ISPS Faculty

Resident Fellows

Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he has taught since 1989. Since 1996, he has served as director of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, an interdisciplinary research center that emphasizes field experimentation. His research interests span a wide array of topics: voting behavior, partisanship, campaign finance, rationality, research methodology, and hate crime.

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies. As a specialist in American politics her work focuses on voting rights, mass political behavior, public opinion, and political psychology. Professor Brown-Dean’s current research agenda focuses on the political consequences of crime control and criminal justice policy. She is a faculty affiliate of the Ohio Criminal Justice Research Center and previously served as a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. She has published several pieces on issues such as felon disenfranchisement laws, racial profiling, and perceptions of bias in the American criminal justice system. In 2005 she received the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Research and was selected to present her work on felon disenfranchisement to the prestigious Oxford University Roundtable. In addition, Professor Brown-Dean convened a national conference recognizing the fortieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 titled “Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future.” She teaches courses on Voting Rights and Representation, Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Public Opinion, and Black and Jewish Community Politics. She is a recipient of the Henry R. Spencer Award for Distinguished Teaching and has been recognized by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha for excellence in teaching.

Justin Fox, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2004, is Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on the effects of political institutions on policy outcomes and political representation. His dissertation explored the role of private campaign giving on the policy process, focusing on those groups who give to aid the electoral prospects of perceived ideological allies (e.g., The Club for Growth and EMILY’s List). His current project explores the conditions under which political parties enhance political representation. He has published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics and Public Choice.

Alan Gerber, Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of American Politics. An expert on elections, campaign finance, and political representation, he is currently engaged in experimental studies of the effect of political activity on voter behavior. Recently he collaborated with political campaigns, randomizing the quantity of direct mail that they sent to voters in order to gauge the cost-effectiveness of political communication. His work has appeared in recent issues of the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.

Timothy W. Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economic History, is an economic historian who works on the financial and demographic history of Europe and the United States. After four years as an assistant professor at Princeton, he came to Yale in 1993. He has been a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar (2000–2001) and the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge (2002–2003). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, and the German Marshall Fund. He is currently finishing a project on the development of credit cooperatives in Germany in the nineteenth century.

Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D. Yale University, 2000, is Professor of Political Science and Resident Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is also a fellow at the New America Foundation and a former junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. His most recent books are The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement—And How You Can Fight Back (2006) and Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (with Paul Pierson), which is newly in paperback (2006). Currently he is heading a Social Science Research Council project on the “privatization of risk,” co-chairing the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 2007 conference, and completing two books: Inequality and American Politics: Participation, Power, and Policy (Norton, 2007) and an edited volume on the politics of inequality and insecurity in the United States (with Joe Soss and Suzanne Mettler). He is also the author of The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (Princeton University Press, 1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration, and The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which, as a dissertation, received prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in American Political Science Review; The American Prospect; The Boston Globe; Boston Review; the British Journal of Political Science; Perspectives on Politics; Politics and Society; Studies in American Political Development; the International Journal of Social Welfare; the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; The New Republic; The New York Times; The Nation; the Los Angeles Times; and The Washington Post.

Gregory Huber, Associate Professor of Political Science. Professor Huber’s area of research is American politics, with a particular focus on bureaucratic and organizational behavior, criminal justice policy, regulation, and domestic political economy. He is the 2002 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Leonard White Award for the best dissertation in public administration. He has been a Brookings Institution research fellow. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Migration Review, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Population and Development Review.

David R. Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, is a past director of the Ethics, Politics, and Economics Program. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional fellow; Guggenheim fellow; Hoover national fellow; Sherman Fairchild fellow at the California Institute of Technology; a visiting fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford); a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; a member of the American Political Science Association National Council; a member of the Board of Overseers of the National Election Studies of the Center for Political Studies; and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2000–2001, he was John M. Olin Visiting Professor of American Government at Oxford University. His writings include Party Loyalty Among Congressmen (1966); Congress: The Electoral Connection (1974); “Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals” (1974); Placing Parties in American Politics (1986); Divided We Govern (1991); America’s Congress (2000); and Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre (2002).

Associated Faculty

Jeffrey Alexander is Professor of Sociology and a director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He has written extensively on classical, modern, and contemporary social theory. Among his publications are The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (2004), The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005), Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual (2006), and The Civil Sphere (2006).

