2003Professor Earl Black receives a
V. O. Key Award from the Southern
Political Science
Association for
his book with
co-author Merle
Black,The Rise
of Southern
Republicans.
2006Political scientist Lyn Ragsdale is
appointed
the first
woman
dean of
social
sciences
and the
Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of
Public Affairs.
2007The Harlan Program in State
Elections, Campaigns and
Politics is founded with a $1.3
million gift by Douglas S. Harlan
‘64. The program is directed
by Professor Keith Hamm.
Professor Ashley Leeds receives the
Charles W. Duncan Achievement
Award for Outstanding Faculty
as a standout in both the areas of
teaching and scholarship.
2008Professor Ashley Leeds receives
the Karl Deutsch Award. The award
is presented annually by the
International Studies Association
to a scholar
who is judged
to have made
the most
significant
contribution
to the study
of international relations and peace
research. Professor Cliff Morgan
received the award in 1994.
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
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F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S TF I R S T
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F I R S T
F I R S T
1990Professor Richard Stoll receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence
in Teaching
1990. Other
university
teaching
awards he
has received:
George R.
Brown Award for Superior
Teaching 1987, 1988, 1995, 2000,
2006; Nicolas Salgo Distinguished
Teacher Award 1982.
1991Professor Robert Stein receives a
special book award from the Urban
Politics and
Policy section
of the American
Political Science
Association
(APSA) for
his book Urban
Alternatives: Public and
Private Markets in the Provision
of Local Services.
The Clarence L. Carter
Professorship is established.
Professor
Paul Brace
holds the
first chair.
1992Professor Earl Black receives an
award for best book in government
and political science from the
Professional
and Scholarly
Publishing
Division of the
Association
of American
Publishers for
his book with co-author Merle
Black, The Vital South: How
Presidents are Elected.
1993Professor Gilbert Cuthbertson,
the longest serving faculty
member in the Social Sciences,
is awarded the George R. Brown
Certificate of Highest Merit.
The award is given to professors
only once in their careers at
Rice, signifying a level of
teaching excellence so high
over the years that they are
retired from the competition
for the George R. Brown awards.
Other university teaching awards
he has received: George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in Teaching
1977, 1993; George R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching
1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1990.
Professor Paul Brace receives
a Richard E. Neustadt Award
from the American Political
Science Association (APSA)
for his
book with
co-author
Barbara
Hinkley,
Follow
the Leader:
Opinion Polls and the Modern
Presidents.
1994Professor John Ambler receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence in Teaching. Other
university
teaching
awards
he has
received:
George
R. Brown
Award for Superior Teaching 1993,
1996, 1997, 2001.
1964A major is first offered in
political science.
1965The Albert Thomas Chair of
Political Science is established
with a $500,000 gift from the
Brown Foundation —honoring
U. S. Congressman Albert Thomas
of Houston. The gift, creating
the first endowed professorship
in political science, makes it
possible for Rice to bring an
eminent political science scholar
to campus. Professor Fred von
der Mehden holds the first chair.
1967The Department of Political
Science is created with six
full-time faculty members and
its first department chair is
Professor Joseph Cooper. Prior
to 1967, political science was
part of the History department.
1970The Ph.D program, offering the
three fields of comparative
politics, American politics and
international relations, is
inaugurated with an entering
class of five.
1974The first Ph.D. in Political
Science is awarded to Kim
Quaile Hill. Hill is currently
the Cullen-
McFadden
Professor
of Political
Science
and an
Eppright
Professor in Undergraduate
Teaching Excellence at Texas
A&M University.
1978The Lena Gohlman Fox Endowed
Chair in Political Science is
established. Professor Joseph
Cooper holds its first chair.
1979Professor Joseph Cooper is
appointed as the first dean
of social sciences. Besides
having been the first chair of
the Department of Political
Science, 1967-1972, he served
as acting provost, 1973-1974.
1981The Rice Institute for Policy
Analysis is formed to study
public policy. It becomes part
of the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy in 1993.
The Thomas Cooke & Mary
Elizabeth Edwards Chair in
American Government and
Democracy
is estab-
lished.
In 2005,
Professor
Keith Hamm
becomes
the first chair holder.
1987Professor Robert Stein receives the
George R.
Brown Award
for Superior
Teaching. He
receives it
again in 1998.
1988Professor Earl Black receives a
Ralph J. Bunche Award from the
American
Political
Science
Association
(APSA) and
a V.O. Key
Book Award
from the Southern Political
Science Association for his book
with co-author Merle Black,
Politics and Society in the South.
TOP20
2012Professor Lanny Martin
receives the Fenno Prize for
the best
book on
legislative
politics
published
in 2011
from the
American Political Science
Association (APSA) for his
book with co-author Georg
Vanberg, Parliaments and
Coalitions: The Role of
Legislative Institutions in
Multiparty Governance.
The Department of PoliticalScienceCurrently the department has
17 full-time faculty members
and over 30 graduate students
specializing in the fields of
American politics, comparative
politics and international
relations. Over the years,
faculty have received numerous
research grants from the
National Science Foundation
(NSF) including a CAREER
grant and the Pew Foundation.
They have also received
several fellowships from
organizations such as the
Hoover Institution, the
Russell Sage Foundation
and the Rockefeller
Foundation's Bellagio Center.
F I R S T
The department establishes the
Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter of Pi Sigma
Alpha, the National Political Science
Honor Society. Thirty-seven charter
members are initiated.
2010Rice’s Political Science Department
is ranked among the top 20
political science departments by
the National Research Council.
Professor Randolph Stevenson
receives the Gregory Luebbert
Prize for the
best book in
comparative
politics
from the
Comparative
Politics
section of the American Political
ScienceAssociation (APSA)
for his book with co-author
Raymond Duch, The Economic
Vote: How Political and
Economic Institutions Condition
Election Results.
Lyn Ragsdale, the Radoslav
A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs
and dean
of social
sciences,
is awarded
the Richard
E.Neustadt
Award from
the American Political Science
Association (APSA) for her book
Vital Statistics on the American
Presidency.
1996Professor Robert Stein is
appointed as the dean of
social sciences.
Professor Cliff Morgan receives
the Best Book Award for best book
on conflict processes and peace
studies from
the Conflict
Processes
section of
the American
Political
Science
Association (APSA) for his
book Untying the Knot of
War: A Bargaining Theory
of International Crises.
2000Professor
Rick K.
Wilson
opens the
Behavioral
Research
Lab (BRL).
The BRL facilitates faculty and
student research on individual and
group decision making.
Professor Melissa Marschall
receives the Policy Studies
Organization’s
Aaron Wildavsky
Award for
her book with
co-authors
Mark Schneider
and Paul Teske,
Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice
and the Quality of American Schools.
2003Professor Earl Black receives a
V. O. Key Award from the Southern
Political Science
Association for
his book with
co-author Merle
Black,The Rise
of Southern
Republicans.
2006Political scientist Lyn Ragsdale is
appointed
the first
woman
dean of
social
sciences
and the
Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of
Public Affairs.
2007The Harlan Program in State
Elections, Campaigns and
Politics is founded with a $1.3
million gift by Douglas S. Harlan
‘64. The program is directed
by Professor Keith Hamm.
Professor Ashley Leeds receives the
Charles W. Duncan Achievement
Award for Outstanding Faculty
as a standout in both the areas of
teaching and scholarship.
2008Professor Ashley Leeds receives
the Karl Deutsch Award. The award
is presented annually by the
International Studies Association
to a scholar
who is judged
to have made
the most
significant
contribution
to the study
of international relations and peace
research. Professor Cliff Morgan
received the award in 1994.
TOGETHER AMBLER AND JONES HAVE SHOWN THE CHALLENGES THAT OCCUR IN
PASSING NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN PRESIDENTIAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.
WHILE AMERICANS OFTEN THINK THAT THE U.S.FACES UNIQUE DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING
LEGISLATION PASSED IN OUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM, THERE IS IN FACT NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT
THESE PROBLEMS AT ALL.
Many Americans believe that the United States is unique in its adoption of presidential government, as numerous presidents have struggled to get what they want out of an independent and often cantankerous Congress.
Who Gets What Passed inPresidential Democracies?
P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
stakes, both large and small, the government, no matter how many
seats it holds, may be unable to make wholesale changes.
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American
Studies, who joined the Rice political science faculty in 2004, is a
leading expert on the politics of Latin America, particularly in the
effect of electoral laws and other institutions on governance,
representation and voting. In one line of research, Jones has
documented how presidential
government unfolds in Argentina
and has uncovered that provincial
party bosses, notably provincial gov-
ernors, are the key to facilitating
the passage of legislation
sought by the Argentine
president in the Chamber of
Deputies. Unlike the situation that Ambler saw in France,
this mid-level, regional locus of power in Argentina
permits greater coordination of policy from the
national government, led by the president, to
local concerns. The governors have direct
access to the president and so provide the presi-
dent a set of eyes and ears about what will and
will not “sell” at the local and regional levels.
