Team directory
Team directory
Matthew Jennings, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Matthew Jennings is a junior in Pauli Murray College from Killingworth, Connecticut. He majors in history and political science with an interdisciplinary concentration in the American judiciary and jurisprudence. Matthew is passionate about finding public policy and legal solutions for issues like LGBTQ+ discrimination and ballot access. At Yale, he founded and co-leads the Yale Undergraduate Law Journal and works at the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Yale Law School Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law.
Katherine Johnson, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Katherine Johnson is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles college majoring in Political Science. She is from Atlanta, Georgia, a city which has inspired many of her policy interests. Katherine is passionate about serving underserved communities and is particularly interested in social justice, promoting quality education in communities of color, and climate policy. At Yale, Katherine is on the board of the Generational African American Student Association.
Joshua Kalla, Associate Professor of Political Science
Joshua Kalla is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University with a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (2018). His research studies political persuasion, prejudice reduction, and decision-making among voters and political elites, primarily through the use of randomized field experiments.
Grace Kao, IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Secondary); Faculty Director; Education Studies; Director, Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI)
Grace Kao is IBM Professor of Sociology; professor of ethnicity, race, and migration; faculty director of education studies; and director of the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI). She studies race, ethnicity, and immigration as they collectively relate to education and relationships among young people. She also has interests in the effects of migration on young people and has written papers on these topics in Mexico, China, and Spain.
Edward Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Professor of Public Health & Professor of Engineering
Professor Kaplan’s research has been reported on the front pages of the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post, editorialized in the Wall Street Journal, recognized by the New York Times Magazine’s Year in Ideas, and discussed in many other major media outlets. The author of more than 125 research articles, Professor Kaplan received both the Lanchester Prize and the Edelman Award, two top honors in the operations research field, among many other awards.
Daniel Karell, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Daniel Karell’s research interests lie at the intersection of culture, communication, and contentious politics. Much of his work draws on digital media data and computational methodologies. Some of Daniel’s current projects examine: how social media shape instances of political unrest and violence; the role of discourse and networks in the growth of extremist online communities; and how people justify and tolerate violence against members of other groups.
Nida Khan, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Nida Khan is a Junior in Morse College majoring in Urban Studies. She is a native of Balochistan, Pakistan but has called ten different cities home. She is interested in the power of the built environment to shape a sustainable and equitable future. Through her work as a peer mentor in the disability and transfer communities, an intern with the Yale Law Journal, and research on neuroaesthetics and urbanism, she hopes to contribute positively to her community, both locally and globally.
Christina Kinane, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Christina M. Kinane is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a resident faculty fellow at the Institution of Social and Policy Studies. Broadly, she studies the role of legislatures, executives, and the bureaucracy in policymaking. In particular, her current research examines how presidents strategically use vacancies in top appointments to promote their policy priorities within the framework of interbranch bargaining. Professor Kinane teaches courses on American politics and U.S. executive politics.
Marissa King, Professor of Management and Sociology
Marissa King is an Professor in the School of Management with a secondary appointment in Sociology. Professor King’s current research examines patterns of antidepressant, stimulant, and antipsychotic utilization. In general, her research analyzes the spatial and temporal dimensions of innovation and diffusion. To understand how large-scale phenomena arise from local behavior, she has studied cases ranging from the rise in autism prevalence during the past decade to the organizational foundations of the antislavery movement in the late 19th century.
Jennifer Klein, Bradford Durfee Professor of History
Jennifer Klein is Durfee Professor of History in the field of 20th Century US history. She earned her B.A. at Barnard College, her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and first came to Yale as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellow in Health Policy.