2005
Building Geographic Management Systems:
Tackling Critical Policy Needs for the Nation’s Future --executive summary
Douglas Richardson, Executive Director, Association of American Geographers
Geographic Management Systems: Critical Infrastructure Issues for Governments and Citizens
Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Deploying Spatial Intelligence in a Globalizing World: The Way Forward
Akhlaque Haque, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Strengthening Communities and Local Government Decision Making Using Geographic Information Systems
David Cowen, University of South Carolina
Beyond Mapping: Institutional and Technical Issues in Geographic Information Science
Protecting Privacy:
How Much Are We Willing to Give Up?--executive summary
Sandra Petronio, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis;
Paradoxes of Privacy: Health and Security Policy Implications
Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University and former Director, U.S. Census Bureau;
Privacy and Information Collection: Impacts on Public Policy
Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School;
The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age
Transforming the Middle East: The Future for Democracy and Economic Growth --executive summary
Lisa Anderson, Columbia University
Transitioning to Democracy: The Future of Governance in the Middle East
Mark Tessler, University of Michigan
Attitudes toward Democracy in the Arab World
Tarik Yousef, Georgetown University
Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East
2004
Detecting Deception: Research to Secure the Homeland--executive summary
Howard
Silver, Mark Frank, Charles Bond, and Judee Burgoon
Photo by Charles Votaw
Judee Burgoon, University of Arizona
Automating Detection of Deception and Hostile Intent
Charles F. Bond, Texas Christian University
International Deception
Mark Frank, Rutgers University
Practical Approaches to Detecting Deception in Counter-Terrorism
Risk and Crisis Communication: Building Trust and Explaining Complexities When Emergencies Arise--executive summary
H. Dan O’Hair, University of Oklahoma
Measuring Risk/Crisis Communication: Taking Strategic Assessment and
Program Evaluation to the Next Level
Havidan Rodriguez, University of Delaware
The Role of the Science, Technology and Media in the Communication of
Risk Warnings
Katherine Rowan, George Mason University
Risk and Crisis Communication: Earning Trust and Productive
Partnering with the Media and Public During Emergencies
Growing Old in an Aging America:The Health and Retirement Study’s Window Into the Future--executive summary
David Weir, University of Michigan
HRS Meets the Challenge of an Aging Society
Robert J. Willis, University of Michigan
Will the Boomers be working or retiring in 2010? And why do we care?
Michael Hurd, RAND Corporation
Saving for Retirement: Consumption of the Elderly and Bequests to the
Next Generation
Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago
The Importance of Family for Older Americans
Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan
The Burden of Dementia in an Aging Population
2003
Obesity, What Can Be Done Now? Examining Environment and Life Style--executive summary
Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fighting the Obesity Epidemic: Environmental and Related Issues
Sally Davis, University of New Mexico
Prevention of Obesity in Children – Benefits and Challenges
Thomas Wadden, University of Pennsylvania
Advances in the Treatment of Obesity
Enhancing Educational Performance: Social, Motivational, and Cultural Factors--executive summary
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University
What Doesn’t Meet the Eye: Understanding and Addressing Racial
Disparities in High-Achieving Suburban Schools
Rebecca Marcon, University of North Florida
Differential Factors Affecting Young Children’s Educational Performance
Patricia O’Reilly, University of Cincinnati
Including Girls in the Education Mainstream
Rebuilding the World Community:Global Institutions and Interactions in an Era of Terrorism --executive summary
Beth Simmons, Harvard University
Collective Problems, Collective Responses:
International Organizations and U.S. Interests in an Era of Terrorism
Linda Putnam, Texas A&M University
Framing and Transforming Issues in Global Negotiations and
Interactions Among Leaders
Lael Brainard, Brookings Institution
U.S. International Economic Leadership Post-Cancun
2002
Welfare, Children and Families: Results from a Three City Study--executive summary
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Employment and Income
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Northwestern University
Welfare Reform and Children
Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University
Welfare Reform and Marriage
Ronald J. Angel, University of Texas, Austin
Health Care Coverage Among Poor Families
The Genetic Revolution and the Meaning of Life:How Will Society Respond to the Explosion of Knowledge --executive summary
Troy Duster, New York University
The Intersection of Molecular Genetics, Race, and Criminal Justice
Dorothy Nelkin, New York University
Emerging Legal and Social Issues in the Genetic Age
Susan Weller, University of Texas Medical Branch
The Intra- and Inter-Cultural Variation in Medical Beliefs
Ethnicity and Religion in International Politics:The Middle East, the Balkans, and India-Pakistan--executive summary
Susan Woodward, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Lessons Learned from the Balkans