Together Ambler and Jones have
shown the challenges that occur in
passing national legislation in
presidential forms of government.
While Americans often think that
the U.S. faces unique difficulties
in getting legislation passed in our
own presidential system, there
is in fact nothing exceptional
about these problems at all.
residential government is a form of government
which expressly separates the election for president
from the election of the legislature and differs
from parliamentary government, in which the
executive is chosen from within the legislature. Yet, many
countries besides the U.S. have presidential governments
and face the inherent challenges of separating the business
of the executive from the business
of the legislature. Political
scientists at Rice have examined
presidential governments in
Europe and Latin America.
John Ambler, one of the
founding members of the Political
Science Department, who arrived
at Rice in 1964, spent his career studying European political
institutions, most notably the French political system and its
relationship to the French education system. Ambler offered
a compelling assessment of the difficulties newly-elected
French presidents have in reforming key, long-standing
education policies and practices. This was
especially ironic in 1981, when Francois
Mitterand won the presidency of France
with a majority of seats in the French
Parliament. Under the rules of party
government, the new president should
have had the votes sufficient to pass
education reform. Instead, Ambler
documented the difficulties Mitterand
and the Socialist Party in parliament
confronted when attempting to adopt even
modest changes. Ambler suggested that in
policy areas where numerous people have various
P
18 19E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
TOGETHER AMBLER AND JONES HAVE SHOWN THE CHALLENGES THAT OCCUR IN
PASSING NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN PRESIDENTIAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.
WHILE AMERICANS OFTEN THINK THAT THE U.S.FACES UNIQUE DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING
LEGISLATION PASSED IN OUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM, THERE IS IN FACT NOTHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT
THESE PROBLEMS AT ALL.
Many Americans believe that the United States is unique in its adoption of presidential government, as numerous presidents have struggled to get what they want out of an independent and often cantankerous Congress.
Who Gets What Passed inPresidential Democracies?
P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E
stakes, both large and small, the government, no matter how many
seats it holds, may be unable to make wholesale changes.
Mark Jones, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American
Studies, who joined the Rice political science faculty in 2004, is a
leading expert on the politics of Latin America, particularly in the
effect of electoral laws and other institutions on governance,
representation and voting. In one line of research, Jones has
documented how presidential
government unfolds in Argentina
and has uncovered that provincial
party bosses, notably provincial gov-
ernors, are the key to facilitating
the passage of legislation
sought by the Argentine
president in the Chamber of
Deputies. Unlike the situation that Ambler saw in France,
this mid-level, regional locus of power in Argentina
permits greater coordination of policy from the
national government, led by the president, to
local concerns. The governors have direct
access to the president and so provide the presi-
dent a set of eyes and ears about what will and
will not “sell” at the local and regional levels.
Together Ambler and Jones have
shown the challenges that occur in
passing national legislation in
presidential forms of government.
While Americans often think that
the U.S. faces unique difficulties
in getting legislation passed in our
own presidential system, there
is in fact nothing exceptional
about these problems at all.
residential government is a form of government
which expressly separates the election for president
from the election of the legislature and differs
from parliamentary government, in which the
executive is chosen from within the legislature. Yet, many
countries besides the U.S. have presidential governments
and face the inherent challenges of separating the business
of the executive from the business
of the legislature. Political
scientists at Rice have examined
presidential governments in
Europe and Latin America.
John Ambler, one of the
founding members of the Political
Science Department, who arrived
at Rice in 1964, spent his career studying European political
institutions, most notably the French political system and its
relationship to the French education system. Ambler offered
a compelling assessment of the difficulties newly-elected
French presidents have in reforming key, long-standing
education policies and practices. This was
especially ironic in 1981, when Francois
Mitterand won the presidency of France
with a majority of seats in the French
Parliament. Under the rules of party
government, the new president should
have had the votes sufficient to pass
education reform. Instead, Ambler
documented the difficulties Mitterand
and the Socialist Party in parliament
confronted when attempting to adopt even
modest changes. Ambler suggested that in
policy areas where numerous people have various
P
18 19E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
1950s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
1992Professor William Martin receives
the Critic's Choice Award for best
book in the History/Biography
category from
Christianity
Today for his
book A Prophet
With Honor: The
Billy Graham
Story. The book
is also voted as one of the “Ten Best
Biographies of Religious Figures
in the 20th Century” by Christian
Reader Magazine in 2000.
1996Professor William Martin writes
the book With God on Our Side:
The Rise of the Religious Right
in America.
Published as
the companion
to the award
winning PBS
series of the
same name for
which he was chief consultant,
the book documents Christian
fundamentalism in the last 50
years and how it has shaped public
policy. Revised editions of both
the book and the video series
appear in the summer of 2005.
1998Professor Chandler Davidson
receives
the George
R. Brown
Award for
Excellence
in Teaching.
Other
university teaching awards
he has received: George
R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching
1999, 2000,
2002.
Professor Bridget Gorman
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Other university teaching awards
she has
received:
George R.
Brown
Award for
Superior
Teaching
2009, 2012; Nicolas Salgo
Distinguished Teacher Award
2007.
Professor Michael Lindsay
receives the Outstanding
Book Award
from the
Association
for Research
on Nonprofit
Organizations
and Voluntary
Action for his book Faith in
the Halls of Power: How
Evangelicals Joined the
American Elite. In addition,
the book receives the
Christianity Today Book
Award in the Christianity and
Culture category and is
named “Best Book of 2007”
by Publishers Weekly.
2010The Hobby Center for the Study
of Texas is formed. The center
seeks to advance understanding
of the causes and consequences
of demo-
graphic,
economic,
geographic,
social and
environ-
mental
conditions impacting the current
conditions in, and future of,
Texas and other areas in the
nation and is directed by
Professor Steve Murdock.
The Kinder Institute for Urban
Research is established with
a $15 million gift to Rice
from the Kinder Foundation.
The institute provides a
permanent home to the Kinder
Houston Area Survey and
conducts research that advances
the understanding of pressing
urban issues and fosters the
development of more humane
and sustainable cities. Professors
Stephen Klineberg and Michael
Emerson are co-directors.
The Religion and Public Life
program is created. The program
works to provide institutions,
social groups and individuals
with religious scholarship and an
academic environment that is
conducive
to positive
dialogue
about the
role of
religion in
our lives
today. Professor Elaine Howard
Ecklund is the director.
The Race
Scholars
program is
created.
The program
is dedicated
to advancing
the intellectual community of
scholars and
students whose
work examines
the relevance
of race in all
its dimensions.
Professor
Jenifer Bratter
is the director.
2011The Houston Education Research
Consortium is established with
a $1.3 million gift from the Laura
and John Arnold Foundation.
The aim of the consortium is
to close
socio-
economic
achievement
gaps in
Houston
elementary
and secondary education.
Professor Ruth López Turley is
the director.
The Urban Health Program is
launched. The program is dedicated
to fostering community and
academic partnerships surround-
ing issues of health, health
care, education and community
planning by highlighting how
urban areas
can create
barriers
as well as
opportuni-
ties for
the health
of their
citizens.
Professor
Rachel
Kimbro
is the
director
and Professor Justin Denney is
the associate director.
Professor
Michael
Lindsay
receives
the Nicolas
Salgo
Distinguished Teacher Award.
2012The film "Interesting Times"
is released. The film features
Professor Stephen Klineberg and
provides a vivid depiction of the
findings from 30 years of system-
atic research tracking the economic
and demographic transformations
of the Houston region.
The Department of SociologyCurrently, the department has 12
full-time faculty members who
specialize in race and ethnic
stratification, gender, religion,
health and demographic change.
The faculty have received
numerous grants and fellowships
over the years, including from
the Houston Endowment, the
John Templeton Foundation,
the Templeton World Charity
Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation,
Foundation for Child Development
Young Scholars Program, the
Lilly Endowment, the National
Science Foundation (NSF), the
Meadows Foundation, the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the
Greater Texas Foundation, the
Russell Sage Foundation and
UT Health Science Center.
20 21E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S TF I R S T
1950Sociology is housed in the
Department of Business
Administration and Economics.
1960The Department of Anthopology
and Sociology is created.
1962The Lena Gohlman Fox Chair in
Sociology is established under a
bequest by
Mamie Fox
Twyman Martel
in honor of her
late mother.
Professor
William McCord
holds the first chair. Initially, it
was used to fund Visiting Professor
Hugh Duncan.
1970The Department of Sociology
separates from the Department
of Anthropology. The separation
agreement
is formalized
in 1971. At
the time, the
department
has four full-
time faculty
members and its first department
chair is Professor Chad Gordon.
1978Walter G. Hall '28 gives East Texas
timber land to Rice with the instruc-
tions that the proceeds from the sale
of the land be divided between the
Department of Sociology and the
Jones School of Business. The Walter
G. Hall Endowment in Sociology is
established in 1985 with the sale of
the land "in the hope
that it will contribute
to a better understand-
ing of the increasingly
complex nature of
our society.”
