Charles Emery, professor, psychology, W. Scott McGraw, professor, anthropology, and James Peck, professor, economics, have been selected as Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows for 2011 in recognition of their first-rate scholarship. The award is in honor of emeritus professor Joan Huber, who served as dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences from 1984 to 1992 and as Ohio State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost until her retirement in 1993. Fellows are nominated by department chairs and receive an annual cash award of $5,000 a year for three years to further their research programs.

Professor Emery joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology in 1994. Emery’s research program is in behavioral medicine and the psychology of aging, specifically addressing psychological adjustment to chronic illness and psychological outcomes of physical exercise. He is director of Ohio State’s Cardiopulmonary Behavioral Medicine Program and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. Emery received his Bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University in 1980 and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California in 1985.

Professor McGraw is an evolutionary primatologist who combines his interest in functional anatomy and ecology to explore the evolution, morphology and behavior of monkeys, apes and humans. A field primatologist who has conducted work in a variety of African locales, McGraw is co-director of the Tai Monkey Project, a multi-disciplinary program researching the anatomy, behavior, and genetics of a primate community in western Ivory Coast. McGraw is actively involved in conservation and is the African Coordinator for the IUCN/ SSC Primate Specialists Groups. He is associate editor for American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Human Evolution, and African Primates and is a senior panel member for the National Science Foundation. McGraw serves the Department of Anthropology as its undergraduate advisor. He received his PhD in Anthropological Science from Stony Brook University in 1996.

Professor Peck joined the Department of Economics in 1992. He has made important contributions to our understanding of uncertainty and asymmetric information in markets. His early work is on the theory underlying randomly fluctuating, yet rational, price bubbles, known by the term “sunspot equilibrium.” He was the first to show that, for a wide class of dynamic models, seemingly irrational behavior like price bubbles can be the outcome of markets with fully rational individuals. Peck’s theory of destructive competition in the presence of demand uncertainty was cited in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Peck’s current research focus is the timing of transactions on markets; he began a theoretical study of bank runs as a self-fulfilling phenomenon, well before recent financial events made the topic popular. Peck is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.