Jennifer Bair is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where she is also the director of undergraduate studies for the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of economic sociology, political economy, and development studies with a particular focus on the social and political dimensions of trade liberalization and economic restructuring in Latin America. She spent academic year 2005–2006 as a visiting research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Berlin Social Science Research Center), where she edited a volume titled Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research (under review at Cornell University Press). She is currently completing the manuscript “Sewing Up Development? From Boom to Bust in Post-NAFTA Mexico,” which analyzes the first decade of the North American Free Trade Agreement and is based on fieldwork conducted over several years in northern, central, and southern Mexico. She is the co-editor (with Gary Gereffi and David Spener) of Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA (Temple University Press, 2002). In addition to several book chapters, her publications include articles in the journals World Development, Global Networks, Industry & Innovation, Competition and Change, Environment and Planning A, and Comercio Exterior.

Since joining the Yale faculty in 2002, she has taught courses such as Sex and Gender in Society, Economic Sociology, Gender and Development, Transitions and Transformations in Eastern Europe and Latin America, and Development and Underdevelopment. She is a past director of undergraduate studies for the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and is a member of the WGSS Council, the Yale Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the Yale Political Union’s faculty advisory board.

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. She previously taught at Harvard University, 1993–2000, where she was the director of the Program in Social Studies (1997–2000), and at the New School for Social Research, 1991–1993. She was a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow during 2000–2001. She is the president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division in 2006.

She is the author of The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2002); Transformations of Citizenship: The Dilemmas of the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization (2000; the Spinoza lectures); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; new edition in 2002); Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism (1992); and Critique, Norm and Utopia (1986). Her John Seeley Memorial Lectures, held at Cambridge University, appeared in 2004 as The Rights of Others: Aliens, Citizens and Residents (Cambridge University Press) and won the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association in 2005 and the best book in social philosophy award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2004. A new book, Another Universalism: Sovereignty, Hospitality and Democratic Iterations, with replies by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, and Will Kymlika, is forthcoming form Oxford University Press in 2006.

Professor Benhabib has been visiting and distinguished faculty in universities in Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, UK, Israel, and Turkey. In 2004 she presented the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California at Berkeley. Articles drawing on her current research on multiculturalism in liberal democracies and transformations of citizenship have appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Zeit, Dissent, and Political Theory. Her books and articles have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Chinese, and Japanese.

Kelly D. Brownell is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. He has served in a number of leadership roles at Yale including master of Silliman College and chair of the Department of Psychology from 2003 to 2006. Professor Brownell has served as president of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences, the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University.

He has published 14 books and more than 300 scientific articles and chapters. One book received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book from the American Library Association, and his paper “Understanding and Preventing Relapse” published in the American Psychologist was listed as one of the most frequently cited papers in psychology. Professor Brownell has advised members of congress, governors, world health and nutrition organizations, and media leaders on issues of nutrition, obesity, and public policy. He was cited as a “moral entrepreneur” with special influence on public discourse in a history of the obesity field and was cited by Time magazine as a leading “warrior” in the area of nutrition and public policy. In 2006 Time listed Kelly Brownell among “The World’s 100 Most Influential People.”

Beth Osborne Daponte is a Senior Research Scholar with ISPS and also holds appointments in the School of Management (Program on Non-Profit Organizations) and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Trained as a demographer/sociologist, she conducts research in three areas: Bayesian demography, welfare policy, and human rights. She has applied her work in Bayesian demography to the populations of South Africa, Lesotho, and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Her work on welfare policy focuses primarily on food assistance policies. She served as the vice-chair of the Technical Advisory Board for Second Harvest’s national study, “Hunger in America 2001.” In the human rights arena, her research examines the impact of economic sanctions and war on populations, concentrating on Iraq. Ms. Daponte teaches Program Evaluation in the School of Management. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Joint Centers for Poverty Research, MacArthur Foundation, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, the Forbes Fund, Greenpeace International, and the U.S. State Department. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Poverty, Journal of Peace Research, PSR Quarterly, Jurimetrics, Regional Studies, and the Journal of Nutrition Education. Currently, she has support from the Institute for Research on Poverty to examine the relationship between domestic obesity trends and food policy, from the National Science Foundation to examine U.S. census undercount, and from the Joint Centers for Poverty Research to examine the relationship between food security and food assistance policies.