1982Professor Stephen Klineberg
conducts the
first Kinder
Houston Area
Survey as an
undergradu-
ate class
assignment
on a budget of $3,000. The survey
is the nation's longest running
study for a single metropolitan
area's changing demographics
and public attitudes.
The Walter and Helen Hall Lecture
Series is founded. Through the
years it has brought to Rice
prominent scholars and public
figures, including H. Ross Perot,
Molly Ivins, James Q. Wilson,
William Julius Wilson, and the late
U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.
1986Professor William Martin receives
one of the first George R. Brown
Certificates of Highest Merit
Award. The
award
is given to
professors
only once
in their
careers at
Rice, signifying a level of teaching
excellence so high over the
years that they are retired from
the competition for the George R.
Brown awards. Other university
teaching awards he has received:
George R. Brown Award for
Excellence in Teaching 1975,
1982; George R. Brown Award
for Superior Teaching 1974,
1976, 1977, 1984; Nicolas Salgo
Distinguished Teacher award
1971, 1993.
2006Professor Michael Emerson
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
Other
university
teaching
awards
he has
received:
George R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching 2003, 2007,
2008; Sarah A. Burnett Teaching
Prize 2012.
2007Professor Michael Emerson
receives the Oliver Cromwell
Cox Award from the American
Sociological Association,
Racial and
Ethnic
Minorities
Section for
his book
People of
the Dream:
Multiracial Congregations
in the United States.
2008A $6.4 million gift from the Houston
Endowment to Rice University is
given to fund the establishment
of the first Ph.D. program in
sociology in Houston. The first
class is admitted in fall of 2011.
Professor Stephen Klineberg
is awarded the George R.Brown
Certificate
of Highest
Merit.
Other
university
teaching
awards he
received: George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in
Teaching 1996; George R.
Brown Award for Superior
Teaching 1981, 1982, 1984,
1991, 1997, 2005, 2008.
2000Professor Elizabeth Long receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence
in Teaching.
Other univer-
sity teaching
awards she
has received:
George R.
Brown Award for Superior Teaching
1993, 1994, 1997, 2004.
2001The Department of Sociology initiates
a postdoctoral fellowship program.
Professor Michael Emerson receives
the Distinguished Book Award from
the Society
for the
Scientific
Study of
Religion
for his book
Divided by
Faith: Evangelical Religion and
the Problem of Race in America.
2004Professor Elizabeth Long receives
an award
from the
American
Sociological
Association,
Culture
Section for
Book Clubs: Women and the Uses
of Reading in Everyday Life.
2005Professor Chandler Davidson is
chosen as one of eight members
of the National Commission on
the Voting Rights Act. The primary
author of the Commission's
report, Davidson also
testified before the
U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee on the
subject in 2006.
1950s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
1992Professor William Martin receives
the Critic's Choice Award for best
book in the History/Biography
category from
Christianity
Today for his
book A Prophet
With Honor: The
Billy Graham
Story. The book
is also voted as one of the “Ten Best
Biographies of Religious Figures
in the 20th Century” by Christian
Reader Magazine in 2000.
1996Professor William Martin writes
the book With God on Our Side:
The Rise of the Religious Right
in America.
Published as
the companion
to the award
winning PBS
series of the
same name for
which he was chief consultant,
the book documents Christian
fundamentalism in the last 50
years and how it has shaped public
policy. Revised editions of both
the book and the video series
appear in the summer of 2005.
1998Professor Chandler Davidson
receives
the George
R. Brown
Award for
Excellence
in Teaching.
Other
university teaching awards
he has received: George
R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching
1999, 2000,
2002.
Professor Bridget Gorman
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Other university teaching awards
she has
received:
George R.
Brown
Award for
Superior
Teaching
2009, 2012; Nicolas Salgo
Distinguished Teacher Award
2007.
Professor Michael Lindsay
receives the Outstanding
Book Award
from the
Association
for Research
on Nonprofit
Organizations
and Voluntary
Action for his book Faith in
the Halls of Power: How
Evangelicals Joined the
American Elite. In addition,
the book receives the
Christianity Today Book
Award in the Christianity and
Culture category and is
named “Best Book of 2007”
by Publishers Weekly.
2010The Hobby Center for the Study
of Texas is formed. The center
seeks to advance understanding
of the causes and consequences
of demo-
graphic,
economic,
geographic,
social and
environ-
mental
conditions impacting the current
conditions in, and future of,
Texas and other areas in the
nation and is directed by
Professor Steve Murdock.
The Kinder Institute for Urban
Research is established with
a $15 million gift to Rice
from the Kinder Foundation.
The institute provides a
permanent home to the Kinder
Houston Area Survey and
conducts research that advances
the understanding of pressing
urban issues and fosters the
development of more humane
and sustainable cities. Professors
Stephen Klineberg and Michael
Emerson are co-directors.
The Religion and Public Life
program is created. The program
works to provide institutions,
social groups and individuals
with religious scholarship and an
academic environment that is
conducive
to positive
dialogue
about the
role of
religion in
our lives
today. Professor Elaine Howard
Ecklund is the director.
The Race
Scholars
program is
created.
The program
is dedicated
to advancing
the intellectual community of
scholars and
students whose
work examines
the relevance
of race in all
its dimensions.
Professor
Jenifer Bratter
is the director.
2011The Houston Education Research
Consortium is established with
a $1.3 million gift from the Laura
and John Arnold Foundation.
The aim of the consortium is
to close
socio-
economic
achievement
gaps in
Houston
elementary
and secondary education.
Professor Ruth López Turley is
the director.
The Urban Health Program is
launched. The program is dedicated
to fostering community and
academic partnerships surround-
ing issues of health, health
care, education and community
planning by highlighting how
urban areas
can create
barriers
as well as
opportuni-
ties for
the health
of their
citizens.
Professor
Rachel
Kimbro
is the
director
and Professor Justin Denney is
the associate director.
Professor
Michael
Lindsay
receives
the Nicolas
Salgo
Distinguished Teacher Award.
2012The film "Interesting Times"
is released. The film features
Professor Stephen Klineberg and
provides a vivid depiction of the
findings from 30 years of system-
atic research tracking the economic
and demographic transformations
of the Houston region.
The Department of SociologyCurrently, the department has 12
full-time faculty members who
specialize in race and ethnic
stratification, gender, religion,
health and demographic change.
The faculty have received
numerous grants and fellowships
over the years, including from
the Houston Endowment, the
John Templeton Foundation,
the Templeton World Charity
Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation,
Foundation for Child Development
Young Scholars Program, the
Lilly Endowment, the National
Science Foundation (NSF), the
Meadows Foundation, the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the
Greater Texas Foundation, the
Russell Sage Foundation and
UT Health Science Center.
20 21E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S T
F I R S TF I R S T
1950Sociology is housed in the
Department of Business
Administration and Economics.
1960The Department of Anthopology
and Sociology is created.
1962The Lena Gohlman Fox Chair in
Sociology is established under a
bequest by
Mamie Fox
Twyman Martel
in honor of her
late mother.
Professor
William McCord
holds the first chair. Initially, it
was used to fund Visiting Professor
Hugh Duncan.
1970The Department of Sociology
separates from the Department
of Anthropology. The separation
agreement
is formalized
in 1971. At
the time, the
department
has four full-
time faculty
members and its first department
chair is Professor Chad Gordon.
1978Walter G. Hall '28 gives East Texas
timber land to Rice with the instruc-
tions that the proceeds from the sale
of the land be divided between the
Department of Sociology and the
Jones School of Business. The Walter
G. Hall Endowment in Sociology is
established in 1985 with the sale of
the land "in the hope
that it will contribute
to a better understand-
ing of the increasingly
complex nature of
our society.”
1982Professor Stephen Klineberg
conducts the
first Kinder
Houston Area
Survey as an
undergradu-
ate class
assignment
on a budget of $3,000. The survey
is the nation's longest running
study for a single metropolitan
area's changing demographics
and public attitudes.
The Walter and Helen Hall Lecture
Series is founded. Through the
years it has brought to Rice
prominent scholars and public
figures, including H. Ross Perot,
Molly Ivins, James Q. Wilson,
William Julius Wilson, and the late
U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.
1986Professor William Martin receives
one of the first George R. Brown
Certificates of Highest Merit
Award. The
award
is given to
professors
only once
in their
careers at
Rice, signifying a level of teaching
excellence so high over the
years that they are retired from
the competition for the George R.
Brown awards. Other university
teaching awards he has received:
George R. Brown Award for
Excellence in Teaching 1975,
1982; George R. Brown Award
for Superior Teaching 1974,
1976, 1977, 1984; Nicolas Salgo
Distinguished Teacher award
1971, 1993.
2006Professor Michael Emerson
receives the George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
Other
university
teaching
awards
he has
received:
George R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching 2003, 2007,
2008; Sarah A. Burnett Teaching
Prize 2012.
