Career

Page Contents:

1. Honors And Awards
2. Positions Held
3. Current And Recent Professional Positions
4. Current Administrative Positions at Brown
5. Recent Brown Administrative Positions
6. Research And Training Grants

 

Honors And Awards:

--Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.

--Prisoner of the Vatican selected one of the best books of the year, 2004, Publishers’ Weekly.

--Mark Lynton Prize for History, finalist 2002; and Toronto Globe and Mail, one of the 100 best books of the year, 2002, The Popes Against the Jews.

--Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, May-June 2000.

--Fulbright Chair, University of Bologna, spring 2000.

--American Academy of Rome, Department of Education Professor, fall 1999.

--National Book Award for nonfiction for 1997, finalist, for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Also National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian relations, 1997; and Best books of the year, nonfiction, Publishers Weekly, and Toronto Globe and Mail, 1997.

--National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-96.

--1990 Marraro Prize (Society for Italian Historical Studies) for "the best work on Italian history" in 1989 for Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change.

--Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986-1987.

--1985 Marraro Prize (Society for Italian Historical Studies) for "the best work on Italian history" in 1984 for Family Life in Central Italy.

--Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1982-3.

--Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of Catania, Italy, winter-spring 1978.

--Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow , 1972-1973.

--Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Brown University, 1969.

Positions Held (not listed above):

--2006- Provost, Brown University.

--2002-6 Chair, Department of Anthropology, Brown University.

--1992- Brown University. Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science; Professor of Anthropology (1992- ) and History (1992-2001); Professor of Italian Studies (2001- ).

--2002 (January) Visiting professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

--1994 (January) Visiting directeur d'études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

--1994 (June) Visiting scholar, Posthumus Institute and University of Amsterdam.

--1989-92 William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Bowdoin College.

--1991 (April) Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.

--1984-89 Professor of Anthropology; Chair (1984-86; 1987- 88, 1992), Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Bowdoin.

--1987 (May) Professore a contratto, University of Bologna.

--1979-84 Associate Professor of Anthropology; Chair (1979- 81), Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin.

--1973-1979 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin.

Current And Recent Professional Positions:

--Member, Scientific Committee, Genus (2008- ).

--Vice president (and president-elect), Social Science History Association (2005-7).

--Editor (with J.A. Davis), Journal of Modern Italian Studies (1994- ).

--Editor (with D. Hogan) of “New Perspectives in Anthropological and Social Demography” book series, Cambridge University Press (1996- ).

--Editor (with William Beeman) of "Key Issues" and "Anthropology &..." book series, Berghahn Books (1995- ).

--Editorial board, Journal of Family History, The History of the Family (1990- ).

--Editorial board, Continuity and Change (1996-2000).

--Editorial board, International Studies Review (1998- 2002).

--Editorial board, Social Science History (2001-2004; prev. 1987-1996).

--Editor (with David L. Featherman) of "Life Course Studies" book series, University of Wisconsin Press (1984-95).

--Member, National Research Council, Committee on Population (1999-2005).

--Member, German Marshall Fund, Research Support Program, advisory board (2000-2)

--Jury member, Lynton History Prize (Lukas Book Prizes), (2000-1).

--Selection committee, American Academy of Rome, prizes in Classical & Post-Classical studies (2000-1).

--Member, Publications Committee, Social Science History Association (1998-2005).

--Chair, program review committee, Demographic Research and Training program,

Mellon Foundation (1996-98). Mellon Foundation demographic program advisory committee (1999-2000 ).

--President, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 1994-6.

--Member, Executive Board, American Anthropological Association (1995-96).

--Member, Population Review Committee, National Institutes of Health (1996-1999).

CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT BROWN (on leave 2004-5)

--Provost, 2006-

--Coordinator, program in anthropological demography, and member of the executive committee of the Population Studies and Training Center, 1993- .

--Chair, Search Committee for Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies.

RECENT BROWN ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

--Chair, Department of Anthropology, 2002-2006.

--Chair, Advisory Committee on the Selection of a President, 1997.

--Chair, Task Force on the University/College. Prepared critique of Brown’s Graduate School and set of recommendations on the future of graduate programs at Brown, 1996-97.

--Faculty co-chair, Academic Priorities Committee (university committee involved in reviewing all academic departments and recommending allocation of faculty positions), 2001-3.

--Director, Research Program on Politics, Culture, and Identity of the Watson Institute for

International Studies, 1996-2003 . Responsibility for the creation of one of the four research programs that structure the activities of the Watson Institute.

RESEARCH AND TRAINING GRANTS:

2004-7: Principal investigator, “Explaining Very Low Fertility,” National Institutes of Health ($798,000.).

2004-6: Principal investigator, “Explaining Very Low Fertility,” National Science Foundation ($253,000.).

2002-3: Co-director, NEH Summer Seminar for University and College Teachers, “New Perspectives on Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento,” held at the American Academy in Rome, summer 2003.

2002-4 Co-principal investigator, “Russia’s New Experiment in Power Sharing: Self-Determination, National Identity, and the First Russian Census,” Carnegie Corporation, $344,000.

