Kenneth Prewitt

KENNETH PREWITT is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Previous positions include:  Director of the United States Census Bureau, President of the Social Science Research Council, Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Director of the National Opinion Research Center.  He taught for fifteen years at the University of Chicago, and for shorter periods, at Stanford University (where he received his Ph.D.), Washington University, the University of Nairobi, and Makerere University (Uganda).  Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Southern Methodist University, a Distinguished Service Award from the New School for Social Research, and The Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany, and various awards associated with his Directorship of the Census Bureau.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Academy of Political and Social Science, the Russell-Sage Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.    Dr. Prewitt has recently published The Politics and Science of Census Taking, and is finishing a book on the civic mobilization effort that improved levels of public cooperation in Census 2000.