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John Cacioppo is the co-author with William Patrick of the influential Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, published by W. W. Norton. Nature commended the book as “a strong message for the lay reader about the importance of social interaction and the feeling that you are part of the social fabric of your society.”

John died unexpectedly in 2018. He was the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago and the Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.John’s research investigates the social and neural mechanisms underlying complex human behavior through an approach termed social neuroscience. There have been important advances in our understanding of the links between the mind, brain, and behavior over the past century, but it has been conventional to conceptualize individuals as somewhat isolated units of analysis. Social neuroscience represents an interdisciplinary approach devoted to understanding how biological systems implement social processes and behavior and to using biological concepts and methods to inform and refine theories of social processes and behavior.

Among John’s many honors, he received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the Donald Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

 

 

Andrew Cayton held the Warner Woodring Chair in the department of history at the Ohio State University. Previously, he had been University Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, where he taught for twenty five years.

Born in Cincinnati in 1954, Drew earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia before receiving his PhD from Brown University, where he studied under Gordon Wood. He contributed to the profession in numerous ways, including serving as President of SHEAR in 2011-12 and the Ohio Academy of History in 2015. A frontier history pioneer, his most recent work was Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818, published by the Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press in 2013.

Together with Fred Anderson, Drew was the author of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000, published by Viking. Dominion of War was a History Book Club Selection; named a Washington Post Best Book of 2005 and a 2005 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. His other books include Love in the Time of Revolution, published by UNC Press and Ohio: The History of a People; Frontier Indiana; and Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825, which was published by Ohio State University Press. He was co-editor, with Fredrika J. Teute of Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi; with Susan Gray of The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History; and with Stuart Hobbs, The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic.

His essays and reviews appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post Sunday Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and The Great Plains Quarterly.

Jean Egmon is Clinical Prof of Management; Director Collaborative Practices, at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and the president of Third Angle, Inc. Jean’s teaching and consulting focuses on the design and leadership of environments for innovation, with a focus on strategic integration of knowledge and ideas across a company’s value network.

She is the co-author, with Bill Welter, of The Prepared Mind of a Leader, published by Jossey Bass. Jean’s research includes the use of adaptive leadership and cognitive strategies in turnaround companies and more recently the use of those strategies for innovation. She uses an interdisciplinary approach in understanding strategies of knowledge brokering, leadership, motivation, macro-cognition and complexity.

At Third Angle, Inc., Jean and her colleagues work with technical and business leaders to help them and their organizations to reframe their relationships, work practices and strategies in order to encourage innovation, increase engagement of stakeholders and integrate initiatives. Third Angle’s clients include Accenture, American College of Chest Physicians, Bank of America, Boeing, Equity Office Properties, General Electric and United Airlines.

 

Kathryn Edin is the co-author, with H. Luke Shaefer, of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $2 a Day was awarded the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and was shortlisted for the Robert F Kennedy Book Award.

Her other books include Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, written with Maria J. Kefalas.  Published by the University of California Press, the book is the winner of the William G Goode Book Award.

One of the nation’s leading poverty researchers, Kathy is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. She serves on the Department of Health and Human Services advisory committee for the poverty research centers at Michigan, Wisconsin, and Stanford. A founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy, she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in 2014.

Elizabeth Fenn is the author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History. Published by Hill and Wang, it tells the story of the spectacular rise and equally spectacular collapse of the Mandan Indians in the first century after European contact.

Lil’s first book, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, was also published by Hill and Wang. It unearthed the devastating effects of a terrible smallpox epidemic that coursed across the North American continent during the years of the American Revolution. Pox Americana was awarded three prizes, including the 2002 James J. Broussard First Book Prize (Society for Historians of the Early Republic), the 2003 Longman-History Today Book of the Year award, and the 2004 Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize.

She is professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studies the early American West, focusing on epidemic disease, Native American, and environmental history.