Program in Applied Economics Fellows’ Conference The Program in Applied Economics held its first annual fellows’conference on June 14-17,2001,at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia. Twelve PAE fellows from the 20002001 cohort attended the meeting, along with three economics faculty members and program staff. Over three busy days, the fellows presented their fellowship-supported research and received input from the students and faculty in attendance. Many of the fellows will soon be completing their graduate work, and the conference sought to advise them on a range of relevant issues,including fieldwork,writing research papers and job market strategies.
Participants: Hayward Alker, University of Southern California; Dorothy Denning,Georgetown University;Dieter Ernst,East-West Center; Linda D. Garcia, Georgetown University;Rohan Samarajiva,Delft University of Technology;Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago; Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley; Barry Wellman,University of Toronto. Staff:Robert Latham,Deborah Matzner.
Abe Program Fellows’ Retreat Fifteen Abe fellows and three members of the Abe Fellowship Program Committee participated in the program’s fourth annual fellows’ retreat on January 26-28,2001, on Amelia Island,Florida. The weekend was spent discussing each fellow’s research in small intellectually diverse groups,as
Faculty: Gregory Besharov, Duke University;Ray Fisman,Columbia University Graduate School of Business; Ted Miguel,University of California,Berkeley. Staff:Ashley Timmer, Liam Ristow.
Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security On March 24-25, 2001, the committee of the Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security met to select fellows and plan program events. Six doctoral student fellows and six faculty-level fellows from a variety of fields were selected to participate in the 2001 Summer Research Collegium, the two-month period of research and collaboration to be hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. Fellows will be working on diverse projects,from an ethnographic study of programming labor in a globalized market and a study of the relationship between information technologies and regional development and integration in Eastern Europe to analysis of the use by various actors such as NATO of the internet as a space in which to secure legitimation and authority. The committee will host a weeklong summer institute in July to which it will invite scholars, experts and practitioners who will work with fellows on agendas and methods of research for this emerging field.
well as in one-on-one conversations. A discussion led by committee members James White (political science, University of North Carolina) and Noriko Tsuya (economics, Keio University,Tokyo) on opportunities and challenges of comparative and collaborative research touched on numerous issues including tradeoffs between methodological and theoretical concerns when adding a third case, practical decisions concerning allocation of resources and the audience for comparative research,the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative research and avoiding the pitfalls of collaboration. Staff:Mary McDonnell,Frank Baldwin,Ellen Perecman,Chikako Kobayashi.