Senior Vice President

Harriet Zuckerman is Senior Vice President of the Foundation and Professor Emerita at Columbia University.

Before joining the Foundation in 1991, she was professor of sociology at Columbia and chaired the department from 1978-82. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and Ph.D. from Columbia.

Ms. Zuckerman’s research has focused on the social organization of science and scholarship. The author of Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, and co-editor, among other volumes, of The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community, she has also published in scholarly journals on subjects such as the reward system in science, scientific misconduct, intellectual property rights in science and scholarship, the history and operation of the refereeing in scientific journals, the emergence of scientific specialties, and the careers of men and women scientists. She has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology and the board of reviewing editors of Science.

Currently a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a member of the board of Annual Reviews, Inc., Ms. Zuckerman has also served on the Committee on Selection of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as well as its Educational Advisory Board, on the boards of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Social Science Research Council, and as president of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

She has held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.