1998-2001 Co-principal investigator, “Recreating National Identity in the States of the Former Soviet Union,” Mellon Foundation ($40,000); NCEEER ($60,000).

1996-98 Principal investigator, “The Lives of Abandoned Children,” National Science Foundation ($150,000.).

1995-96 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers ($30,000.).

1994 Principal investigator, "Conference on Anthropological Demography," Funded by NICHD ($31,398) and NIA ($5,000).

1990-91 Principal investigator, "Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy," NSF ($50,000.).

1989-90 Organizer of conference on "The Historical Demography of Aging." Funded by the National Institute on Aging ($39,408.).

1988 Co-organizer (with Richard Saller) of conference on "The Historical Roots of the Western Family." Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study Center), the Wenner-Gren Foundation ($10,000.), and NEH ($10,000).

1986-1988 Principal investigator, "Coresidential Dynamics among Italian Sharecroppers," NSF ($110,000.).

1986-1987 Guggenheim Fellowship.

1984-1986 Principal investigator, "Longitudinal Perspectives on Demographic Behavior," NICHD ($349,000.).

1982-1983 Principal investigator, continuation grant, "Household Dynamics in Longitudinal Perspective," NICHD ($148,000.)

1982-1983 Grant to support fellowship at Center for Advanced Study, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

1980 Research grant, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Catania, Italy.

1980 Summer Institute on Life-Span Human Development, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.

1979-1982 Principal investigator, "Household Dynamics in Longitudinal Perspective," NICHD, ($254,000.).

1975-1977 Principal investigator, "Social Change in an Urbanizing Italian Parish," National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, ($30,000.).

1975-76 Co-principal investigator, "Dynamics of Age Stratification: The Latuka in Transition," Russell Sage Foundation.

1974 NIH postdoctoral Summer Institute in Population. Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill.

Other Activities

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Manuscript reviewer for Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, Berg Publishers, University of Arizona Press, Penn State Press, Routledge Press, Central European University Press, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Current Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology, Comparative Urban Research, Journal of Family History, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Anthropology, Signs, American Anthropologist, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Demography, Ethnohistory, Journal of Gerontology, International Review of Social History, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, The Gerontologist, Sex Roles, Journal of Ritual Studies, Man, Social Science and Medicine, Social History of Medicine, American Journal of Sociology; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Polis.

Guest lectures: Columbia, SUNY Binghampton, University of Bologna, Brown, Princeton, University of Palermo, Stanford, Nevada--Reno, Rochester, Wisconsin--Madison, European University (Florence), Harvard, Michigan--Ann Arbor, Cornell, Wesleyan, Ecole Française de Rome, University of Bari, Dickinson College (Bologna), Brandeis, Cambridge, Washington University, NYU, Sorbonne, University of Amsterdam, University of Nijmegen, Trinity College, Johns Hopkins (Bologna SAIS, and Baltimore), University of Stockholm, University of Linkoping, Indiana University, Boston University, University of Maine, University of Massachusetts, Rhode Island School of Design; University of Rome-Sapienza, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), University of Venice; University of California, Berkeley; University of Detroit; Dartmouth; Arizona State; Stonehill College; Northwestern; Central Florida; University of Washington.

Previous NIH study sections:

Social Sciences and Population Study Section (SSP), June 1979, and February, 1981.

Special study section, NIA, May, 1981, & February 1982, NICHD, May 1984.

Member, SSP study section (1984-1988).

Chair, SSP Study Section meeting on Academic Research Enhancement Awards, Bethesda, 1985.

Member, NICHD site review team, UC-Berkeley, January, 1990.

Member, special study section, April 1991.

Chair, Behavioral Medicine special Study Section, July, 1988.

Member, special study section on intergenerational relations, January, 1989.

Member, review committee of the five-year plan of NICHD Demographic and Behavioral Sciences branch, December 1993.

Member, special study section on Hispanic child health, NICHD, April, 1994.

Special member, SSP study section, NIH, June, 1995.

Special study section, NICHD, March, 2006.

 

Consultant, United Nations University (Tokyo), 1983-1988.

Grant reviewer for NSF, NEH, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Chairman of symposia/sessions: Population and Migration (American Anthropological Association annual meeting 1976); Anthropological Perspectives on Italian Society (Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting 1977); Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe (American Anthropological Association annual meeting 1977).

Organizer (with Jennie Keith) of workshop on Age and Anthropological Theory, sponsored by National Institute on Aging, March 26-27, 1981. Bethesda, MD.

Nominating Committee, Conference Group on Italian Politics, 1981.

Nominating Committee, Social Science History Association, 1982-83.

Organizer, Chairman and discussant, symposium on New Perspectives in Demographic Anthropology, International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Science, Vancouver, 1983.

Consultant, workshop on life-course methods for household and gender research, United Nations University, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 10-17, 1983. Consultant, U.N. University, Rio de Janeiro and Bogota, December, 1983; Colombo, May, 1984, Rio de Janeiro, December 1984; Santo Domingo, February 1985; Nairobi, January 1986; China, June-July 1986; Ivory Coast, January 1987.