Thad Dunning is Assistant Professor of Political Science and is affiliated with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies as well as the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. His current research focuses on the influence of natural resource wealth on political regimes; other recent articles investigate the influence of foreign aid on democratization and the role of information technology in economic development. He conducts field research in Latin America and has also written on a range of methodological topics, including econometric corrections for selection effects and the use of natural experiments in the social sciences. Professor Dunning’s previous work has appeared in International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geopolitics, and a forthcoming Handbook of Methodology (Sage Publications). In 2006–2007 he is teaching an undergraduate lecture course, a seminar on ethnic politics, and a graduate seminar on formal models of comparative politics.

Justine S. Hastings is an Assistant Professor of economics and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, with a field emphasis in industrial organization and econometrics. Her research focuses on consumer preferences and their effect on competition, firm strategy, and market outcomes. Professor Hastings’s current research examines consumer behavior and competition in traditional retail markets, such as gasoline and grocery retailing, but also extends to examine the implications of consumer behavior for markets with customarily publicly provided goods such as public schooling and social security.

Susan Hyde is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a research fellow at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Before joining the department she was a research fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include international influences on domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation, and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. Her current research explores the effects of international democracy promotion efforts, with a particular focus on international election observation. She has served as an international observer with the Carter Center and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for elections in Albania, Indonesia, and Venezuela, and has consulted for the Democracy Program at the Carter Center. In 2006–2007 she is teaching courses on international organizations, democracy promotion, and the role of non-state actors in world politics.

Edward H. Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences, Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Engineering, is widely known for his pioneering work evaluating HIV prevention programs, including the legal needle exchange program for the City of New Haven, which was awarded the 1992 Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement. Professor Kaplan received the 1994 Lanchester Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for the best publications in the field of operations research. In May 2000 he became only the twenty-first honorary inductee to the Omega Rho International Honor Society of Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and was selected as an INFORMS fellow in November 2005. His research into the optimal allocation of HIV prevention resources has been applied by the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on HIV Prevention Strategy, and more recently by the World Bank. In response to the events of September 11, 2001, he has launched a new research agenda with regard to modeling terrorism and bioterror response logistics. His research on emergency response to a smallpox attack was awarded the 2002 Koopman Prize of the Military Applications Society of INFORMS, while his more recent research examines the tactical prevention of and response to suicide bombings. Kaplan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2003, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in May 2004, the Institute of Medicine in October 2004, and the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in June 2004.

Alvin K. Klevorick is John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics and also serves as the director of the Division of the Social Sciences. He is a former deputy dean of Yale Law School and a former director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale. Professor Klevorick is a specialist in antitrust, the economics of regulation, market organization, and law and economics.

Joseph LaPalombara is a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Comparative Research, Arnold Wolfers Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Management, and a former director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Italy’s Social Science Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a past vice president of the American Political Science Association. In 1980–81 he served as chief of the cultural section of the U.S. Embassy in Rome. In 1993 he was awarded a Medal of Honor by Italy’s highest judicial tribunal, and the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. His publications include Politics Within Nations (1974), Interest Groups in Italian Politics (1964), The Italian Labor Movement: Problems and Prospects (1957), Italy: The Politics of Planning (1966), Democracy, Italian Style (1987), and with others, Multinational Corporations in Comparative Perspective (1977), Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries (1979), and Crises and Sequences in Political Development. He is editor of and contributor to Elezioni e comportamento politico in Italia; Bureaucracy and Political Development; and Political Parties and Political Development. He also serves on the board of several journals and is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Italy Italy, an editor of the Journal of International Business Education, as well as a consultant to a number of business corporations in the United States and Italy.

Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law, with appointments in the Law School, the School of Management, and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He has served on the law faculties at Tulane and the University of Virginia in addition to Yale, and has written numerous books and articles on administrative law, regulation, and social welfare policy. With Oliver Williamson, Professor Mashaw founded the Journal of Law Economics and Organization. Professor Mashaw is a past president as well as a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an occasional consultant to various government agencies and private foundations, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Karl Ulrich Mayer has been Professor of Sociology at Yale University since 2003 and currently serves as chair of the Department of Sociology. He is also director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE). He served as director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and from 1979 to 1983 at the German National Survey Research Center (ZUMA). He is the principal investigator of the German Life History Study, which has collected representative samples of approximately 12,000 women and men in both East and West Germany born between 1919 and 1971. From 1988 to 1998 he was co-principal investigator of the Berlin Aging Study. From 1993 to 1999 he was a member and vice-chair of the German National Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat). His recent publications include After the Fall of the Wall: Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany (forthcoming, Stanford University Press); Geboren 1964 und 1971: Untersuchungen zum Wandel von Ausbildungs- und Berufschancen (2004, ed. with Steffen Hillmert); The Berlin Aging Study (1999, ed. with P. B. Baltes); Event History Analysis (1989, with H.-P. Blossfeld and A. Hamerle); and Kollektiv und Eigensinn (1995, with J. Huinink et al.). For the new International Encyclopedia of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (2002) he served as a sub-editor for the Biographies Section. Currently, he is working on a book on skill formation. Professor Mayer is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sociology, the Leopoldina-German Academy of Natural Scientists, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Sherwin Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. degree in 1955. He is Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and a member of the editorial board of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. He was a member of the Bioethics Committee of Yale–New Haven Hospital from its founding in 1986 until 2000. He is the author of Doctors: The Biography of Medicine (1988), Medicine: The Art of Healing (1992), How We Die (1994), The Wisdom of the Body (1997), and The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Dr. Nuland won the National Book Award for How We Die in 1994 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Book Critics Circle Award in 1995. The goal of his recent work has been to transmit knowledge of medicine, biomedical ethics, and medical history to the public. His column, “The Uncertain Art,” appears regularly in The American Scholar. Dr. Nuland is a contributing editor to The American Scholar and The New Republic.

Benjam Polak, Professor of Economics, has a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and in the Yale School of Management. He has been at Yale since 1994. He teaches Game Theory aimed for students with a wide range of interests including economics, business, law, and politics. His main research is in micro-economic theory, but he also has a strong interest in economic and business history. He has published papers on a range of topics including the development of capital markets, the early “predatory” state, social choice, and decision theory.

John E. Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A.Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Professor of Economics. He works in areas at the intersection of economics, political philosophy, and political theory. His latest books are Democracy, Education, and Equality (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Political Competition (Harvard University Press, 2001), Equality of Opportunity (Harvard University Press, 1998), Theories of Distributive Justice (1996), and A Future for Socialism (1994). One current project studies whether democracy, conceived of as a system of cutthroat political competition between different interest groups represented by political parties, will engender, over the long run, a distribution of income and human capital that could be considered just. Another project concerns the electoral consequences of voter racism on the degree of redistribution in the United States and selected European countries.

Michael Rowe is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and co-director of the ISPS-Department of Psychiatry Program on Poverty, Disability, and Urban Health. Current research includes two ISPS-funded randomized trials involving choice versus coercion in public mental health practice, and the efficacy of valued social roles, in addition to treatment, in improving social and clinical outcomes for persons with severe mental illness; development of a model for community-medical school partnerships to increase access to behavioral health services for public housing residents; and evaluation of leadership training and board placement for homeless and formerly homeless persons. Other research and writing include homelessness and mental illness, patient-provider relationships in mental health care and their institutional and professional contexts, and patient and family experiences with high technology medicine. Recent and in-press publications include “Clinical Responsibility and Client Autonomy: Dilemmas in Mental Health Work at the Margins,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (2002); “Engaging Persons with Substance Use Disorders: Applying Lessons from Mental Health Outreach to Homeless Persons,” Administration and Policy in Mental Health (2002); “The rest is silence?,” Health Affairs (July–August 2002); “Consent of the governed: An experiment in leadership building for homeless persons with behavioral health disorders,” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Winter 2002); and The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine (Washington, D.C.: The Francis Press, 2002).

Peter Salovey, the Dean of Yale College, is Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and Professor of Management and of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directs the Health, Emotion, and Behavior (HEB) Laboratory. The program of research conducted in Professor Salovey’s laboratory concerns the psychological significance and function of human emotions and the application of social psychological principles to motivating health protective behaviors. His recent work on emotion has focused on the ways in which emotion facilitates adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning; with John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called Emotional Intelligence that organizes this work. He and his collaborators have developed and tested Emotional Intelligence curricula in schools and workplaces. The goal of much of his recent health behavior research is to investigate the role of the framing and psychological tailoring of messages in developing maximally persuasive educational and public health communication interventions promoting prevention and early detection behaviors relevant to cancer and HIV/AIDS in vulnerable communities. Professor Salovey’s most recent books include The Emotionally Intelligent Manager (with David Caruso; Jossey-Bass, 2004) and Key Readings in the Social Psychology of Health (with Alexander Rothman; Psychology Press, 2002). He has served as the editor or associate editor of three scientific journals: Psychological Bulletin, Review of General Psychology, and Emotion. Professor Salovey is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award, and he has served on the NSF’s Social Psychology Advisory Panel. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the NIMH. At Yale, Professor Salovey has received the William Clyde DeVane Medal, the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, and the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal.

