SSD alumni news
Alumni: Submit your updates to Nina B. Herbst in SSD at nherbst@uchicago.edu or 773.834.9067.
Carl Q. Christol PhD’41 (Political Science), published International Law and U.S. Foreign Policy (University Press of America, 2009.) Drawing from original sources, Christol emphasizes the significance of the constitutional concept of separation of powers. Christol is the distinguished emeritus professor of international law and political science at the University of Southern California.  In October Gerhard Weinberg, AM’49, PhD’51 (History), received the Tawani Foundation’s 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for outstanding contributions to the writing of American military history. Weinberg is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He accepted the award on October 24 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.  Stephen J. Morewitz, PhD’83 (Sociology), published Death Threats and Violence: New Research and Clinical Perspectives (Springer, 2008.) Morewitz’s book was reviewed in an Author Meets Critics session at the annual Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting, held in San Francisco on August 8.  Juliet Saltman, AM’48 (Sociology), professor emerita of sociology at Kent State University, received the 2009 Civil Rights Hero Award from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Saltman was cited for her work as the volunteer state coordinator of the California Housing Integration Set-Aside task force, which she founded in l990. After ten years of lobbying, the task force secured a unanimous vote from the City Council of San Diego for public funding of a housing mobility program. The program has helped more than 150 low-income families receive security deposits to move to less-concentrated areas.  New York State Governor David A. Paterson appointed Nina M. Moore, AM’89, PhD’98 (Political Science), to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for a four-year term. Moore, associate professor of political science at Colgate University, is the author of Governing Race: Politics, Process, and the Politics of Race (Praeger, 2000) as well as various articles and papers on the Supreme Court and Congress.  Arika Okrent, PhD’04 (Psychology), traced the history of 500 invented languages in her book In the Land of Invented Languages Jacqueline Edelberg, AB’89, AM’91 PhD’96 (Political Science), has cowritten How to Walk to School, a nonfiction work about transforming an underutilized, struggling Chicago elementary school into a vibrant, successful institution. This fall Edelberg spoke on campus about How to Walk to School during a lunch hosted by the Divinity School.