Thomas Dixon Cook (born 31 July 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and Emeritus Fellow at their Institute for Policy Research, where he was formerly the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice. In 2014, he became a senior fellow at

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Honors and awards

Cook received the Myrdal Prize for Science from the American Evaluation Association in 1982 and the Donald Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology from the Policy Sciences Organization in 1988. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at

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in 1997-1998. In 2000, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he became a Margaret Mead Fellow of the

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in 2002. He received the

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Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the

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in 2012.

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* 1941 births Living people English sociologists English emigrants to the United States Northwestern University faculty Alumni of the University of Oxford Stanford University alumni Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellows Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Birkenhead {{UK-sociologist-stub