Career
Page Contents:
- Honors And Awards
- Positions Held
- Current And Recent Professional Positions
- Current Administrative Positions at Brown
- Recent Brown Administrative Positions
- Research And Training Grants
--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:
--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.
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.