2021 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)提名杜克大学(Duke University)公共政策和政治学副教授尼古拉斯·克兰斯(Nicholas Cranes)博士为2021年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖获得者。卡恩斯博士对一系列社会机构如何影响美国的机会和不平等进行了开创性的研究，因此受到认可。卡恩斯博士的新学术领域为工人及其家人的环境变化的原因和后果提供了新的清晰的认识。他的创新工作提供了原创、宝贵和全面的数据，为如何提高数百万美国人的生活质量提供了新的见解。卡恩斯博士的研究探索了教育背景、性别和其他人口特征的多样性对代表性、政策制定和决策的影响。他的工作展示了如何在重要的决策中代表人民，以及如何为代表不足的群体扩大机会，从而产生经济增长，使越来越多样化的公民受益。此外，在合作研究中，卡恩斯博士通过利用跨国数据来检验领导人的教育背景与政策结果之间的相关性，从而探讨了全球背景下的政府和治理。卡恩斯博士获得了美国政治科学协会(APSA)哈罗德·D·拉斯韦尔公共政策最佳论文奖和APSA立法研究部门卡尔·阿尔伯特奖最佳立法研究博士论文奖。2014年，他的著作《白领政府：阶级在经济政策制定中的隐藏角色》获得了APSA的格拉迪斯·卡默勒奖和艾伦·罗森塔尔奖，前者获得了美国国家政策最佳书籍奖，后者获得了艾伦·罗森塔尔奖，该奖由一名初级学者撰写的、对立法从业者具有潜在价值的文章(由APSA立法研究部门颁发)。卡恩斯在塔尔萨大学获得政治学学士学位(2006年)，在普林斯顿大学获得政治学硕士学位(2008年)，在普林斯顿大学获得政治和社会政策博士学位(2011年)。他于2011年加入杜克大学，最初担任讲师，随后担任助理和副教授。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Dr. Nicholas Cranes, Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University as the 2021 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient. Dr. Carnes is recognized for his path-breaking research on how a range of societal institutions influence opportunity and inequality in the United States. Dr Carnes's new area of scholarship offers new clarity on causes and consequences of changing circumstances for workers and their families. His innovative work offers original, invaluable, and comprehensive data for gaining new insights on how to improve quality of life for millions of Americans. Dr. Carnes's research explores the impacts of diversity in educational background, gender, and other demographic characteristics on representation, policy-making, and decision-making. His work shows how people can be represented in decisions of great importance and how expanding opportunities for underrepresented groups can produce economic growth that benefits an increasingly diverse range of citizens. Moreover, in collaborative research, Dr. Carnes explores government and governance in a global context by drawing on cross-national data to examine the correlation between the educational background of leaders and policy outcomes. Dr. Carnes won the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Harold D. Laswell Award for best dissertation in public policy and APSA's Legislative Studies Section's Carl Albert Award for the best doctoral dissertation in legislative studies. In 2014, his book White Collar Government: the Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making won both the APSA's Gladys Kammerer Prize for the best book in US national policy and the Alan Rosenthal Prize for Best Book or Article Written by a Junior Scholar that has Potential Value to Legislative Practitioners (given by APSA’s legislative studies section).Dr. Carnes received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Tulsa (2006), an M.A. in Politics from Princeton University (2008), and a Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University (2011). He joined the faculty of Duke University in 2011, first as a lecturer and subsequently as an assistant and associate professorThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.