2007Professor Michael Emerson
receives the Oliver Cromwell
Cox Award from the American
Sociological Association,
Racial and
Ethnic
Minorities
Section for
his book
People of
the Dream:
Multiracial Congregations
in the United States.
2008A $6.4 million gift from the Houston
Endowment to Rice University is
given to fund the establishment
of the first Ph.D. program in
sociology in Houston. The first
class is admitted in fall of 2011.
Professor Stephen Klineberg
is awarded the George R.Brown
Certificate
of Highest
Merit.
Other
university
teaching
awards he
received: George R. Brown
Award for Excellence in
Teaching 1996; George R.
Brown Award for Superior
Teaching 1981, 1982, 1984,
1991, 1997, 2005, 2008.
2000Professor Elizabeth Long receives
the George R. Brown Award for
Excellence
in Teaching.
Other univer-
sity teaching
awards she
has received:
George R.
Brown Award for Superior Teaching
1993, 1994, 1997, 2004.
2001The Department of Sociology initiates
a postdoctoral fellowship program.
Professor Michael Emerson receives
the Distinguished Book Award from
the Society
for the
Scientific
Study of
Religion
for his book
Divided by
Faith: Evangelical Religion and
the Problem of Race in America.
2004Professor Elizabeth Long receives
an award
from the
American
Sociological
Association,
Culture
Section for
Book Clubs: Women and the Uses
of Reading in Everyday Life.
2005Professor Chandler Davidson is
chosen as one of eight members
of the National Commission on
the Voting Rights Act. The primary
author of the Commission's
report, Davidson also
testified before the
U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee on the
subject in 2006.
Understanding the Power ofReligion in Politics and Science
S O C I O L O G Y
Since the earliest pre-historic civilizations, three words—religion, politicsand science —have defined much of human action. Yet, during all of this time, the appropriate relationships between religion and politics and religion and science remain under intense debate.
TOGETHER, MARTIN AND ECKLUND HAVE ADDED TOOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOUNDARIES ANDINTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICSAND SCIENCE AND MADE RICE ONE OF THE MOSTVISIBLE UNIVERSITIES TODAY STUDYING THEIMPACT OF RELIGION ON SOCIETY.
and attacking candidates who did not agree with their views on
issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to education and
taxes. Martin maintained that religious groups on any end of the
political spectrum needed to be mindful that they were not the
“true” religion, singularly aware of how the country should move
forward. He concluded, “We cannot separate religion from
politics. The question is how they are to be related in such a way
as to maintain the pluralism that has
served this country so well.”
Ecklund has examined a different
aspect of the role of religion in public
life. In her book Science vs Religion:
What Scientists Really Think, Ecklund
considered approaches to religion
and spirituality among academic
natural and social scientists in the U.S. She uncovered that
while scientists are much less likely to express a belief in
God than the general American population, many scientists
do hold religious or spiritual beliefs. In general, religious
scientists reported that their religious beliefs affected the way
they thought about the moral implications of their work, but
not the way they practiced science. As Ecklund concluded,
“The ‘insurmountable hostility’ between science and religion
is a caricature, a thought-cliché…but hardly representative
of reality.” With $3 million in external funding, Ecklund is
currently working on a project that examines scientists from
around the world and their views of religion.
Together, Martin and Ecklund have added to our under-
standing of the boundaries and intersections between religion
and politics and science and made Rice one of the most visible
universities today studying the impact of religion on society.
hile the separation of church and state, adopted in
many countries including the U.S., suggests that
politics should not dictate religion and religion
should not dictate politics, many religious leaders
and practitioners have nevertheless attempted to direct
political and policy decisions. Paul Weyrich, co-founder of
the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and
one of the architects of the religious
right in America, proclaimed,“This
alliance between religion and
politics didn’t just happen. I have
been working on this for years.”
Equally, the scientific method
involves a search for observed,
tested relationships which should
not be influenced by religious beliefs or political ideology.
Yet, even if religion does not have a direct place in science,
it does not mean that scientists have no religious beliefs.
Two Rice sociologists have tackled these complex
questions. William Martin, the Chavanne Emeritus Professor
of Sociology, who arrived at Rice in 1968, has studied the
intersection of religion and politics. Elaine Howard Ecklund,
associate professor of sociology, who joined the department
forty years later in 2008, focuses her research on scientists’
religious beliefs. Martin wrote a seminal work, With
God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America,
analyzing white Evangelical Protestants who are predomi-
nantly members of the Republican Party and conservative
in outlook. Beginning in the late 1970s, they used their
churches as organizational units for political campaigns —
raising considerable campaign money, mobilizing voters
W
22 23E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Understanding the Power ofReligion in Politics and Science
S O C I O L O G Y
Since the earliest pre-historic civilizations, three words—religion, politicsand science —have defined much of human action. Yet, during all of this time, the appropriate relationships between religion and politics and religion and science remain under intense debate.
TOGETHER, MARTIN AND ECKLUND HAVE ADDED TOOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOUNDARIES ANDINTERSECTIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICSAND SCIENCE AND MADE RICE ONE OF THE MOSTVISIBLE UNIVERSITIES TODAY STUDYING THEIMPACT OF RELIGION ON SOCIETY.
and attacking candidates who did not agree with their views on
issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to education and
taxes. Martin maintained that religious groups on any end of the
political spectrum needed to be mindful that they were not the
“true” religion, singularly aware of how the country should move
forward. He concluded, “We cannot separate religion from
politics. The question is how they are to be related in such a way
as to maintain the pluralism that has
served this country so well.”
Ecklund has examined a different
aspect of the role of religion in public
life. In her book Science vs Religion:
What Scientists Really Think, Ecklund
considered approaches to religion
and spirituality among academic
natural and social scientists in the U.S. She uncovered that
while scientists are much less likely to express a belief in
God than the general American population, many scientists
do hold religious or spiritual beliefs. In general, religious
scientists reported that their religious beliefs affected the way
they thought about the moral implications of their work, but
not the way they practiced science. As Ecklund concluded,
“The ‘insurmountable hostility’ between science and religion
is a caricature, a thought-cliché…but hardly representative
of reality.” With $3 million in external funding, Ecklund is
currently working on a project that examines scientists from
around the world and their views of religion.
Together, Martin and Ecklund have added to our under-
standing of the boundaries and intersections between religion
and politics and science and made Rice one of the most visible
universities today studying the impact of religion on society.
hile the separation of church and state, adopted in
many countries including the U.S., suggests that
politics should not dictate religion and religion
should not dictate politics, many religious leaders
and practitioners have nevertheless attempted to direct
political and policy decisions. Paul Weyrich, co-founder of
the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and
one of the architects of the religious
right in America, proclaimed,“This
alliance between religion and
politics didn’t just happen. I have
been working on this for years.”
Equally, the scientific method
involves a search for observed,
tested relationships which should
not be influenced by religious beliefs or political ideology.
Yet, even if religion does not have a direct place in science,
it does not mean that scientists have no religious beliefs.
Two Rice sociologists have tackled these complex
questions. William Martin, the Chavanne Emeritus Professor
of Sociology, who arrived at Rice in 1968, has studied the
intersection of religion and politics. Elaine Howard Ecklund,
associate professor of sociology, who joined the department
forty years later in 2008, focuses her research on scientists’
religious beliefs. Martin wrote a seminal work, With
God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America,
analyzing white Evangelical Protestants who are predomi-
nantly members of the Republican Party and conservative
in outlook. Beginning in the late 1970s, they used their
churches as organizational units for political campaigns —
raising considerable campaign money, mobilizing voters
W
22 23E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
S O C I A L S C I E N C E S A L U M N I
C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40 I B.A., Pre-lawWhen Hank Hudspeth began his studies in
pre-law at Rice University 75 years ago, little
did he imagine his association with Rice would
continue to the university’s centennial year
in 2012. Along the way, he has served in such
capacities as member of the School of Social
Sciences faculty, member of the Rice Board of
Trustees and president of the Association of Rice Alumni.A Rice trustee emeritus since 1989, Hank says his only time not
heavily involved with his alma mater was during his years in law school
at the University of Texas at Austin and the four years he served in the
U.S. Navy. In 1947, he returned to Houston to practice law at the firm
now known as DeLange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets LLP and
where he continues to be “of counsel” today. Hank also made time to teach generations of grateful Rice students
courses in Law and Society and American Government but the highlight
of being part of Rice, Hank says, was meeting his wife, Demaris DeLange
Hudspeth ’42. He and Demaris also have been among Rice’s most
generous philanthropic supporters. There is little doubt, Hank says,
“Rice is clearly our most important institutional relationship.”
Morton Rudberg ’54 I B.A., Accounting and EconomicsMorty has a treasure trove of Rice memories,
both old and new. He remembers photographing
beautiful Lovett Hall as a young undergraduate
and still thinks about the political science
and business law courses he took from Rice
faculty member C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40.
More recently, the longtime Dallas lawyer
and his wife, Peachy, have enjoyed attending the Shepherd
School of Music summer event in Aspen, Colorado, class reunions
during Homecoming at Rice, and Dallas-area alumni events.
