2023 Honors: Institute for Policy Research

2023 Honors

Professor of medical social sciences and IPR associate Brian Mustanski was appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
IPR political scientist Tabitha Bonilla received the 2023 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Latino/a Graduate Students in Political Science from the American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession.
IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry was awarded the 2024 Ann L. Brown Award for Excellence in Developmental Research by the Developmental Area of the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois.

IPR statistician Larry Hedges received the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education at the University of Helsinki. Learn more about his career and achievements.
Professor and founding chair of medical social sciences and IPR associate David Cella, IPR political scientist Jamie Druckman, and IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton were named 2023 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.
IPR developmental psychologist and IPR associate Yang Qu won the 2023 Early Career Award from the Society for the Study of Human Development.

IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin was named the University’s inaugural faculty director of student access and enrichment.
Professor and founding chair of medical social sciences and IPR associate David Cella was named the winner of the 2023 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
IPR political scientist Daniel Galvin, IPR political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton were each promoted to full professor.
IPR economist Hannes Schwandt and healthcare economist and IPR associate Amanda Starc were promoted to research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Healthcare economist and IPR associate Craig Garthwaite was named a member of the Panel of Health Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office.
Sociologist and African American studies researcher and IPR associate Mary Pattillo received a commitment to justice award from the Ida B. Wells Legacy Committee.
IPR economist Kirabo Jackson was appointed a senior member of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers.
IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton was elected as chair of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
IPR anthropologist Sera Young was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

IPR social policy expert Sally Nuamah received the American Political Science Association’s Ralph J. Bunche Award, Dennis Judd Award, and the Best Book Award from the Race, Ethnicity & Politics section, for her latest book, Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans (2023, Cambridge University Press).
IPR political scientist Chloe Thurston received the American Political Science Association’s Heinz I. Eulau Award for her co-authored article “From the margins to the center: A bottom-up approach to welfare state scholarship.”
IPR economist Ofer Malamud received SESP’s Outstanding Faculty Member Award.

Media, technology, and society researcher and IPR associate Pablo Boczkowski's book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (2004, MIT Press), received the 2023 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association. The book also received the ICA's Best Book Award in 2005, making it the first in ICA's history to obtain its two major book awards.
Social policy scholar and IPR associate Quinn Mulroy’s paper, “The rise of (e)quality politics: The political development of higher education policy, 1969–1999,” co-authored by Heather McCambly, won the 2022 David Brian Robertson Award for Best Paper in Politics and History, given by the American Political Science Association’s Politics and History Section.
IPR sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa was elected chair of the American Sociological Association’s Education division.

CORNERS Executive Director Soledad McGrath was appointed to serve on Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson's Public Safety Transition Subcommittee.
Political scientist and IPR associate Ana Arjona was selected as one of the next co-editors of Perspectives on Politics.

IPR health disparities scholar and IPR associate Melissa Simon was appointed as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Learning sciences scholar and IPR associate Nichole Pinkard was chosen to be a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
IPR political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong was selected as the 2023 Manatt Fellow of the Electoral Integrity Project.

Behavioral scientist and IPR associate Linda Teplin was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

IPR statistician Larry Hedges, IPR economist Kirabo Jackson, IPR Director and economist Diane Schanzenbach, and IPR education professor and associate James Spillane were included in the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, ranking U.S. university-based scholars who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.