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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2024

Beck Boorstein is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. They also previously earned their J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School. Their research interests include the history of the regulation of disability; labor history; and topics in administrative, health, and tort law. As an ISPS fellow, they will conduct research on the relationship between service worker unions and federal administrative agencies.

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Dahl Scholar, 2023-2024

Ellie Burke (she/her) is a senior history major in Silliman College from Kansas City, Missouri. Her research interests include studying the role of art and culture in social movements. Her thesis explored the impacts of the South African musical Sarafina! on anti-apartheid protest in the United States with advisor Professor Daniel Magaziner. As a Dahl Scholar, Ellie examined American foreign policy toward the South African apartheid regime from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.

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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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Kate Reynolds is a junior in Branford College studying History. She is interested in the intersection between public education, electoral politics, and the law. At Yale, Kate previously served as the Print Managing Editor of The Politic and the Communications Director for the Yale College Democrats. She’s passionate about improving the efficiency of local government — particularly within her hometown of New York City, where she spent last summer as an education policy intern at a city agency. In the future, she hopes to work in journalism or public policy.

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