Mark Schlesinger, Professor of Public Health, has published research on a range of health policy issues including mental health and substance abuse; public attitudes and policy; organizational form and behavior; and intergenerational equity and policy. He has served as consultant for the Office of Technology Assessment and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and was Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services. He currently is the editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology and Director of the Program in Agrarian Studies, has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and a fellow of the Wissenschafts-kolleg zu Berlin. He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for the academic year 1998–99. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as president of the Association of Asian Studies in 1997–98. Professor Scott is also a member of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. His latest book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, was published in 1998. His other publications include Political Ideology in Malaysia: Reality and the Beliefs of an Elite; Comparative Political Corruption; The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia; Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance; and Domination and the Arts of Resistance: The Hidden Transcript of Subordinate Groups. He has contributed to numerous journals, including Asian Studies; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Comparative Politics; American Political Science Review; Theory and Society; and Politics and Society. His research interests include political economy, anarchism, ideology, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, and class relations.

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he has taught in the Yale Political Science department since 1984 and served as its chair from 1999 to 2004. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town and Nuffield College, Oxford. His three most recent books are Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror (2007), The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (2005), and, with Michael Graetz, Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (2005), all published by Princeton University Press. For more information on his research, publications, and teaching, see http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ianshap.

Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, studies American politics, with particular attention to the presidency and the development of American national institutions. He is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has held the Chair in American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His books include Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877–1920; The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton; and The Search for American Political Development. He is also a managing editor of the journal Studies in American Political Development. His current work considers the role of ideas in politics.

Charles Asher Small, director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), is also the director and founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Prior to taking up the post of director of YIISA, he was a research affiliate at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). He received a B.A. in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal; an M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London; and a D.Phil., St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He completed post-doctorate research at Le Groupe de recherche en éthnicité et société (GRES), Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises (CEETUM), Université de Montréal. He held the post as lecturer, Sociology Department, Goldsmith College, University of London. He was the VATAT research fellow, Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, and a lecturer at the Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. He was also a lecturer at the Institute of Urban Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Charles Small was an associate professor and director of Urban Studies at SCSU, Connecticut. He has worked as a consultant and policy adviser in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East. He founded an independent documentary film cooperative in Montreal and lectured internationally. He specializes in social and cultural theory, globalization and national identity, socio-cultural policy, and racisms—including antisemitism.

Philip Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology. He specializes in cultural sociology, criminology, and research methods. His current work explores the dynamics of uncivil encounters between strangers in public settings. It looks at everyday quality-of-life problems such as swearing, queue jumping, and the invasion of personal space. A particular emphasis is given to situational and personal risk factors and to the determinants of pro-social interventions. Professor Smith is author of eight books and more than fifty articles and chapters. His recent volumes include Researching the Visual (with M. Emmison) and Culture and Punishment: A New Approach.

Ebonya Washington, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003, is Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science. She specializes in public finance and political economy with research interests in the interplay of race, gender, and political representation; the behavioral motivations and consequences of political participation; and the processes through which low-income Americans meet their financial needs. Her current work has appeared in the Journal of Human Resources and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Visitors at ISPS, 2006-2008

ISPS has limited facilities for visiting scholars. Each year ISPS accommodates several visitors from other universities or agencies in the United States and abroad, often at the invitation of one of its formally constituted research programs. Other ISPS visitors are self-supported while on leave from their home institutions.

Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics

Eyal Chowers is a senior lecturer at the political science department of Tel Aviv University. He completed his B.A. and M.A. at the Hebrew University, and received his Ph.D. from McGill University (1996). His publications include essays on Zionism that appeared in the journals Political Theory and The Review of Politics, and a book, The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2004).

Boris Kapustin received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1979. Since 1979, he has been teaching political philosophy in different universities in Russia and abroad, including Yale (1993, 1998–2000, 2002, 2004–2006), Sabanchi University in Istanbul (2006), UCLA (1995), and the London School of Economics (1985). His books include Moral Choices in Politics (2004), Ideology and Politics in Post-Communist Russia (2000), and Modernity as a Subject of Political Theory (1998). His numerous articles, besides those published in Russia, have appeared in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Bulgaria. He is currently at work on a book on a theory of civil society and its uses and abuses in different politico-ideological projects that are being carried out in various parts of the world and under the heading of the “global civil society.”

