Jacob Hacker Reappointed as ISPS Director

Jacob Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, has been reappointed as Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies for the next three years, effective July 1, 2014.

“Through Jacob’s leadership,” President Salovey writes, “ISPS has focused on advancing social science research, understanding and shaping public policy, and developing the next generation of academic and policy leaders.”

In the first term of his directorship, Jacob Hacker has actively engaged Yale students in policy training by initiating two fellowship programs—the ISPS Policy Fellows for graduate students and the Director’s Fellow Program in Domestic Policy for undergraduates. Under his stewardship, ISPS has created a new center for Health Policy led by health economist Zack Cooper, and is developing a new initiative on inequality. In addition, a behavioral lab is set to open, and ISPS is continuing to support field experiments and other research, as well as host high-level conferences on a range of knotty domestic problems that social scientists can help untangle.