Griffiths Research Award
The Office of Research is pleased to invite all full-time faculty in The Steinhardt School to apply for the Griffiths Research Award. The Award was established in 1983 to commemorate a former Dean of our School, Daniel E. Griffiths, who, as Dean and Scholar, was committed to the advancement of knowledge through research. A list of previous recipients is attached.
The Award, given annually in the amount of $1,000, recognizes faculty members for their research in advancing their fields of knowledge and professional practice. The 2008 Award will be given to that faculty member or collaborating group of members whose research best meets the following criteria:
- The research has the potential to make a major contribution to the field of the applicant.
- The research represents an innovative breakthrough or major advancement in terms of knowledge, method, design, theory, or practice.
- The research has been published or accepted for publication over the calendar years 2006-2008.
For the 2008 competition, we will be considering the following scholarly works: books, book chapters, and journal articles.
All faculty who are eligible for this award are encouraged to apply. The awardee(s) may be invited to make a presentation of the research during the following academic year at a Steinhardt faculty meeting.
In 2004, the Griffiths Committee inaugurated the Carras Award to honor promising junior faculty research. Junior faculty are encouraged to apply for the Griffiths Award and, thereby, be considered for both. A list of previous recipients also is below.
Please submit an electronic copy (for chapters and journal articles) and 3 copies (for books) of the scholarly work to the committee for review. In addition to this published work, the applicant should submit a statement of no more than 250 words that provides a framework for the significance of the work within the applicant's field of expertise. Applications should be sent to Paris Mourgues in the Office of Research via email at pm61@nyu.edu by Monday, March 31, 2008.
Submissions will be reviewed by faculty members using a peer review process.
Griffiths Award Recipients: 1993 – Present
2007
Selcuk Sirin - Department of Applied Psychology
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta - Analytic Review of Research
2006
Siva Vaidhyanathan - Department of Culture and Communication
The Anarchist in the Library
2005
Christine McWayne - Department of Applied Psychology
Preschool Competency in Context: An Investigation of the Unique Contribution of Child Competencies to Early Academic Success
2004
Marion Nestle - Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism
2003
Jane Ashdown and Barbara Hummel-Rossi - Departments of Teaching and Learning & Applied Psychology
The State Cost - Benefit and Cost - Effective Analyses in Education
2002
Joshua Aronson - Department of Applied Psychology
The Malleability of Implicit Theories about Human Malleability: Reducing the Effects of Stereotype Threat on African American College Students by Shaping Theories of Intelligence
2001
Arvind Rajagopal - Department of Culture and Communication
Politics After Television: Hindi Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public
2000
Perry N. Halkitis - Department of Applied Psychology
Masculinity in the Age of AIDS: HIV - seropositive Gay Men and the ‘Buff Agenda'
1999
Jonathan Zimmerman - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
"Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public School"; "Storm over the Schoolhouse: Popular Curriculum Wars in America, 1890 - 1990"
1998
Amy Bentley - Department of Nutrition and Food Studies
Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity
1997
Joel Westheimer – Department of Teaching and Learning
Among Schoolteachers: Community, Autonomy, and Ideology in Teachers' Work
1996
Lawrence Ferrara – Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
Schopenhauer on Music as the Ebodiment of Will
1995
Theresa Jordan - Department of Applied Psychology
Combining Decision Analysis and Experimental Data to Study Bias in Educational Settings
1994
Sharon Weinberg – Department of Teaching and Learning
Care and Justice Moral Reasoning
1993
Catherine Tamis-Lemonda – Department of Applied Psychology
Children's Exploratory, Non-Symbolic, and Symbolic Play: An Explanatory Multidimensional Framework
1992
Robert Rowe - Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
Real-Time Musical Feature Analysis and Related Response
1991
William Schiff - Department of Applied Psychology
Aging Person's Estimates of Vehicular Motion
No Recipients between 1986 – 1990
1985
Robert Landy - Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
The Developing of Distancing Theory in Drama Therapy