Date: April 10, 2002Contact: Public Information(202) 383-9005, ext. 320[email protected]
Sally T. Hillsman to Become New Executive Officer at ASA
Washington, DC--The American Sociological Association (ASA) announces the appointment of its new Executive Officer, Sally T. Hillsman, a sociologist with a specialty in crime and justice.
Hillsman is currently the Deputy Director at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), U.S. Department of Justice, where she has served since 1996. Effective May 15, she will succeed Felice J. Levine, who leaves ASA to become Executive Director of the American Educational Research Association.
In announcing her appointment, ASA President Barbara Reskin said, "Sally Hillsman is a talented sociologist with the breadth of leadership that will contribute importantly to the advancement of sociology for many years ahead." Arne Kalleberg, Chair of the Search Committee, indicated that "Hillsman was identified as an extraordinary candidate from a rich talent-pool of applicants. We are fortunate indeed to have a top-level administrator with experience in research, government, and non-profit organizations take the helm at ASA and represent the discipline."
In accepting the appointment, Hillsman said, "It is a great privilege for me to be joining the ASA at a time in which the social and behavioral sciences are flourishing and making major contributions to both the development of scientific knowledge and public policy. I am looking forward to meeting the many challenges that lie ahead for the Association and the discipline."
Hillsman has been responsible for developing and managing the external behavioral and social science research program and the intramural research program at the National Institute of Justice. Before joining NIJ, she was Vice President for Research at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia, and, prior to that, Associate Director of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. She was also on the faculty in the Department of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. In addition to Hillsman's sociological work on crime and justice, she brings research expertise on labor markets and education, with an emphasis on race and gender.
A noted expert on research and science policy issues ranging from data access to confidentiality, Hillsman is currently a member of the ASA's Committee on Professional Ethics and a member of the Social and Behavioral Science Working Group of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. She earned her doctoral degree in sociology from Columbia University and her AB degree in economics and sociology from Mount Holyoke College. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Hillsman was the recipient of a Danforth Fellowship and a predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Founded in 1905, the American Sociological Association is a non-profit membership organization of approximately 13,000 members dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
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