Fellow-Category: Social Sciences

Joseph P. Gone

In his interdisciplinary scholarship, clinical-community psychologist Joseph P. Gone examines cultural influences on mental health status. A citizen of the Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana, he has investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. For example, he attends to the distinctive

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Jack Goldstone

Jack A. Goldstone (Ph.D. Harvard) is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center.  Previously, Goldstone was on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of California, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University,

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Miriam Golden

Miriam A. Golden is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in government in 1983 from Cornell University, after undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her broad interests are in problems of political representation and accountability.

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Daniel Diermeier

Daniel Diermeier is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences and the Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship at the Kellogg School of Management. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the Department of Political Science, the Department of Economics, the

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Gary Urton

Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.  He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships in support of his research in the Andes over the past thirty-five years, including from the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Social

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Peter Tse

Peter Ulric Tse is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College, where he has been since 2001. His lab’s research focuses on using brain and behavioral data to constrain models of the neural bases of attention and consciousness, unconscious processing that precedes and constructs consciousness, mental causation, and human capacities for imagination and creativity.

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Holly Brewer

Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American Cultural and Intellectual History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Her work crosses boundaries between Early American and British history, cultural and intellectual history, and political and legal history.     Marked by slow and methodical research, her work tends to ask questions that others have not

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Rayna Rapp

I am writing a book tentatively entitled A Child Surrounds This Brain: How Neuroscientists, Families, and Young Adult Activists Think About Disability and Neurodiversity. The fieldwork on which the book is based grows out of my longstanding commitments as a medical anthropologist.  In my research, I explore how neuroscientific notions of the brain have come

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Monika Piazzesi

Monika Piazzesi is the Joan Kenny Professor of Eocnomics at Stanford University. She is the program director of the NBER Asset Pricing Program and a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. She is also a research affiliate for CEPR. In 2007–2008, she served as monetary advisor to the Federal Reserve Bnak of Minneapolis. Prior

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Scott Monroe

Since his early graduate training in clinical psychology, Scott Monroe has been focused on the problem of depression—fascinated by the episodic nature of the condition, vexed by its devastating effects. Both in his early clinical work and research, he witnessed scores of talented and wonderful people who fell into the deep throes of depression, recovered,

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Cecilia Menjívar

Cecilia Menjívar is Cowden Distinguished Professor in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. Trained as a sociologist, she is generally interested in how state power manifests itself in the microprocesses of everyday life. Specifically, her work seeks to understand the impact of structural forces, as shaped by the state,

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Diana Liverman

I am a geographer concerned with the human dimensions of global environmental change, especially the challenges of responding to climate change in the Americas.  I teach at the University of Arizona where I am the co-director of the Institute of the Environment and a Regents Professor in the School of Geography and Development.  I have

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Kent Lightfoot

Kent G. Lightfoot is Professor of Anthropology and Class of 1960 Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley.  Trained in the field of North American archaeology, he specializes in the study of late pre-colonial people and their subsequent encounters with diverse European colonial regimes.  After receiving his B.A. in anthropology from Stanford

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Meira Levinson

Meira Levinson is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  A normative political philosopher by training, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston public schools.  Her most recent book, No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard UP, 2012), shows how

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Jonathan Levin

Jonathan Levin is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he is currently the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory and Chair of the Department of Economics. He also holds an appointment in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Levin’s research is in industrial organization, the field of economics that studies imperfect competition and

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Scott E. Page

Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.  Scott has previously taught at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of

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