Morty and Peachy, having made a provision for Rice in their estate
plans, also are members of the Captain James Addison Baker
Legacy Society at Rice.
After graduating from Rice in 1954, Morty received his law
degree from the University of Texas (UT) School of Law, taught
business law to UT undergraduates, served in the U.S. Army
and joined a law firm in Dallas where he practiced for 42 years.
For the past 12 years, he has had a solo law practice in Dallas.
Morty says his decision to apply and come to Rice was
certainly a fortunate one. Staying so close to the university over
the years has been a choice and commitment he made.
Students Through the Decades
Yvonne Marcuse ’70 I B.A., Anthropology Now an accomplished attorney at Wilentz
Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, N.J.,
Yvonne says Rice helped her pursue her
true passion for anthropology. When she
studied at Rice, there was only an introductory
class in physical anthropology, her specific
area of interest. However, Yvonne credits
several faculty mentors, including cultural anthropologists
Edward Norbeck and Frederick Gamst and archeologist Frank
Hole, with creatively encouraging her academic ambitions. They
allowed her to take graduate-level seminars and work as a
research assistant in the anthropology department. They also
introduced her to prominent physical anthropologists visiting
Rice, guided her in independent study and advised her on taking
related courses in biology, geology, statistics, chemistry and
human anatomy.
“With this background, I was well prepared for graduate
school at the University of Colorado and postdoctoral research in
genetics at Columbia University,” says Yvonne. “I’m an attorney
now, but Rice helped me follow my undergraduate dream and
develop research skills I still use today.”
Mine Yucel ’84 I Ph.D., EconomicsRice gave Mine an excellent foundation on which to
build her remarkable career and she is grateful
her thesis advisor and Rice Professor Emeritus of
Economics Peter Mieszkowski has continued to be
a “great sounding board and mentor.”
Formerly an assistant economics professor at
Louisiana State University, Mine joined the research
department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as an energy economist
in 1989. Currently, she is vice president and senior economist in the
research department. She leads the Regional/Micro/Energy group
and also serves as director of publications and has authored numerous
articles on energy and the Texas economy. Mine has served as
president of the U.S. Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) in
2004 and as president of its parent organization, the International
Association of Energy Economics, an institution with more than 4000
members in 102 countries, in 2011. She received the “Key Women in
Energy—Global” award in 2006, the USAEE Senior Fellow award in
2007, and the Energy Journal Best Paper award in 2009.
Mine and her husband, Adnan Yucel ’82, reside in Dallas and have
two children, Emre Yucel ’08, and Elif Yucel, a student at Trinity
University in San Antonio.
Jay Lamy ’95 I B.A., Managerial StudiesJay Lamy is busy being a husband, father,
and founder and president of AQUILA
Commercial, an Austin commercial real
estate firm. However, Jay says Rice University
continues to be an integral part of his life
through his service on the Austin chapter of
the Rice Alliance, Owl Club regional board,
Centennial Campaign regional committee and Austin chapter
of the Rice Real Estate Group, and as he seeks out employees and
vendors with a Rice pedigree.
After graduating from Rice, Jay joined CIBC Oppenheimer’s
investment banking group in New York as an analyst in the
Financial Institutions Group focusing on merger and acquisition
transactions. Jay then worked with Bariston Partners, a merchant
bank/venture capital group in Boston focused on new company
acquisitions and financial advisory work for existing portfolio
companies. He joined The Staubach Company, first working in
their Dallas office and later opening their Austin office. During
his tenure at The Staubach Company, Jay was honored for his
outstanding work on some of Austin's most highly visible real
estate transactions. In January of 2007, Jay founded AQUILA
Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm.
Jay, a Rice donor and football letterman, is married to Kelley
Carson and they have two young children, Matthew and Camille.
Brenda Arredondo ’05 I B.A., Political ScienceBrenda credits Rice’s outstanding reputation with
launching her career in national politics. Her decision
was greatly influenced when she combined the political
science theory she learned in the classroom with
practical experience during a Rice Baker Institute
summer internship on Washington’s Capitol Hill.
The El Paso native’s first job after graduation from
Rice was working for a Texas member of Congress. Brenda has now spent
the last seven years working for various U.S. representatives and senators in
Washington, D.C. She also worked for a presidential candidate during the
2008 presidential race. The exposure she had during the internship to
influential people allowed her to jump right into her career on Capitol Hill
by preparing her for meetings later with some of these same leaders.
Brenda has called Washington, D.C. her home since 2006 and currently
works in Congress as press secretary for a joint congressional committee.
The Wiess College alumna supports Rice through contributions to the Rice
Annual Fund.
Cheta Ozougwu ’11 I B.A., EconomicsCheta Ozougwu brings his very best to everything
he does. He was an outstanding student leader and
star athlete at Houston’s Alief Taylor High School.
During his time at Rice, he was a top economics
student, campus leader and volunteer, as well as
an outstanding football player. Cheta earned
All C-USA honors where as one of
Rice’s best defensive players he amassed 197 total
tackles and 11 sacks during his career.
Cheta’s experience at Rice went well beyond
the football field. A devout Christian, he
joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
volunteered at numerous communityorganizations, mentored children and
held campus leadership positions,
all while maintaining a 3.41 grade
point average. He also partici-
pated in the School of Social
Sciences Gateway program
with an internship at AON
Risk Services in Houston.
Initially drafted in the
2011 draft by the Houston
Texans, Cheta recently
started the next chapter of
his life by signing with the
National Football League’s
Chicago Bears.
24 25E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Don C. Des Jarlais ’67 I B.A., Behavioral ScienceDon C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D. says his undergrad-
uate years at Rice University taught him
how to study, conduct research in multiple
scientific disciplines, learn to empathize
with people who have drug use issues and
prepared him for his research career.
Now director of research for the Baron
Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at
Beth Israel Medical Center, a professor at Columbia University
Medical Center and a guest investigator at Rockefeller University
in New York, Don is a leader in the fields of HIV/AIDS and
injecting drug use. He has published extensively on these topics
in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the
American Medical Association, and the journals Science and
Nature, and has collaborated on studies in 25 different countries.
He serves as a consultant to various institutions, including
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of Sciences and
the World Health Organization. He is a former commissioner
for the U.S. National Commission on AIDS and is currently a
Core Group Member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV
and Injecting Drug Use and a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Don and his wife, Sharon, have a son, Robert, and a long
history of supporting Rice University.
S O C I A L S C I E N C E S A L U M N I
C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40 I B.A., Pre-lawWhen Hank Hudspeth began his studies in
pre-law at Rice University 75 years ago, little
did he imagine his association with Rice would
continue to the university’s centennial year
in 2012. Along the way, he has served in such
capacities as member of the School of Social
Sciences faculty, member of the Rice Board of
Trustees and president of the Association of Rice Alumni.A Rice trustee emeritus since 1989, Hank says his only time not
heavily involved with his alma mater was during his years in law school
at the University of Texas at Austin and the four years he served in the
U.S. Navy. In 1947, he returned to Houston to practice law at the firm
now known as DeLange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets LLP and
where he continues to be “of counsel” today. Hank also made time to teach generations of grateful Rice students
courses in Law and Society and American Government but the highlight
of being part of Rice, Hank says, was meeting his wife, Demaris DeLange
Hudspeth ’42. He and Demaris also have been among Rice’s most
generous philanthropic supporters. There is little doubt, Hank says,
“Rice is clearly our most important institutional relationship.”
Morton Rudberg ’54 I B.A., Accounting and EconomicsMorty has a treasure trove of Rice memories,
both old and new. He remembers photographing
beautiful Lovett Hall as a young undergraduate
and still thinks about the political science
and business law courses he took from Rice
faculty member C.M. “Hank” Hudspeth ’40.
More recently, the longtime Dallas lawyer
and his wife, Peachy, have enjoyed attending the Shepherd
School of Music summer event in Aspen, Colorado, class reunions
during Homecoming at Rice, and Dallas-area alumni events.
Morty and Peachy, having made a provision for Rice in their estate
plans, also are members of the Captain James Addison Baker
Legacy Society at Rice.
After graduating from Rice in 1954, Morty received his law
degree from the University of Texas (UT) School of Law, taught
business law to UT undergraduates, served in the U.S. Army
and joined a law firm in Dallas where he practiced for 42 years.
For the past 12 years, he has had a solo law practice in Dallas.
Morty says his decision to apply and come to Rice was
certainly a fortunate one. Staying so close to the university over
the years has been a choice and commitment he made.
Students Through the Decades
Yvonne Marcuse ’70 I B.A., Anthropology Now an accomplished attorney at Wilentz
Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, N.J.,
Yvonne says Rice helped her pursue her
true passion for anthropology. When she
studied at Rice, there was only an introductory
class in physical anthropology, her specific
area of interest. However, Yvonne credits
several faculty mentors, including cultural anthropologists
Edward Norbeck and Frederick Gamst and archeologist Frank
Hole, with creatively encouraging her academic ambitions. They
allowed her to take graduate-level seminars and work as a
research assistant in the anthropology department. They also
introduced her to prominent physical anthropologists visiting
Rice, guided her in independent study and advised her on taking
related courses in biology, geology, statistics, chemistry and
human anatomy.
