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Newsmakers NEW HIRES AND PROMOTIONS Public Leadership Barbara Kellerman has been named James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership. Kellerman’Äôs new book titled, counterintuitively, Followership is due out in January. Tenure Track Archon Fung, associate professor of public policy, has been granted tenure at the Kennedy School. He is the author or co-author of several key books, notably Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy. Great Communicator Melodie Jackson MPA 2001 has been promoted to Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs. Jackson has headed up the strategic communications and website redesign projects. New Post Anne Drazen has been promoted to Associate Dean for Curriculum Development and Support. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Mighty Prize What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality was awarded the American Sociological Association's 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, given to books that make a distinguished contribution to the eradication of racism. Marshall Ganz MPA 1993, lecturer in public policy, shared the honor with Theda Skocpol, dean of the GSAS and Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. Mentorship Rewarded Richard Zeckhauser, professor of political economy, was awarded the inaugural Raymond Vernon Commemorative Award for Mentoring, which was recently established in memory of Raymond Vernon, professor of international affairs and international business management, by his family. Right On The Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice, a project of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, received the 2007 International Award from the International Association of Human Rights Agencies for its "outstanding research and developments in civil and human rights in the United States as well as internationally." Democratizing Energy In November, William Hogan, professor of global energy policy, presented the initial address of the plenary session of the 2007 assembly of the Club de Madrid, where he told participants that striving to make energy more like an ordinary commodity can be an "organizing principle" for energy policy going forward. NEW FELLOWS STUDENTS CENTERS AND PROGRAMS Singapore Chair Ken Winston has been named new Singapore Program faculty chair. Winston will take over from John Thomas MPA 1964, PhD 1969, who helped Singapore establish the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and subsequently led the Kennedy School team supporting it. Intelligent Choice Eric Rosenbach MPP 2004, a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and national security advisor to Senator Chuck Hagel, is the Belfer Center's new executive director of research. Rosenbach replaces Xenia Dormandy MPP 2001, who became director of the Belfer Center Project on India and the Subcontinent. KUDOS
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