Discussant, "Recent research in Iberian family history and historical demography," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October, 1983.

Discussant, "New Directions for Anthropological Research in Italy," annual meeting of the AAA, Denver, 1984.

Nominations committee (1984-85) and Predoctoral Fellowship committee (1988), Council for European Studies, 1984-85.

Co-chair of program committee, Social Science History Association (for 1985 annual meeting, Chicago).

Chair, panel on "Anthropology and History," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, 1985.

Organizer and chair, presidential thematic session, "The Development of the 'Modern Family': Toward a Convergence of Sociological, Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, September, 1986.

Series of five lectures on "I riti politici e la lotta per il potere," Facoltà di Magistero, University of Bologna, May, 1987.

Consultant to Portuguese family study group, sponsored by SSRC, Chicago, September, 1987.

Organizer (with John Meyer and K. Warner Schaie), conference on "Comparative Perspectives on Age Structuring in Human Societies," Pennsylvania State University, October, 1987.

Chair, Behavioral Medicine special Study Section, NIH, April, 1988.

Member, Steering Committee, Council for European Studies, 1984-88.

Executive Committee, Social Science History Association, 1987-89.

Organizer and Discussant, session on "Politics and Ritual, Anthropology and History," annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 1988.

Discussant, session on "Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Household and Family in Southern Europe," American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, November, 1988.

Member, Nominating Committee, Society for the Anthropololgy of Europe, 1989.

Member, program committee, Council for European Studies, 1989-90.

Organizer (with Richard Saller), Conference on the Historical Roots of the Western Family, Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Italy, June, 1989.

Discussant, session on "Pilgrimage in the European tradition," American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1989.

Discussant, session on "Anthropological Perspectives on European Politics," American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 1989.

Organizer (with Dennis Hogan) of session on "Intergenerational relations," at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New Orleans, February, 1990.

Discussant, session on "Arenas of Struggle: Workplace, Community, Family," Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., 1990.

Chair, special study section of the Social Sciences and Population study section, NIH, April 1990.

Organizer, Conference on the Historical Demography of Aging, Maine, 1990.

Chair and discussant, session on "Household and Family in Old Age," Social Science History Association, New Orleans, October, 1991.

Discussant, session on "Remembrance and Reconstruction of the European Left," AAA, Chicago, November 1991.

Organizer and chair, plenary session of 1991 meeting of the American Anthropological Association: "The Impact of Nationalism and Ethnicity on Europe's Emerging Order."

Chair and discussant, session on "Conceptualizing National Entities," Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March, 1992.

Editorial board, Historical Methods (1989-1992).

Organizer, session on "The social and economic consequences of household structure," XXII General Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Montreal, August, 1993.

Nominating Committee, Social Science History Assoc., 1991-92, 1993-94.

Chair and discussant, "Comparative urban class formation," Social Science History Association, Baltimore, Nov. 1993.

Advisory Committee for Italian Studies, Fondazione Agnelli 1989-92.

Organizer and co-chair, "What should anthropologists do about the crisis in the former Yugoslavia," annual meetings of the AAA, 1993.

Chair, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Committee on the Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia.

Discussant, two sessions at the Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, April, 1994: "Family Policy and Working Mothers," and "Redefining Membership in the Collectivity."

Discussant, session on Demographic Determinants of Household Structure, Population Association of America, San Francisco, April, 1995.

Discussant, SSRC conference on Democracy and Cultural Change in the New Southern Europe, Crete, July, 1995.

Executive Committee, Conference Group Italian Politics & Society 1989-95.

Anthropology Advisory Committee, Fulbright Scholar awards, 1993-95.

Deputy Editor, Demography (1993-5).

Discussant, “Ritual and Politics in the Renaissance,” annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January, 1997.

Discussant, “Combining qualitative and quantitative data in demographic studies,” annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., March, 1997.

Discussant, "Conceptualizing Europe in the 21st Century," annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1997.

Discussant, session “Catholicism in postwar Europe,” annual meetings of the American Historical Association, January 1998.

Chair, session on Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods in Demographic Research,” annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Chicago, April 1998.

Discussant, Roundtable on Fate and Fortune in Rural China, annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Chicago, April 1998.

Member, external review committee, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

Discussant, session on Historical Demography, annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1998.

Discussant, session on the History of Italian Sharecropping, annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1998.

Chair, session “Toward a Critical Anthropology of Population,” annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December, 1998.

Discussant, session “Family Systems and Reproductive Strategizing,” annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December, 1998.

Chair, session “Family systems and reproduction in historical and anthropological perspective,” annual meetings of the PAA, New York City, March 1999.

Discussant, session “Religion, ideology, and methods of fertility control,” annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New York City, March 1999.

Panelist, roundtable on “The Past and Future of Family History and Historical Demography,” annual meetings of the Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October 2000.

Organizer and Chair, session “Anthropological Demography,” annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., March 2001.

Discussant, “The Russian Census of 2002,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, April 2004.

Discussant, session “Immigrants and the practice of citizenship,” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 2005.