“With this background, I was well prepared for graduate
school at the University of Colorado and postdoctoral research in
genetics at Columbia University,” says Yvonne. “I’m an attorney
now, but Rice helped me follow my undergraduate dream and
develop research skills I still use today.”
Mine Yucel ’84 I Ph.D., EconomicsRice gave Mine an excellent foundation on which to
build her remarkable career and she is grateful
her thesis advisor and Rice Professor Emeritus of
Economics Peter Mieszkowski has continued to be
a “great sounding board and mentor.”
Formerly an assistant economics professor at
Louisiana State University, Mine joined the research
department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as an energy economist
in 1989. Currently, she is vice president and senior economist in the
research department. She leads the Regional/Micro/Energy group
and also serves as director of publications and has authored numerous
articles on energy and the Texas economy. Mine has served as
president of the U.S. Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) in
2004 and as president of its parent organization, the International
Association of Energy Economics, an institution with more than 4000
members in 102 countries, in 2011. She received the “Key Women in
Energy—Global” award in 2006, the USAEE Senior Fellow award in
2007, and the Energy Journal Best Paper award in 2009.
Mine and her husband, Adnan Yucel ’82, reside in Dallas and have
two children, Emre Yucel ’08, and Elif Yucel, a student at Trinity
University in San Antonio.
Jay Lamy ’95 I B.A., Managerial StudiesJay Lamy is busy being a husband, father,
and founder and president of AQUILA
Commercial, an Austin commercial real
estate firm. However, Jay says Rice University
continues to be an integral part of his life
through his service on the Austin chapter of
the Rice Alliance, Owl Club regional board,
Centennial Campaign regional committee and Austin chapter
of the Rice Real Estate Group, and as he seeks out employees and
vendors with a Rice pedigree.
After graduating from Rice, Jay joined CIBC Oppenheimer’s
investment banking group in New York as an analyst in the
Financial Institutions Group focusing on merger and acquisition
transactions. Jay then worked with Bariston Partners, a merchant
bank/venture capital group in Boston focused on new company
acquisitions and financial advisory work for existing portfolio
companies. He joined The Staubach Company, first working in
their Dallas office and later opening their Austin office. During
his tenure at The Staubach Company, Jay was honored for his
outstanding work on some of Austin's most highly visible real
estate transactions. In January of 2007, Jay founded AQUILA
Commercial, an Austin commercial real estate firm.
Jay, a Rice donor and football letterman, is married to Kelley
Carson and they have two young children, Matthew and Camille.
Brenda Arredondo ’05 I B.A., Political ScienceBrenda credits Rice’s outstanding reputation with
launching her career in national politics. Her decision
was greatly influenced when she combined the political
science theory she learned in the classroom with
practical experience during a Rice Baker Institute
summer internship on Washington’s Capitol Hill.
The El Paso native’s first job after graduation from
Rice was working for a Texas member of Congress. Brenda has now spent
the last seven years working for various U.S. representatives and senators in
Washington, D.C. She also worked for a presidential candidate during the
2008 presidential race. The exposure she had during the internship to
influential people allowed her to jump right into her career on Capitol Hill
by preparing her for meetings later with some of these same leaders.
Brenda has called Washington, D.C. her home since 2006 and currently
works in Congress as press secretary for a joint congressional committee.
The Wiess College alumna supports Rice through contributions to the Rice
Annual Fund.
Cheta Ozougwu ’11 I B.A., EconomicsCheta Ozougwu brings his very best to everything
he does. He was an outstanding student leader and
star athlete at Houston’s Alief Taylor High School.
During his time at Rice, he was a top economics
student, campus leader and volunteer, as well as
an outstanding football player. Cheta earned
All C-USA honors where as one of
Rice’s best defensive players he amassed 197 total
tackles and 11 sacks during his career.
Cheta’s experience at Rice went well beyond
the football field. A devout Christian, he
joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
volunteered at numerous communityorganizations, mentored children and
held campus leadership positions,
all while maintaining a 3.41 grade
point average. He also partici-
pated in the School of Social
Sciences Gateway program
with an internship at AON
Risk Services in Houston.
Initially drafted in the
2011 draft by the Houston
Texans, Cheta recently
started the next chapter of
his life by signing with the
National Football League’s
Chicago Bears.
24 25E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
Don C. Des Jarlais ’67 I B.A., Behavioral ScienceDon C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D. says his undergrad-
uate years at Rice University taught him
how to study, conduct research in multiple
scientific disciplines, learn to empathize
with people who have drug use issues and
prepared him for his research career.
Now director of research for the Baron
Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at
Beth Israel Medical Center, a professor at Columbia University
Medical Center and a guest investigator at Rockefeller University
in New York, Don is a leader in the fields of HIV/AIDS and
injecting drug use. He has published extensively on these topics
in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the
American Medical Association, and the journals Science and
Nature, and has collaborated on studies in 25 different countries.
He serves as a consultant to various institutions, including
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of Sciences and
the World Health Organization. He is a former commissioner
for the U.S. National Commission on AIDS and is currently a
Core Group Member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV
and Injecting Drug Use and a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Don and his wife, Sharon, have a son, Robert, and a long
history of supporting Rice University.
RiceReceives$25 Million NamingGiftfromAlumnusRobert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building
G I V I N G
proximity to the Baker Institute for
Public Policy and the Jones Graduate
School of Business, this new addition
to our campus will facilitate collabora-
tive interdisciplinary study and create
a policy-oriented corridor at Rice
that will further contribute
to solutions for the pressing
problems of our city, our
nation and our planet.”
Klein has a Master of Arts
(1975) and a doctorate (1976),
summa cum laude, both in
economics, from Rice. He also
has a Bachelor of Science degree with
highest honors in chemical engineering
(1969) from Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y.
He is currently a director of
the renewable energy firm Riverbank
Power, which develops, constructs
and operates hydropower facilities
in North and South America. The
company’s run-of-river and pumped
storage hydropower projects represent
the world’s largest hydropower
development pipeline.
ice University has received
a $25 million gift from
alumnus Robert Klein to
name a new School of Social
Sciences building. The Rice Board
of Trustees approved the proposal at
its March 22 meeting.
The Robert A. Klein
Hall for Social Sciences
will house the majority
of the school’s current
academic departments,
institutes and centers.
It will be built on campus
near the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy and Jesse H. Jones
School of Graduate Business.
“We are tremendously grateful
to Bob Klein for such a visionary
and generous gift at time when the
social sciences are growing rapidly
in importance both at Rice and in
the world,” Rice President David
Leebron said. “With a location in close
RSince beginning his career in
1969 as a research engineer and
later a senior economist with Shell
Oil Company in Texas, Klein has held
senior management positions in
the energy, risk-management and
energy-trading industries, including
petrochemicals general manager of
Vista Chemicals in Houston, senior
vice president of commercial and
trading for PacifiCorp in Portland,
Ore., and group energy risk director
for Scottish Power in Glasgow, Scotland.
Before joining Riverbank in October
2010, Klein served as chief financial
officer and chief commercial officer for
Symbiotics Energy LLC, a hydropower
developer later acquired by Riverbank.
“I’ve been blessed with good
fortune in business and wanted to share
that with Rice,” Klein said. His years
at Rice were “the richest part of my
education,” he said, and he added that
he has fond memories of rigorous
political and social discussions with his
fellow students over coffee at Sammy’s
Lounge in the student center. “At Rice
I learned how to realize George Bernard
Shaw’s philosophy – ‘Imagine what
you desire, will what you imagine and
create what you will.’”
For the past two years, Klein has
served on the School of Social Sciences
Dean’s Advisory Board. He said the new
building will
help “foster
interaction
among faculty
and graduate
students and
enrich both.”
“I am thrilled to have one of our very
own Social Sciences graduates’ names on
this building,” said Lyn Ragsdale, dean
of the School of Social Sciences. “The
building will be a testament to Bob Klein’s
remarkable talent and success as well as
his courage and unflagging determination
in life. He has been an extremely valuable
member of our advisory board and
understands that Rice cannot be a truly
top university without a distinctive
facility to accommodate the growth and
the importance of the social sciences.”
More than one-third of Rice
undergraduates choose a major in
one of the social science departments,
which include anthropology, economics,
political science, psychology and sociology,
all of which also offer Ph.D. programs,
and the school has conferred the most
undergraduate degrees at Rice during the
past 10 years. It offers interdisciplinary
programs in cognitive sciences, managerial
studies and policy studies and houses
five research institutes and centers:
the Douglas S. Harlan Program in State
Elections, Campaigns and Politics; the
Hobby Center for the Study of Texas;
the Kinder Institute for Urban Research;
the Shell Center
for Sustainability;
and the Social
Sciences Research
Institute.