Devin Hagerty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Indo-Pakistani Dispute Over Kashmir
William Quandt, University of Virginia
The Drift Toward War with Iraq
2001
The Mechanics of Election Reform: From Registration to Results --executive summary
Michael Traugott, University of Michigan
Alternative Methods of Voting: Mail, Internet, Unrestricted Absentees
David Woods, Ohio State University
Human Factors and the Technology of Voting
Charles H. Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT-Cal Tech Project on Easy Use of Voting Machines
Rodolfo O. de la Garza, University of Texas at Austin
Promoting Equal Access to the Electoral System
Living Longer, Staying Well: Promoting Good Health for Older Americans--executive summary
Mark D. Hayward, Penn State University
Truncated Lives and Worse Health: The Plight of African Americans and the Economically Disadvantaged
Toni P. Miles, University of Texas, San Antonio
Chronic Disease and Ties That Bind
Frank Stafford, University of Michigan
Building Retirement Wealth Over the Life Course:
Who Does, Who Doesn’t and Why?
Rural and Community Prosperity --executive summary
Cornelia Flora, Iowa State University
Community Social Capacity
Diane McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University
Rural Families: Prospects for Prosperity
Mike Woods, Oklahoma State University
Economic Development Options and Opportunities for Rural Communities
The Ford Seminars 1994-2000
2000
Language and Learning--executive summary
Maria Estela Brik, Professor of Education, Boston College
Lily Wong Filmore, Professor, School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
William Labov, Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, Director of the Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
John Baugh, Professor of Education and Linguistics, Stanford University
Donna Christian, President, Center for Applied Linguistics, Moderator
Controlling Violence in America --executive summary
Alfred Blumstein, University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Laura Dugan, Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University
How Neighborhoods Matter:
The Value of Investing at the Local Level--executive summary
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Sociology at New York University
Robert J. Sampson, Lucy Flower Professor in Sociology at the University of Chicago and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation,
Min Zhou, Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory D. Squires, Professor of Sociology, George Washington University
1999
Is Welfare Reform Working? The Impact of Economic Growth and Policy Changes --executive summary
Sheldon Danziger, Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan
Robert Moffitt, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
LaDonna Pavetti, Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Not What the Doctor Ordered: Challenges Individuals Face in Adhering to Medical Advice/Treatment --executive summary
Margaret Chesney, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Noel J. Chrisman, Professor of Community Health and Nursing, University of Washington
Karen Luftey, Doctoral Student in Psychology, Indiana University
Bernice Pescosolido, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
Norman Anderson, Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health, Moderator
Do Americans Care About and Trust Their Government --executive summary
The Honorable David Price, U.S. House of Representatives, Moderator
John Hibbing, Professor Political Science, University of Nebraska
Pippa Norris, Associate Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Wendy Rahn, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
1998
Growing Up Poor: The Effects on Achievement, Parenting and Child Care --executive summary
Greg Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Aletha Houston, Professor of Child Development, University of Texas at Austin
Vonnie McCloyd, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
What Do We Know About Adolescent Health? Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health --executive summary
J. Richard Udry, Kenan Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Peter Bearman, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Kathleen Mullan Harris, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
James Jaccard, Professor of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New
York
Information Technology and Social Change --executive summary
Philip Agre, Professor of Communications, University of California, San Diego
Jan English-Lueck, Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
David Hakken, Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York Institute of Technology
1997
Juvenile Crime: A Research Perspective-executive summary
Denise Gottfredson, Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Maryland
Richard Rosenfeld, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Simon Singer, Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo
Using the Census: What It Tells Us About America’s People, Workforce and Small Communities --executive summary
Reynolds Farley, Research Scientist and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Suzanne Bianchi, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
Paul Voss, Professor and Chair of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1996
Fostering Successful Families --executive summary
Andrew Cherlin, Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Susan Hanson, Director of the School of Geography, Clark University.
