Participant Profiles

Taking the Measure of Culture:
A Meeting at Princeton University, June 7– June 8, 2002

Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and hosted by the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Kelly J. Barsdate is the Director of Research, Policy and Evaluation at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), where she has worked since 1991. Barsdate directs the association's planning, survey and research protocols, including the National Standard for Arts Information Exchange. She manages several interagency research initiatives with the National Governors' Association, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics. She consults extensively in the arts field. Recent publication credits include "Information Sources for State-Level Arts Policy: Current Resources and Future Needs," A Strategic Planning Toolkit (co-author), A Performance Measurement Toolkit, Measuring Your Arts Economy and "Toward a National Arts Database." Prior to NASAA, Barsdate was part of the research team at Educational Research Services, Inc.

Tom Bradshaw is Director of Research at the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA Research Division, which he heads, collects and analyses information on trends and conditions in the arts. Over the last two decades the Division has conducted four national surveys of arts participation and published thirty-nine research reports and seventy-three research notes covering a variety of cultural policy research subjects including analyses of statistics on artists, arts organizations, and arts participation. Prior to joining the Endowment in 1977, Tom was a senior economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His labor economics articles have been published in the Monthly Labor Review and the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. His work in cultural economics has been published in several cultural research publications including the Journal of Cultural Economics.

Arthur C. Brooks is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Affairs, where he teaches courses on nonprofit management and economics. His research focuses on cultural policy, nonprofit
organizations, and philanthropy. Formerly, he was Associate Principal French Horn with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.

Paul DiMaggio is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Research Director for Princeton’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1979 and taught at Yale until moving to Princeton in 1992. His interests include the sociology of art and culture, the study of complex organizations, social stratification, network analysis, and economic sociology.

Jeffrey Edelstein is a doctoral candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on a variety of attempts to engage the visual and performing arts to redress social ills. He has worked at the Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago) and The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), published art criticism in a variety of professional and popular journals, and currently contributes to Fitzroy Dearborn's "Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography.”

Claude Fischer is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. He is the author, among other books, of To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City; America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940; and co-author of Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. He is currently working on two books concerning the social history of America. Fischer is also executive editor of Contexts magazine, a new publication of the American Sociological Association.

Marian A. Godfrey has been Program Director for Culture at The Pew Charitable Trusts since 1989. Previously, Ms. Godfrey was Manager of the theater collaborative Mabou Mines, for which she also produced a feature film, "Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power" (1980 86); Instructor in Drama at New York University Tisch School of the Arts (1980 87); Director of Development for Dance Theater Workshop (1983 85); and Managing Director of Ensemble Studio Theater (1977 80). She received her MFA in Theater Administration from the Yale School of Drama in 1975 and BA magna cum laude in English Literature from Radcliffe in 1970. Ms. Godfrey currently serves on the boards of Grantmakers in the Arts (1995-present; chair, 2000-present) and the Maine College of Art (2002-present).

Henry S. Horn is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and second bass in the Chapel Choir, at Princeton University. He studies the ecology and behavior of birds, butterflies, and trees, and he teaches any course that his department needs but that no one else wants to teach. An alter-ego is J. Chester Farnsworth, a locally acclaimed artist, who
specializes in satirical environmental constructions of discarded computer parts, satirical wood carvings, and fraudulent religious artifacts. The less said about other alter-egos, the better.

Maria Rosario Jackson is a senior research associate and director of the Urban Institute's Culture, Creativity and Communities Program. She also currently serves as principal investigator for the Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project and Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists. Over the course of her career, Dr. Jackson's research has been focused on urban policy, urban poverty, community planning, the role of arts and culture in community building processes and the politics of race, ethnicity and gender in urban settings. She has also participated in research efforts on youth crime prevention, urban parks, housing de-segregation and multi-cultural teacher education. Dr. Jackson earned a master's degree in public administration and community development from the University of Southern California and a doctorate in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stanley N. Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He received his M.A. from Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He has recently co-edited a book on the behavior of non-governmental peace and conflict resolution organizations in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and South Africa. Other recent research has focused upon private philanthropy and its effect on public policy in the United States. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Mr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history.

Randall Mason is Assistant Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture. Trained in geography, history and urban planning, he worked previously at the Getty Conservation Institute, researching economic and social issues relating to heritage conservation. In addition, he is a partner in the nonprofit research and consulting firm Minerva Partners, which develops projects to strengthen the connections between heritage conservation and social development.

Lawrence T. McGill is director of research and planning for the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) at Princeton University, the country’s first digital archive of research data on the arts and culture. Prior to coming to Princeton, McGill was director of research for The Freedom Forum, the Media Studies Center and manager of news audience research at NBC. McGill has taught at the Medill School of Journalism and in the department of sociology at Northwestern University and served on the research faculty of Northwestern’s Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Northwestern University, holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma and has published articles and reports in the fields of media studies, education and sociology.