Ragsdale, the
Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs
and a professor of political science, said
three of the top five majors at Rice are in
economics (No. 1), psychology (No. 2) and
political science (No. 5). As Rice began the
30 percent expansion of its undergraduate
student body in 2006, the number of under-
graduate student majors in the School of
Social Sciences began to expandas well –
from 642 in 2006 to 1,044 in 2012 – a 63
percent increase, Ragsdale said.
Planning for the new building’s
design is in progress, and
dates for construction will
be determined in the
near future.
...THE NEW BUILDING WILL HELP“FOSTER INTERACTION AMONG
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTSAND ENRICH BOTH.”
26 27E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
RiceReceives$25 Million NamingGiftfromAlumnusRobert Klein for a New Social Sciences Building
G I V I N G
proximity to the Baker Institute for
Public Policy and the Jones Graduate
School of Business, this new addition
to our campus will facilitate collabora-
tive interdisciplinary study and create
a policy-oriented corridor at Rice
that will further contribute
to solutions for the pressing
problems of our city, our
nation and our planet.”
Klein has a Master of Arts
(1975) and a doctorate (1976),
summa cum laude, both in
economics, from Rice. He also
has a Bachelor of Science degree with
highest honors in chemical engineering
(1969) from Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y.
He is currently a director of
the renewable energy firm Riverbank
Power, which develops, constructs
and operates hydropower facilities
in North and South America. The
company’s run-of-river and pumped
storage hydropower projects represent
the world’s largest hydropower
development pipeline.
ice University has received
a $25 million gift from
alumnus Robert Klein to
name a new School of Social
Sciences building. The Rice Board
of Trustees approved the proposal at
its March 22 meeting.
The Robert A. Klein
Hall for Social Sciences
will house the majority
of the school’s current
academic departments,
institutes and centers.
It will be built on campus
near the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy and Jesse H. Jones
School of Graduate Business.
“We are tremendously grateful
to Bob Klein for such a visionary
and generous gift at time when the
social sciences are growing rapidly
in importance both at Rice and in
the world,” Rice President David
Leebron said. “With a location in close
RSince beginning his career in
1969 as a research engineer and
later a senior economist with Shell
Oil Company in Texas, Klein has held
senior management positions in
the energy, risk-management and
energy-trading industries, including
petrochemicals general manager of
Vista Chemicals in Houston, senior
vice president of commercial and
trading for PacifiCorp in Portland,
Ore., and group energy risk director
for Scottish Power in Glasgow, Scotland.
Before joining Riverbank in October
2010, Klein served as chief financial
officer and chief commercial officer for
Symbiotics Energy LLC, a hydropower
developer later acquired by Riverbank.
“I’ve been blessed with good
fortune in business and wanted to share
that with Rice,” Klein said. His years
at Rice were “the richest part of my
education,” he said, and he added that
he has fond memories of rigorous
political and social discussions with his
fellow students over coffee at Sammy’s
Lounge in the student center. “At Rice
I learned how to realize George Bernard
Shaw’s philosophy – ‘Imagine what
you desire, will what you imagine and
create what you will.’”
For the past two years, Klein has
served on the School of Social Sciences
Dean’s Advisory Board. He said the new
building will
help “foster
interaction
among faculty
and graduate
students and
enrich both.”
“I am thrilled to have one of our very
own Social Sciences graduates’ names on
this building,” said Lyn Ragsdale, dean
of the School of Social Sciences. “The
building will be a testament to Bob Klein’s
remarkable talent and success as well as
his courage and unflagging determination
in life. He has been an extremely valuable
member of our advisory board and
understands that Rice cannot be a truly
top university without a distinctive
facility to accommodate the growth and
the importance of the social sciences.”
More than one-third of Rice
undergraduates choose a major in
one of the social science departments,
which include anthropology, economics,
political science, psychology and sociology,
all of which also offer Ph.D. programs,
and the school has conferred the most
undergraduate degrees at Rice during the
past 10 years. It offers interdisciplinary
programs in cognitive sciences, managerial
studies and policy studies and houses
five research institutes and centers:
the Douglas S. Harlan Program in State
Elections, Campaigns and Politics; the
Hobby Center for the Study of Texas;
the Kinder Institute for Urban Research;
the Shell Center
for Sustainability;
and the Social
Sciences Research
Institute.
Ragsdale, the
Radoslav A. Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs
and a professor of political science, said
three of the top five majors at Rice are in
economics (No. 1), psychology (No. 2) and
political science (No. 5). As Rice began the
30 percent expansion of its undergraduate
student body in 2006, the number of under-
graduate student majors in the School of
Social Sciences began to expandas well –
from 642 in 2006 to 1,044 in 2012 – a 63
percent increase, Ragsdale said.
Planning for the new building’s
design is in progress, and
dates for construction will
be determined in the
near future.
...THE NEW BUILDING WILL HELP“FOSTER INTERACTION AMONG
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTSAND ENRICH BOTH.”
26 27E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
G I V I N G
Lee Friedman, Ph.D.
Catherine O'Dell Fritz, Ph.D.
Dr. and Mrs. S. Malcolm Gillis
Julius and Suzan Glickman
Sandra Sheen Godfrey, Ph.D.
Ron B. Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Ms. Dianne Gordon
Ms. Marta Isabel Fonseca & Mr. Edward Earl Graham
Greater Houston Community Foundation
Greater Texas Foundation
Greater Tomball Area Chamber of Commerce
Gulf Coast Power Association
Timothy Scott Gunning, Ph.D.
Ms. Anh-Thuy Thi Nguyen & Mr. Russell Warren Hall
Mr. Jiaqi Hao
Mr. and Mrs. W. Majors Harris
Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc.
Mikki Hebl, Ph.D.
Michele Elizabeth Hendrix, Ph.D.
Mr. Thomas B. Hix, Jr.
The Honorable and Mrs. W. P. Hobby
Mr. Christopher Hopeman
Houston Ballet
Houston Endowment Inc.
William Carl Howell, Ph.D.
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Ms. Adele D. James
Mrs. Tracy Dittert Janda & Mr. Ken W. Janda
Mr. Paul Richard Jeanneret
JPMorgan Chase
John Rains Kelly, Ph.D.
William J. Kelly, Ph.D.
Pamela Ann Kennedy, Ph.D.
KHOU-TV
Kinder Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Kinder
Mr. Klee R. Kleber
Robert A. Klein, Ph.D.
The Kroger Company Foundation
Lakewood Church
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Larsen
Judith Lentz, Ph.D.
Justin Theodore Leroux, Ph.D.
Ronald L. Leven, Ph.D.
Mr. Charles E. Lincoln
Michael D. Maher, Ph.D.
Marek Bros. Systems, Inc.
Marek Family of Companies
Ms. Reinnette Morin Marek & Mr. Stan Marek, Jr.
Dr. Mary McIntire & Dr. James R. Pomerantz
Ms. Susan Keech McIntosh
Ms. Milinda Leigh McNeely
Mr. Samuel Morton McPhail
The Meadows Foundation
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
MetroBank
Ms. Betsy Miller & James Isaac Miller, Ph.D.
Ms. Janet L. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. William V. Morgan
Ms. Nancy Carmichael Murphy
Dr. Alma M. Novotny
Frederick L. Oswald, Ph.D.
Stephen Frank Overturf, Ph.D.
Mr. Patrick Oxford
Linda and Monte Pendleton
Mr. Jason T. Perlioni
Pinto America Growth Fund, L.P.
Julie and Rege Platek
Ms. Sandy Price-Epstein
Karin Dudziak Quinones, Ph.D. & Miguel A. Quinones, Ph.D.
Lyn Ragsdale, Ph.D.
Kathleen Blyth McDermott, Ph.D. & Henry L. Roediger III, Ph.
Ms. Ariel Elyse Rogers
Thomas R. Saving Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Saving
David Robert Schwartz, Ph.D.
Mr. Allan Arthur Shenoi
SHW Group LLP
Robin C. Sickles, Ph.D.
Ms. Jeanine Lee Skorinko
South Texas College of Law
Lucyna Spychalski
Sterling Bank
Gary H. Stern, Ph.D.
Mr. Herman Stude
Study Abroad Foundation, Inc.
John Templeton Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Francis D. Tuggle
Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Sant
Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner & John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D.
Frederick H. Wallace, Ph.D.
Wulfe & Co.
Wulfe Management Services Inc
Dr. and Mrs. George R. Zodrow
Listing includes donors from June 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams
Amegy Bank
Analytic Resources, Inc.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Laura and John Arnold
Doyle L. Arnold and Anne Glarner
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Association
Ms. Sarah Balinskas & Mr. Jeffrey M. Debevec
Bank of America
Bank of America Foundation
Mr. Russell C. Barnes
Ms. Wei Wu & Dr. Richard R. Batsell
Mr. Randolph J. Beck
Bhatia Foundation
Mr. Vineet Bhatia
Joan Binstock & David Silvers
Ms. Krystal A. Bivens
Blumer Family Fund
Mr. Terry J. Blumer
Janet Hilary Blunt, Ph.D.
