Sarah E. Igo
Sarah E. Igo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
| Spouse | Ole Molvig |
| Awards | Merle Curti Award Ralph Waldo Emerson Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., Social Studies, Harvard University M.A., PhD, History, 2001, Princeton University |
| Thesis | America surveyed: the making of a social scientific public, 1920-1960 (2001) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Vanderbilt University |
Sarah Elizabeth Igo (born 1969) is an American historian and author. She is the Andrew Jackson Chair in American History at Vanderbilt University.
Early life and education
[edit]Igo was born in 1969.[1] She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies from Harvard University and her PhD in history from Princeton University.[2] During her post-secondary school education at Harvard and Princeton, Igo was the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and Whiting Foundation in the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship.[3]
Career
[edit]Upon earning her PhD, Igo joined the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant professor of History.[4] During her tenure at the university, she received the 2004 American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship to research her first book.[5] Igo eventually published her first book in 2007 titled The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. She republished her dissertation into a social sciences book focused on how the increasing use of surveys, polls and other forms of statistical measurements have shaped American society.[6][7] For her efforts, she received the 2007 President's Book Award, which "rewards an especially meritorious first work by a beginning scholar and is judged on the criteria of scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach and past structures and events and change over time."[8] She also won the Cheiron Book Prize and was named a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the American Sociological Association.[2] Prior to leaving the University of Pennsylvania, she co-founded the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education with Peter Struck.[9]
In 2008, Igo left the University of Pennsylvania to become an Associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, where her husband also worked.[10] Upon joining Vanderbilt, Igo began working on her second book The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. In order to write her book, she received a Short Term Visiting Scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science[11] and the New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[12] After years of research, Igo published The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America in 2018, which focused on why and how privacy became a concern to American citizens.[13][14] It went on to win the 2019 American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History,[15] the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award,[16] the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award[17] and the Chancellor's Award for Research.[18] In the same year, Igo was appointed to the residential faculty of E. Bronson Ingram College to "help expand the student learning experience beyond the classroom"[19] and the Committee on Enhancing Faculty Voices in the Public Sphere.[20]
On September 20, 2019, Igo was promoted to the Andrew Jackson Endowed Chair in American History.[21]
Personal life
[edit]Igo and her husband, historian Ole Molvig, have three daughters together.[22]
References
[edit]- ^ "Igo, Sarah Elizabeth, 1969-". viaf.org. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ a b "Sarah Igo". as.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Goodman, Bonnie. "Sarah E. Igo". historynewsnetwork.org. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Appointments and Promotions" (PDF). archives.upenn.edu. November 1, 2001. p. 1. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Sarah E. Igo F'04". acls.org. American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Stossel, Scott (January 21, 2007). "Measure for Measure". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Kohut, Andrew (Spring 2008). "Review of The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public". Public Opinion Quarterly. 72 (1): 160–163. doi:10.1093/poq/nfm057. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Honors & Other Things". almanac.upenn.edu. October 10, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Struck: National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education". almanac.upenn.edu. October 6, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Lewis, Princine (October 1, 2008). "New Faculty: Sarah Igo". vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Short Term Visiting Scholars" (PDF). mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. 2012. p. 80. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". mellon.org. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Greenberg, David (June 8, 2018). "How we balance our right to privacy with our collective need for information". Washington Post. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Friedman, Lawrence (Spring 2019). "The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America by Sarah E. Igo (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 49 (4). MIT Press: 687–688. doi:10.1162/jinh_r_01365. S2CID 67876045. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "2019 Jacques Barzun Prize". amphilsoc.org. November 8, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Faculty News". as.vanderbilt.edu. December 9, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Sarah Igo". as.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^ Ann Marie Deer Owens (August 23, 2019). "11 faculty members honored at Fall Faculty Assembly". news.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Robertson, Seth (April 2, 2018). "New residential faculty to join E. Bronson Ingram College, The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons". vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "University launches effort to support faculty public engagement". news.vanderbilt.edu. January 4, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ Ann Marie Deer Owens (September 20, 2019). "Eight new endowed chair holders honored". news.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ^ "Residential College Magic". news.vanderbilt.edu. February 21, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
