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The Dorothy S. Thomas Award and PSC’s Legacy of Training ‘Master Craftsmen’

These three generations of recipients of PAA’s Dorothy Thomas Award won the honor 20 years apart– in 1983, 2003, and 2023. From left to right, PSC Director Sarah Burgard, former ISR and PSC Director and Faculty Emeritus David Lam, and PSC Trainee and Sociology PhD Candidate Erin Ice. They are pictured at the 2023 David Lam Symposium at the Institute for Social Research.

Dorothy Thomas’s obituarist summarized her life tightly: Her aim was “to be a master craftsman and to turn out master craftsmen,” and she succeeded in both. The legendary population scientist Dorothy Thomas (1899-1975) who was the first female professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is also the namesake of the most… Continue reading The Dorothy S. Thomas Award and PSC’s Legacy of Training ‘Master Craftsmen’