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ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Max is a junior in Grace Hopper College majoring in History with a concentration in International and Diplomatic History. He is particularly interested in government efficiency, focusing on how regulations and bureaucratic processes can hinder policy implementation. He also studies the political consequences of deindustrialization and the loss of faith in democratic institutions. Max has held several policy and research positions, most recently working on American foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Richard (Richie) George is a sophomore at Yale University studying history. He is interested in building data-informed and community-based solutions for public safety and criminal justice, beyond the carceral state. Their interests extend more broadly to racial justice, democratic governance, and social welfare. Recently, they collaborated with researchers at Columbia University to create quantitative models examining the long-term effects of incarceration on formerly incarcerated people in the United States, considering race, education, and socioeconomic status.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Ai-Li Hollander is a sophomore in Morse College studying History and pursuing a certificate in Mandarin Chinese. Before coming to Yale, she worked with different nonprofits throughout the American South in the federal service program AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC). Informed by her experiences on disaster recovery projects, she is interested in emergency management, climate adaptation, and environmental justice. On campus, she plays with the Ultimate Frisbee team “Ramona Quimby” and plants trees with high schoolers for Urban Resources Initiative.

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.

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