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 below.

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 2009 Award will be given to that faculty member or collaborating group of faculty members whose research best has been published or accepted for publication over the calendar years 2007-2009 and 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.

For the 2009 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 attached.

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 work and addresses the criteria described above. Applications should be sent to Paris Mourgues in the Office of Research via email at pm61@nyu.edu by Monday, March 30th, 2009.

Griffiths Award Recipients: 1993 – Present

2008

Robert Landy - Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions and Applied Psychology
The Couch and the Stage: Integrating Words and Action in Psychotherapy

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