Team directory: S
Team directory: S
Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology, Head of Silliman College
Laurie Santos is the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003.
Mark Schlesinger, Department Chair and Professor of Public Health
Mark Schlesinger is Department Chair and Professor of Health Policy, a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and past editor of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. Dr. Schlesinger’s research explores the determinants of public opinion about health and social policy, the influence of bounded rationality on medical consumers, the role of nonprofit organizations in American medicine.
Jason Schwartz, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Associate Professor in the History of Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Jason L. Schwartz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. His research examines vaccines and vaccination policy, decision-making in medical regulation and public health policy, and the structure and function of scientific expert advice to government. The overall focus of his work is on the ways in which evidence is interpreted, evaluated, and translated into regulation and policy in medicine and public health.
Fiona M. Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics
Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Her area of academic research is empirical industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition in areas such as pricing, entry, and product differentiation. Her published articles range widely across industries, from magazines, to shipping, to pharmaceuticals, to internet retailing, and are published in leading economics journals.
Jasjeet Sekhon, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Statistics & Data Science
Jasjeet S. Sekhon is Professor of Statistics & Data Science and Professor of Political Science at Yale. His research focuses on methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies and evaluating social science, public health and medical interventions.
Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Emily Sellars comes to Yale as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Sellars’ research interests are at the intersection of comparative political economy, development economics, and economic history. Her dissertation, “Essays on Emigration and Politics,” received the 2017 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy defended in the previous two years. Currently, she is working on several papers to be published in The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Development Economics.
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale University. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Victoria Siebor, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Victoria Siebor is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College majoring in Environmental Studies. She is interested in environmental law and policy, with a specific focus on environmental justice and renewable energy. She enjoys conducting fieldwork, whether it’s researching urban heat islands in Brooklyn, NY, or mapping southern Spain’s geological features. At Yale, she works as a Peer Mentor at the Office of Educational Opportunity and has served on the boards of the Yale Daily News, Yale Polish Students Society, and Yale Ballroom Dance Team.
Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political & Social Science
Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University. He is currently the Wynant Visiting Professor at the Rothermere American Institute, Balliol College Oxford. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.