Fostering Resiliency in Kids --executive summary
Ann Masten, Professor, Child Psychology and Associate Director of the Institute for Child Development, University of Minnesota
Suzanne Randolph, Professor, Department of Family Studies, University of Maryland
Emmy Werner, Research Professor in Child Development, University of California, Davis
Aging Well:Health, Wealth and Retirement--executive summary
F. Thomas Juster, Research Scientist and Professor, Economics, University of Michigan
Raynard Kington, Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation
Olivia Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Beth Soldo, Chair, Department of Demography and Director, Center for Population Research, Georgetown University
1995
Overcoming Poverty: What the Research Demonstrates
Sheldon Danziger, Professor and Director of the Research and Training Program on Poverty, the Underclass, and Public Policy, University of Michigan
James H. Johnson, Jr., E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of Geography, Business and Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Katherine Newman, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Human Capital and a Nation’s Economic Strength
Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science
Charles Schultze, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers for President Jimmy Carter, Moderator
1994
Democratic Transformations: Africa, Latin America, and Russia
James Gibson, Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
Louis Goodman, Dean of the School of International Service, American University.
Richard Joseph, Professor of Political Science, Emory University, Fellow, Jimmy Carter Center
Catherine Rudder, Executive Director, American Political Science Association, Moderator
Earlier Seminars Sponsored by COSSA
1994
A Menaced Society: Is the Crime Bill the Answer?
Doris MacKenzie, University of Maryland
Jerome Skolnick, University of California, Berkeley
Hubert Williams, The Police Foundation
1992
Rural Policies for the 1990s
William Falk, University of Maryland
Cornelia Flora, Virginia Tech
Daryl Hobbs, University of Missouri, Columbia
Ronald Wimberly, North Carolina State University
Strategies for Winning the War on Crime
Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Malcolm Klein, University of Southern California
Andrew Sonner, State’s Attorney, Montgomery County, Maryland
1991
Risk and Protective Factors in Mental and Physical Disorders
William Darrow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sue Ellen Estroff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Richard Veloz, House Select Committee on Aging
International Conflict and Cooperation: Is There a New World Order?
Jonathan Eaton, Boston University
Harold Jacobson, University of Michigan
George Quester, University of Maryland
1990
After the Revolution: Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
James R. Millar, George Washington University
Dan Nelson, Carengie Endowment for International Peace
Robin Remington, University of Missouri, Columbia
Defining and Measuring the Urban Poor: The Presence of a Truly Disadvantaged Underclass
Richard P. Nathan, State University of New York at Albany
Erol Ricketts, Rockefeller Foundation
Isabel Sawhill, Urban Institute
Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Urban Poverty: The Role of Family Structure and Youth-at-Risk
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University
Ronald Mincy, Urban Institute
Richard Munson, Northeast-Midwest Institute
James P. Smith, RAND Coporation
1989
High-Tech Maps: A Policymaker’s Guide to Our Communities, Our Resources, Our Politics
Robert Aangenbrug, Association of American Geographers
John Bossler, Ohio State University
David Cowen, University of South Carolina
Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Nystrom, U.S. Geological Survey
Why Do People Pay Taxes?
John Carroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Betty Jackson, University of Colorado
Richard Lempert, University of Michigan
Daniel Nagin, Carnegie Mellon University
1988
Older Workers in an Aging Society
Richard Burkhauser, Vanderbilt University
Angela O’Rand, Duke University
Harold Sheppard, University of South Florida
Child Care Quality: Its Impact on Children and Families
Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Carole Joffe, Bryn Mawr College
Kathleen McCartney, University of New Hampshire
1987
Revitalizing Rural America in an Economically Competitive World
Edward J. Blakely, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Stinson, University of Minnesota
Gene Summers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Population Trends and Job Opportunities: Is There a Mismatch
John Kasarda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Frank Levy, University of Maryland
Susan Bucknell, Human Services, State of Connecticut
Perspectives on Productivity: Some Under Examined Aspects
Wiliam J. Baumol, Princeton and New York Universities
Martin Neil Baily, Brookings Institution
David Mowery, Carnegie Mellon University
1985
Social, Economic, and Attitudinal Outcomes of Higher Education
Herbert Hyman, Wesleyan University
William Sewell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Paul J. Taubman, University of Pennsylvania
Policy Implications of an Aging Population
Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania
“Children in an Aging Population”
Robert Binstock, Case Western Reserve University
“The Politics and Policy Implications of Population Aging”
Robert Kahn, University of Michigan
“Productive Behavior Through the Life Course”
Who Uses Social Science Research: Its ‘Uptake’ in the Domestic Policy Arena and Commercial Sector
Leo Bogart, Newspaper Advertising Bureau
F. Thomas Juster, University of Michigan
William Morrill, Mathematic Policy Research
1984
Career Criminals and Criminal Careers
Hayden Gregory, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime
Otto Larsen, National Science Foundation
Steven Schlesinger, Bureau of Justice Statistics
James K. Stewart, National Institute of Justice
Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University
1983
Education and Economic Competitiveness Abroad
Fritz Stern, Columbia University
“The Role of Cultural Understanding in U.S.-European Relations”
Michel Oksenberg, University of Michigan
“U.S. Markets in China: The Importance of Understanding the Chinese”
William O. Baker, Chairman of the Board Retired, Bell Laboratories
“Foreign Language Skills as Factors in Economic Competency and World Trade.”
Roberta B. Miller, Moderator
Youth and Unemployment
Representative Paul Simon (D-IL)
William Kornblum, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Unemployment and Stress
Representative Augustus Hawkins (D-CA)
Paula Rayman, Brandeis University
Computers in Education
Representative Al Gore (D-TN), Chairman, House Science and Technology Subcommittee
Marc S. Tucker, Project on Information Technology and Education
1982
Health and Human Behavior
C. David Jenkins, University of Texas Medical Branch
“Social and Behavioral Factors in Cardiovascular Disease”
Marshall Becker, University of Michigan
“The Individual’s Role in Health Care”
Ralph Hingson, Boston University
“Social Science Research and the Response to Alcohol Abuse”
Frederick Robbins, Institute of Medicine
“Social Science, Health, and Behavior”
Sol Levine, Boston University, Moderator
The Economic Crisis and the Federal Statistical System
John J. Casson, American Express Company
Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Courtenay M. Slater, CEC Associates
Katherine Wallman, COPAFS, Moderator
Black Youth Unemployment: A National Crisis
Bernard Anderson, The Rockefeller Foundation
Robert Taggart III, National Council on Employment Policy
Shirley Malcolm, AAAS, Moderator
Our Nation’s Children: The Invisible Constituency
Mary Jo Bane, Harvard University
Donald Hernandez, Georgetown University
Nicholas Zill, Foundation for Child Development
Roberta B. Miller, COSSA, Moderator
1981
Innovation and Productivity: A Human Perspective
William Abernathy, Harvard University
Robert E. Cole, University of Michigan
William G. Ouchi, University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council, Moderator
Work and Retirement in the Middle and Later Years
Robert L. Kahn, University of Michigan
James H. Schultz, Brandeis University
Raymond Thornton, Arkansas State University, Moderator