Jesse Mintz-Roth is research assistant with the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA). He is currently working on a project studying conflict over Rave music in Chicago. In June 2001, he completed his BA in Public Policy and Geography at the University of Chicago, where he also worked for the National Opinion Research Center. In the fall of 2002 he will begin as an MCP candidate at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Michael Moore joined the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund in 1994. As program director, he is responsible for the planning and implementation of program, evaluation and communication efforts to support the work of leading organizations in the performing, visual and traditional arts. Prior to joining the Fund, Moore was the Deputy Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also has consulted for the National Endowment for the Arts, state arts agencies, private corporations and family foundations. Moore has lectured and taught university level courses in the studio arts, public policy and management. He has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Fort Wright College in Spokane, Wash.

Heidi Rettig joined the Knight Foundation in November 2001. Previously, she worked for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., as a research associate on the evaluation of the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds' Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation Initiative. She also served as a research associate at Edinburgh College of Art in the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, School of Planning and Housing. Rettig earned a master's of science degree in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.

Gabriel Rossman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He specializes in the production of culture and has written papers on the influence of ownership on movie reviews in newspapers and the role of the nonprofit sector in the support of popular music. He is also interested in economic sociology, demography, social stratification, and both statistical and ethnographic methodologies.

Bruce A. Seaman is president of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, and is affiliated with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, and formerly the Federal Trade Commission. His did his graduate work at the University of Chicago.

Joan Shigekawa is Associate Director for Creativity & Culture at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she manages five national and international programs. Prior to that Ms. Shigekawa was the founding Director of the Arts Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York, and Coordinating Producer of the Production Laboratory of the Program for Art on Film, a joint venture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Ms. Shigekawa has 20 years' experience in film, television and the theater, and has served as an arts advisor for a broad range of projects in the visual, performing and media arts.

Burton Singer is Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1967. His research interests include epidemiology of tropical diseases, demography and economics of aging, health and social consequences of economic development, the interrelationships between genetics and historical demography. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education for the National Research Council, the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Mario Luis Small, a Research Associate at Princeton's Office of Population Research, will be joining the Sociology Department in the fall. He is currently working on a book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in an Urban Barrio, about community participation in a Boston housing project.

Jeffrey K. Smith is Professor of Educational Psychology at Rutgers University; he has been at Rutgers since 1976 and will become chair of the department in July, 2002. He is also head of the Office of Research and Evaluation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a position he has held since 1988. His research focuses on visitor behavior in museums, including learning, motivations, and the economic impact of museums; he also conducts research on psychological factors influencing test performance.

Mark J. Stern is Professor of Social Welfare and History and the Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been the principal investigator of the Social Impact of the Art Program since 1994. In addition to his research on culture and communities, he is collaborating with Michael B. Katz on a history of the 20th century as reflected in the U. S. censuses, a project funded by the
Russell Sage Foundation.

Elizabeth Strom is assistant professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research examines the use of cultural strategies as vehicles of downtown
development. Her earlier work studied urban development in Berlin following German reunification (Building the New Berlin, Lexington 2001) and she has published articles in Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, European Urban and Regional Studies, German Politics and Society. Strom has received fellowships from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science Research Council.

Ann Swidler is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. She is co-author of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life and The Good Society; co-author of Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, and author of Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools and Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. Her current project is the study of institutional responsiveness to the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Steven J. Tepper is deputy director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has written about sociology of art, cultural policy and democracy and public space and is currently completing a book on cultural conflict in 75 American cities. Tepper received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bruce Western is professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His research interests broadly include political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology. More specifically, he has studied how institutions shape labor market outcomes. Work in this area has developed along two tracks -- the growth and decline of labor unions and their economic effects in the United States and Europe; and second, the impact of the American penal system on labor market inequality. His methodological work has focused on the application of Bayesian statistics to research problems in sociology.

Catherine Wichterman was appointed Program Officer for the Performing Arts at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in November, 1996. She develops and manages the Foundation’s national grant programs in music, theater, opera, and dance. Prior to her appointment at the Mellon Foundation, Ms. Wichterman served for two years as president of Meet the Composer and as executive director of the Richmond Symphony (1990-95), the Long Island Philharmonic (1986-90), and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (1984- 86). Ms. Wichterman received her Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of Illinois in 1970 and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974.

Blair Wheaton is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Human Development, Life Course, and Aging at the University of Toronto. Wheaton received his doctorate in Sociology and Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1976. He taught at Yale University for ten years, before taking a position at McGill in Montreal and then joining the University of Toronto in 1989. His research focuses on stress and mental health, and currently emphasizes life course and contextual effects on mental health. Wheaton won the "Best Publication" Award in 1995 from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association, and the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health in 2000.

Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research has focused on the psychology of the arts, the relationship between arts and academic learning, and the development of giftedness in the arts.

Margaret Wyszomirski is a faculty member of both the Department of Art Education and the School of Public Policy and Management at Ohio State University and Director of the school’s Arts Policy and Administration Program. She has served as staff director for the bipartisan Independent Commission on the National Endowment for the Arts, as director of the Office of Policy Planning, Research and Budget at the National Endowment for the Arts, and as director of the Graduate Public Policy Program at Georgetown University. She joined the faculty of the Federal Executive Institute of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 1988. She was a founding member of the Research Advisory Committee of the American Council for the Arts, and was chairman of the steering committee for the 1997 American Assembly on "The Arts and the Public Purpose."