Sarah E. Igo | |
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Born | 1969 (age 52–53) |
Spouse(s) | 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.
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]
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]
Igo and her husband,historian Ole Molvig,have three daughters together. [22]
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