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Noam Gidron

PhD in Political Science, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE), Hebrew University.


Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance Fellow, Princeton University, 2017-2018.

Awarded Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers, The Israeli Council for Higher Education, 2019-2022.

Winner of the Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for best paper in comparative politics (with co-authors James Adams and Will Horne), Midwest Political Science Association, 2019.

Awarded Harvard University's Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation in international politics, 2016.

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Thad Williamson

PhD in Political Science, 2004.
Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond.


A recognized community leader on poverty reduction efforts in Richmond, Thad Williamson served as the first director of the city's Office of Community Wealth Building while on leave from the University during the 2014-16 academic years. 

Recipient of the Jepson Servant Leader Award from the Class of 2019 for his work to effect change in Richmond, Virginia, 2019.



Thad Williamson's book, Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life, has been published by Oxford University Press (2010).

Winner of the American Political Science Association's Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy, 2005.

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Francis X. Shen

JD and PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2006 and 2008.
Associate Professor of Law and McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota.
Executive Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior.


Francis X. Shen directs the Shen Neurolaw Lab at the University of Minnesota: "Every story is a brain story, and we focus our attention on the ways in which law and public policy can be improved through integration of brain science." He also serves as Executive Director of Education and Outreach activities for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

Francis X. Shen's latest book (with Owen D. Jones and Jeffrey D. Schall), is Law and Neuroscience, the first coursebook to cover the newly emerging field that explores both the promise within and the limitations of the intersection of these two disciplines. Wolters Kluwer (2014).

Francis X. Shen is co-author (with Douglas L. Kriner) of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities, Oxford University Press (2010).

Francis X. Shen's first book (with Kenneth K. Wong, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, and Stacey Rutledge), The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools, has been published  by Georgetown University Press (2007).

 

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Vesla M. Weaver

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2007.
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.


Named a Johns Hopkins University Gilman Scholar, distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university, 2018.

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of  New York for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences, 2016.

Weaver is at work on a new project that will map patterns of citizenship and governance across cities and neighborhoods called the Faces of American Democracy using an innovative technology that creates digital ‘wormholes’ called Portals.

Vesla Weaver's book with Amy Lerman, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control, documents the effects of increasing punishment and surveillance in America on democratic inclusion, particularly for the black urban poor. University of Chicago Press (2014).

Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book in Urban Politics, 2015.

Founding director, ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality, Yale University, 2015-2017.

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, and Traci R. Burch's (PhD '07) book, Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, has been published by Princeton University Press (2012).

Winner of  the American Political Science Association’s Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Dissertation Award, 2008.

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Natalie Bau

PhD in Public Policy, 2015.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UCLA.


CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, 2016-2018. One of 18 exceptional early-career researchers from diverse science and social science fields selected to the inaugural cohort of the  CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program, sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. 

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Elizabeth Linos

PhD in Public Policy, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Co-director, The People Lab


VP and Head of Research and Evaluation, Behavioral Insights Team – North America, 2016-2017.

Elizabeth Linos is a behavioral scientist and public management scholar. She is faculty co-director of The People Lab at UC Berkeley, which aims to transform the public sector by producing cutting-edge research on the people in government and the communities they serve.

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Ariel Dora Stern

PhD in Public Policy, 2014.
Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.


Named a Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2018.

Named a Hellman Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School, 2017.

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Adam Thomas

PhD in Public Policy, 2007.
Teaching Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.


From 2007 to 2011, Adam Thomas was the Research Director for the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families, which is housed in the Institution’s Economic Studies program. While at Brookings, Thomas led the effort to develop FamilyScape, an agent-based simulation model of family formation.

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Alexander Keyssar

Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy


Research interests: Historian, with a focus on explanation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. Election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.

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Natasha Kumar Warikoo

PhD in Sociology, 2005.
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.


Natasha Kumar Warikoo's next book, The Rules of the Game: Asian Americans, Whites, and the Quest for Excellence in Suburban America, will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Elected Guggenheim Fellow, 2017.

Natasha Warikoo's second book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, lluminates how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. University of Chicago Press (2016).

Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic MinoritiesOliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award, 2018.

Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award, 2018.

Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2018.

Natasha Kumar Warikoo's first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City, analyzes how youth cultures among children of immigrants are related to their orientations toward schooling through ethnographic, interview, and survey data in diverse New York and London high schools. University of California Press (2011).

Winner of the Thomas and Znaneicki Best Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012.

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