People
Santi Furnari
Lawrence Rothfield
Norman Bradburn
Nick Rabkin
Betty Farrell Executive Director
Carroll Joynes Senior Fellow
Norman Bradburn Senior Fellow
Peter Linett Visiting Associate
Santi Furnari Research Affiliate
Lawrence Rothfield Research Associate
Nick Rabkin Research Affiliate
Michael Kuby Administrator
Betty Farrell
Executive Director
773.256.6326
farrell-betty@norc.uchicago.edu
Before taking the helm of the CPC, Betty Farrell (Ph.D. sociology, Harvard University) was associate director of the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences and a senior lecturer in the Graduate Social Science Division at the University of Chicago. Her work in historical sociology has focused on the sociology of culture, public policy, U.S. family patterns, and gender studies. She co-edited with Diane Grams, Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts (Rutgers University Press, 2008); she is also the author of Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture (Westview, 1999) and Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston (State University of New York Press, 1993). Her current research project, "Cultural Pluralism in the Chicago Art World," has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and investigates questions of access, diversity, and inclusivity across a range of Chicago's established and community-based cultural institutions.
Carroll Joynes
Senior Fellow
773.256.6327
c-joynes@uchicago.edu
Carroll Joynes co-founded the Cultural Policy Center. He received his Ph.D. in European History at the University of Chicago in 1981, taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York and at New York University, and returned to the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of Humanities in 1994. In addition to establishing the CPC in 1999 and overseeing its development, he has served on the majority of its research projects, helping produce a comprehensive map of minority participation in Chicago cultural institutions and contributing to Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in Nonprofit Arts. With Norman Bradburn, he is currently serving as director of the research project Cultural Infrastructure in the United States.
Norman Bradburn
Senior Fellow
301.634.9331
773.256.6314
bradburn-norman@norc.uchicago.edu
Bradburn is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the faculties of the University of Chicago’s Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, Department of Psychology, Booth School of Business and the College and a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. He is a former provost of the University (1984-1989), chairman of the Department of Behavioral Sciences (1973-1979), and associate dean of the Division of the Social Sciences (1971-1973). From 2000-2004 he was the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Associated with NORC since 1961, he has been director of NORC and president of its Board of Trustees.
Bradburn has been at the forefront in developing theory and practice in the field of sample survey research in the cultural sector. He is co-director of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators project and principal investigator of the CPC’s Cultural Infrastructure project. For the Humanities Indicators project he oversees the collation and analysis of data, the creation of reliable benchmarks to guide future analysis of the humanities, and the development of a consistent and sustainable means of updating the data. For the Cultural Infrastructure project he oversees the systematic measurement of recent building projects and their consequences, modeling levels of creativity and sustainability of individual arts organizations before and after building projects, and the overall cultural vibrancy and vitality of their cities or regions as a result.
Peter Linett
Visiting Associate
773-256-6173
peter@sloverlinett.com
Peter Linett is a partner at Slover Linett Strategies, a Chicago-based audience research and evaluation firm serving museums, arts organizations, and educational institutions. Linett is a longtime friend and collaborator of the Cultural Policy Center, having helped conceive the Cultural Infrastructure Project and consulted on other initiatives. He will be a Visiting Associate at the Cultural Policy Center for the winter and spring quarters of 2010. Linett serves as associate editor for theory and practice at Curator, the museum field’s leading peer-refereed journal, and on the national advisory council of the Center for the Future of Museums at the American Association of Museums. He blogs at Asking Audiences. Linett’s current research focuses on innovation in museum exhibition. At the Cultural Policy Center, he will develop plans for a “lab museum” to experiment with new forms of public engagement with art, science, and history content.
Santi Furnari
Research Affiliate
sfurnari@uchicago.edu
Santi Furnari is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School in London. Santi was Visiting Scholar at the Cultural Policy Center for the fall quarter 2009. Before completing his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University in Milan, Santi was a visiting Ph.D. student (2006-2007) and an Advanced Research-abroad Fellow of the IRI Foundation (2007-2008) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Santi’s main research interest is the study of the social and political forces driving innovation in the field of public architecture and design. His Ph.D. dissertation is an historical study of the cognitive, organizational and social network mechanisms underlying the creation of Millennium Park in Chicago. Together with colleagues Anna Grandori and Giuseppe Soda at Bocconi University, Santi has also published several papers and book chapters in academic journals and edited volumes. At the Cultural Policy Center, Santi is further developing his research on the origins of Millennium Park and on the policy implications of this large architectural project with his graduate research assistants Nidia Banuelos and Plamena Pehlivanova.
Lawrence Rothfield
Research Associate
773.256.6322
lary@uchicago.edu
Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the Cultural Policy Center with Carroll Joynes after serving as director (and co-founder, with Gerald Graff) of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. Professor Rothfield co-designed and co-taught Introduction to Cultural Policy with economist Don Coursey in 2000, and has been teaching one of the CPC’s core courses every year since then.
Rothfield’s research in cultural policy falls into three broad areas: cultural heritage; the arts and urban development; and humanities policy. His recent cultural policy publications include: The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum, Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War, Chicago Music City, and contributed to Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington.
For Rothfield's blog on cultural heritage, see The Punching Bag.
Nick Rabkin
Research Affiliate
703.256.6026
Rabkin-Nick@norc.org
Nick Rabkin is leading a research project that examines the work of teaching artists in twelve communities across the country. He is the co-author of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. Before coming to the CPC/NORC, he directed the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, and was a senior program officer for arts and culture at the MacArthur Foundation, as well as serving as Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the city of Chicago.
Michael Kuby
Administrator
773.256.6305
kuby-michael@norc.uchicago.edu
Michael Kuby joined the CPC in October 2008 as center administrator.