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  A History of ASA (2005), Appendix 26  
     
 
Appendix 26

The Spivack Program:
Congressional Fellows

 

The Congressional Fellowship Program, a component of the Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy, included the following Fellows:

  • Catherine White Berheide (Skidmore College), Office of Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) (1992)
  • Peter Cookson (Adelphi University), Senate Subcommittee on Education, Labor, and Human Relations (1993)
  • Jill Quadagno (Florida State University), the President's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform (1994)
  • Richard J. Gelles (University of Rhode Island), House Subcommittee on Human Resources and the Senate Subcommittee on Youth Violence (1996)
  • Nora Jacobson (Johns Hopkins University), Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Human Relations, and Education (1997)
  • Lois Monteiro (Brown University), House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs (1998)
  • Susan Rachel Gragg (University of Washington), Office of Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) (1999)
  • George Dowdall (St. Joseph's University), Office of Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) (2000)
  • Larry Burmeister (University of Kentucky), Office of Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) (2001)
  • Joyce Iutcovich (Keystone University Research Corp.), Office of Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
  • Susan Dimock (University of California-San Diego), Office of Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) (2002)
  • Marjorie Schaafsma (University of Chicago), Senate Democratic Policy Committee (2003-4)
  • Tomás Jiménez (Harvard University), Office of Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) (2005)

[Note: Through the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD), ASA also supported three Congressional Fellows in 1983–84: Carol Weiss (Harvard University) and William R. Freudenburg (Washington State University) were appointed Congressional Fellows in 1983, and Raymond Russell received a fellowship in 1984 at the General Accounting Office (GAO).]