Joel Rogers, professor of law, political science and sociology, and founder and director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), has been named a winner of the UW-Madison's prestigious Hilldale Award. The awards, which were established in 1987, annually recognize excellence in teaching, research and service. Top professors in four university divisions are honored: arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences.
Rogers joined the faculty in 1987 and has often been described as "the Wisconsin Idea in action." COWS, a research and policy center on regional economic development, has used Wisconsin as a test bed for several innovations in development practice that have since become national policy or recognized "best practices." Examples include industry consortia to solve collective action problems in workforce training and modernization; the use of them to promote low-wage workers into family-supporting jobs; and the "high road vs. low road" frame for assessing firm behavior and public development efforts.
Rogers is the author of more than 200 articles and books on democratic theory, American politics and comparative public policy. He is a contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Newsweek recently identified him as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.
Rogers earned a bachelor's degree in economics, philosophy and political science at Yale College, a law degree at Yale Law School, and master's and doctoral degrees in politics at Princeton University.
The other three winners of this year's Hilldale Awards are Judith Walzer Leavitt, the Ruth Bleier WARF professor of medical history, history of science and women's studies; Thomas A. Lipo, W.W. Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines; and Elizabeth Craig, Steenbock Professor of Microbiological Sciences in the Department of Biochemistry.
Submitted by on May 18, 2004
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