Fellow-Category: Social Sciences

John Aldrich

John Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University.  He has taught previously at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota.  He is interested in two general questions about politics:  how, when, and under what conditions does democracy work effectively and how and why do people make the political decisions

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Catalina Romero

Catalina Romero is Professor of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Born in Lima, Peru, she received her B.A. and Professional Title in Sociology at the same university in 1970, her M.S at Iowa State University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in

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Stephen Gardbaum

Stephen Gardbaum is the MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. An internationally recognized constitutional scholar, his research focuses on comparative constitutional law, federalism, and the foundations of liberal legal and political theory. His numerous articles on constitutional law have appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law

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Catherine M. Sharkey

Catherine Sharkey is the Crystal Eastman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.  She is one of the nation’s leading authorities on punitive damages and federal preemption in the realm of products liability. She has published more than thirty articles, essays, and book chapters in the fields of tort, administrative law, class

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Katherine Franke

Katherine Franke is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches courses on Gender Justice, Queer Theory, Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Legal Thought, Gay Marriage, and The Law of Occupation. She also serves on the Executive Committee of

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Karen J. Alter

Karen J. Alter is Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University, specializing in the international politics of international organizations and international law. She has Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T. (1996). Over time her work has become increasingly interdisciplinary, bringing together political science, historical institutional approaches, sociology, and law to understand how international

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Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory. Particular interests include the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories

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Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, a position she has held since 2001. She also began her teaching career at Yale, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1977-79) immediately after receiving her Ph.D. there, but after two years as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the

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Aleh Tsyvinski

I am currently a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Yale University .At Yale, I also hold a position of a Co-Director of Macroeconomic Research Program at Cowles Foundation. I am a Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, I taught at Harvard and UCLA. I have also been recognized

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Arthur J. Robson

Arthur Robson’s research has revolved for twenty years around the belief that modern human economic behavior is best explained by considering biological and anthropological factors. Such a view was once heretical but is becoming more widely accepted within economics. Before joining the faculty of Simon Fraser University, Robson held a faculty position at the University

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Jean Ensminger

Jean Ensminger is the Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. Her 1984 Ph.D. is from Northwestern University. Ms. Ensminger is a past President of the Society for Economic Anthropology and served as Division Chair for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech from 2002-2006. She is known

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Paolo D’Odorico

My research focuses on the role of hydrological processes in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Starting from analyses of mechanisms underlying the coupling between hydrological processes and the biota, my research has contributed to the emergence of the relatively new field of ecohydrology. This research has provided a framework to investigate the role of soil

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Dalton Conley

Noted sociologist Dalton Conley has spent his career researching what determines economic variances within and among generations, between races, and even among siblings. Currently University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Medicine & Public Policy at New York University as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, among other positions, he

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Mark S. Mizruchi

Mark S. Mizruchi is Professor of Sociology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan. A native of Cortland and Syracuse, New York, he received his B.A. at Washington University (St. Louis) in 1975 and his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980. After several years as a statistical

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Agnes Weiyun He

Agnes Weiyun He is a  Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at Stony Brook University. She received her B.A. in English from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University, China), Diploma-in-Education from the National Institute of Education (Singapore), M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona (U.S.),

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Bruce A. Kimball

A noted historian of education, Bruce A. Kimball earned the A.B. from Dartmouth College and the M.Div. and Ed.D. from Harvard University, and studied for two years at Harvard Law School as a Liberal Arts Fellow. Having taught at Harvard College, University of Houston Honors Program, Yale University, and the University of Rochester, he is

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