Ms. Catherine Bracken
Ms. Vicki Whamond Bretthauer & Mr. Neil L. Bretthauer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Brooks
Brookstone, L.P.
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Eric Ramsey Brown
Sarah A. Burnett, Ph.D.
Jennifer Rich Captain, Ph.D. & Purvez Fali Captain, Ph.D.
Ms. Joanne Carpenter
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Randi C. Martin, Ph.D. & Lawrence Chan, Ph.D.
The Allan & Lalita Charitable Foundation
Jean Barrow Talbert Clarke
Mr. Robert L. Clarke
Cockrell Interests, Inc.
Mr. James Codd
Mr. F. J. Hank Coleman, Jr.
Comerica
Dr. Nancy Cooke
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Crownover
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
Direct Energy
Mr. Robert M. Eury
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Richard D. Felder, Ph.D.
Robert H. Floyd, Ph.D.
Foundation for Child Development
The School of Social Sciences would like toacknowledge its recent donors. Thank youfor your generous support.
The School of Social Sciences welcomesyour participation in Rice University’sCentennial Campaign and encourages you to consider a campaign priority mostmeaningful to you.
Selected special giving opportunities in the School of Social Sciences:
• Naming opportunities in the new Robert A. Klein Hall
for Social Sciences
• Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology
• Graduate Economics Alumni Fund
• Social Sciences Research Institute
• Gateway program for undergraduates
Your gift can take several forms and, in addition to benefiting
the social sciences at Rice, may provide powerful tax or
estate-planning benefits to you. For information and assistance
regarding giving to Rice, please contact Julie Platek, executive
director of development for the School of Social Sciences, at
713.348.2190 or [email protected].
ThankYou. Partner with us.
28 29E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
G I V I N G
Lee Friedman, Ph.D.
Catherine O'Dell Fritz, Ph.D.
Dr. and Mrs. S. Malcolm Gillis
Julius and Suzan Glickman
Sandra Sheen Godfrey, Ph.D.
Ron B. Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Ms. Dianne Gordon
Ms. Marta Isabel Fonseca & Mr. Edward Earl Graham
Greater Houston Community Foundation
Greater Texas Foundation
Greater Tomball Area Chamber of Commerce
Gulf Coast Power Association
Timothy Scott Gunning, Ph.D.
Ms. Anh-Thuy Thi Nguyen & Mr. Russell Warren Hall
Mr. Jiaqi Hao
Mr. and Mrs. W. Majors Harris
Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc.
Mikki Hebl, Ph.D.
Michele Elizabeth Hendrix, Ph.D.
Mr. Thomas B. Hix, Jr.
The Honorable and Mrs. W. P. Hobby
Mr. Christopher Hopeman
Houston Ballet
Houston Endowment Inc.
William Carl Howell, Ph.D.
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Ms. Adele D. James
Mrs. Tracy Dittert Janda & Mr. Ken W. Janda
Mr. Paul Richard Jeanneret
JPMorgan Chase
John Rains Kelly, Ph.D.
William J. Kelly, Ph.D.
Pamela Ann Kennedy, Ph.D.
KHOU-TV
Kinder Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Kinder
Mr. Klee R. Kleber
Robert A. Klein, Ph.D.
The Kroger Company Foundation
Lakewood Church
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Larsen
Judith Lentz, Ph.D.
Justin Theodore Leroux, Ph.D.
Ronald L. Leven, Ph.D.
Mr. Charles E. Lincoln
Michael D. Maher, Ph.D.
Marek Bros. Systems, Inc.
Marek Family of Companies
Ms. Reinnette Morin Marek & Mr. Stan Marek, Jr.
Dr. Mary McIntire & Dr. James R. Pomerantz
Ms. Susan Keech McIntosh
Ms. Milinda Leigh McNeely
Mr. Samuel Morton McPhail
The Meadows Foundation
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
MetroBank
Ms. Betsy Miller & James Isaac Miller, Ph.D.
Ms. Janet L. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. William V. Morgan
Ms. Nancy Carmichael Murphy
Dr. Alma M. Novotny
Frederick L. Oswald, Ph.D.
Stephen Frank Overturf, Ph.D.
Mr. Patrick Oxford
Linda and Monte Pendleton
Mr. Jason T. Perlioni
Pinto America Growth Fund, L.P.
Julie and Rege Platek
Ms. Sandy Price-Epstein
Karin Dudziak Quinones, Ph.D. & Miguel A. Quinones, Ph.D.
Lyn Ragsdale, Ph.D.
Kathleen Blyth McDermott, Ph.D. & Henry L. Roediger III, Ph.
Ms. Ariel Elyse Rogers
Thomas R. Saving Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Saving
David Robert Schwartz, Ph.D.
Mr. Allan Arthur Shenoi
SHW Group LLP
Robin C. Sickles, Ph.D.
Ms. Jeanine Lee Skorinko
South Texas College of Law
Lucyna Spychalski
Sterling Bank
Gary H. Stern, Ph.D.
Mr. Herman Stude
Study Abroad Foundation, Inc.
John Templeton Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Francis D. Tuggle
Dr. and Mrs. J.F. Van Sant
Mrs. Judith C. Van Wagoner & John Charles Van Wagoner, Ph.D.
Frederick H. Wallace, Ph.D.
Wulfe & Co.
Wulfe Management Services Inc
Dr. and Mrs. George R. Zodrow
Listing includes donors from June 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams
Amegy Bank
Analytic Resources, Inc.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Laura and John Arnold
Doyle L. Arnold and Anne Glarner
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Association
Ms. Sarah Balinskas & Mr. Jeffrey M. Debevec
Bank of America
Bank of America Foundation
Mr. Russell C. Barnes
Ms. Wei Wu & Dr. Richard R. Batsell
Mr. Randolph J. Beck
Bhatia Foundation
Mr. Vineet Bhatia
Joan Binstock & David Silvers
Ms. Krystal A. Bivens
Blumer Family Fund
Mr. Terry J. Blumer
Janet Hilary Blunt, Ph.D.
Ms. Catherine Bracken
Ms. Vicki Whamond Bretthauer & Mr. Neil L. Bretthauer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Brooks
Brookstone, L.P.
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Eric Ramsey Brown
Sarah A. Burnett, Ph.D.
Jennifer Rich Captain, Ph.D. & Purvez Fali Captain, Ph.D.
Ms. Joanne Carpenter
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Randi C. Martin, Ph.D. & Lawrence Chan, Ph.D.
The Allan & Lalita Charitable Foundation
Jean Barrow Talbert Clarke
Mr. Robert L. Clarke
Cockrell Interests, Inc.
Mr. James Codd
Mr. F. J. Hank Coleman, Jr.
Comerica
Dr. Nancy Cooke
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Crownover
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
Direct Energy
Mr. Robert M. Eury
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Richard D. Felder, Ph.D.
Robert H. Floyd, Ph.D.
Foundation for Child Development
The School of Social Sciences would like toacknowledge its recent donors. Thank youfor your generous support.
The School of Social Sciences welcomesyour participation in Rice University’sCentennial Campaign and encourages you to consider a campaign priority mostmeaningful to you.
Selected special giving opportunities in the School of Social Sciences:
• Naming opportunities in the new Robert A. Klein Hall
for Social Sciences
• Professor William C. Howell Endowed Fund in Psychology
• Graduate Economics Alumni Fund
• Social Sciences Research Institute
• Gateway program for undergraduates
Your gift can take several forms and, in addition to benefiting
the social sciences at Rice, may provide powerful tax or
estate-planning benefits to you. For information and assistance
regarding giving to Rice, please contact Julie Platek, executive
director of development for the School of Social Sciences, at
713.348.2190 or [email protected].
ThankYou. Partner with us.
28 29E Y E O N P E O P L EE Y E O N P E O P L E
The School of Social Sciences explores new pathways
School of Social Sciences
Lyn Ragsdale
Dean
Ipek Martinez
Associate Dean
Director of Gateway
Lisa Birenbaum
Assistant Dean
Heather Willrich Stern
Manager of Grant
Administration
Abbey Godley
Gateway Administrator
Alex Wyatt
Social Sciences Coordinator
Julie Platek
Executive Director
of Development
Department Chairs
Eugenia Georges
Anthropology
Bryan Brown
Economics
Mark P. Jones
Political Science
James Dannemiller
Psychology
Elizabeth Long
Sociology
Institute, Center and Program Directors
Suzanne Kemmer
Cognitive Sciences
Keith Hamm
Douglas S. Harlan Program
in State Elections,
Campaigns and Politics
Steve Murdock
Hobby Center for
the Study of Texas
Stephen Klineberg and
Michael Emerson
Kinder Institute for
Urban Research
Richard Stoll
Managerial Studies
Don Ostdiek
Policy Studies
John Anderson
Shell Center for Sustainability
School of Social Sciences, MS-27Rice University PO Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892
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