Thomas McCarthy is Visiting William H. Orrick Jr. Professor of Philosophy in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and in the Department of Philosophy, having previously taught at Northwestern University, Boston University, and the University of Munich, Germany. He is the general editor of the MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, with some 100 titles in print. Among his authored works are The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas and Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory. His current research is concerned with the ways in which ideas of development have been used to explain difference and justify domination in modern social and political thought.

Roy Tsao received a Ph.D. in politics at Princeton University in 2000 and has taught in the EPE program at Yale since 2004, having previously taught political theory and related subjects at Brown University, Georgetown University, and the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He recently was awarded an Andrew Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as a Kluge Research Fellowship at the U.S. Library of Congress. He is completing a book on the political thought of Hannah Arendt.

Frédéric Vandenberghe is senior researcher at the University for Humanist Studies in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has taught in England and Brazil, and is currently a visiting lecturer at EPE. He is the author of a two-volume book on theories of alienation and reification (Une histoire critique de la sociologie allemande), a booklet on Georg Simmel (La sociologie de Georg Simmel), and a forthcoming book on posthumanism and bio-capitalism (Complexités du posthumanisme).

Bioethics

David R. Koepsell, Donoghue visiting scholar for 2006–2007, earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy as well as his Law degree from the University of Buffalo. He has produced numerous articles as well as authored and edited several books, including Searle on the Institutions of Social Reality, co-edited with Laurence Moss (Blackwell, 2003), Reboot World (Writer’s Club Press, 2003) (fiction), and The Ontology of Cyberspace: Law, Philosophy, and the Future of Intellectual Property (Open Court, 2000). He has lectured world-wide on such issues as civil rights, philosophy, science, ontology, intellectual property theory, society, and religion. Since 1997, he has practiced law, worked for a software company in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for a year, and taught on an adjunct basis at the University of Buffalo, where he has an appointment as a Research Assistant Professor. At UB he directs the university’s campus-wide Research Ethics course, and is involved in developing and teaching in the Graduate Education department’s new master’s certificate program entitled “Science and the Public,” which is co-sponsored by the educational not-for-profit Center for Inquiry, with which he is also affiliated. He also developed a course entitled Law and Technology in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary program at the University of Buffalo .

Mr. Koepsell’s research interests focus on the nexus of ethics, law, and science. Specifically, while at Yale, he will be researching and writing on the ethical questions involved in the practice of bio-prospecting and patenting elements of the human genome. His project is entitled Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data.

David Smith, a 2006-2007 bioethicist in residence, joined the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington in 1967 and retired in 2003. He won teaching awards twice, one voted by students and the other awarded by faculty. In 1983 he became director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. During his twenty-year tenure the center received funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Exxon Educational Foundation, FIPSE, NIH, and NSF. Center projects focused on the teaching of ethics, care for the dying, research ethics, ethics and genetic testing, and corporate responsibility.

In 2003–2004, immediately after his retirement from Indiana University, Smith served as Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Yale. From 2004 through 2006 he was Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at Depauw University, where he helped start the Janet Prindle Institute of Ethics. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote Health and Medicine in the Anglican Tradition and Entrusted: The Moral Responsibilities of Trustees; he was the first author of Early Warning: Cases and Ethical Guidance for Presymptomatic Testing in Genetic Diseases. More recently he is lead editor of A Christian Response to the New Genetics and Good Intentions: Moral Obstacles and Opportunities. His Partnership with the Dying was published in 2005 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, a bioethicist in residence for 2006–2007, is co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. With John Grim, she organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. They are also editors for a series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Press.

Ms. Tucker is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989), and The Philosophy of Qi (forthcoming, Columbia University Press). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003, 2004). She also co-edited a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on the Earth as Sacred Community (Sierra Club and University of California Press, 2006)

Ms. Tucker received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in East Asian religions with a concentration in Confucianism in China and Japan. Until 2005 she was a professor of religion at Bucknell University, where she taught courses in Asian religions and Religion and Ecology. From 1993 to 1996 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities chair at Bucknell.

She is a Research Associate at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Reischauer Institute at Harvard. Since 1987 she has been a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). She served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997 to 2000 and is now a member of the Earth Charter International Council.

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