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Elisa Celis
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Elisa Celis is an assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science department at Yale University. She studies the manifestation of social and economic biases in our online lives via the algorithms that encode and perpetuate them. Her research leverages both experimental and theoretical approaches, and her work spans multiple disciplines including data science, machine learning, fairness in socio-technical systems and algorithm design.

At Yale she co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Sarah Izel Copeland is a junior in Pauli Murray College from Jacksonville, FL. As an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major, she is particularly interested in asylum policy, migrant identity, immigrant integration, and mixed methods research approaches, along with processes of decolonization and resistance. At Yale, Sarah conducts research for the Yale Policy Institute, Yale Law School’s Lowenstein Project, and the MacMillan Center on topics related to migration and Latin America.

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ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Elizabeth Dejanikus is a junior in Timothy Dwight College from Seattle, WA. She is majoring in political science and humanities, and is particularly interested in comparative politics and constitutional law. On campus, she works for the Yale Law Journal, leads First-year Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT), and, as of late, dabbles in theater.

Justin Farrell
Professor of Sociology

Justin Farrell is a professor and author at Yale University, School of the Environment.

He studies culture and environment, with a focus on social class, moral conflict, and epistemology. He blends ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities with large-scale computational techniques from network science and machine learning. 

Cameron Greene
Dahl Scholar, 2022 - 2023

As a Dahl Scholar, Cameron works with Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science Isabela Mares to uncover the political determinants of economic inequality via legislative debates on the inheritance tax. His individual research focuses on causes of economic inequality in the United States, especially opposition to the estate tax since the 1960s.

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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.

Rohan Krishnan
Dahl Scholar, 2022 - 2023

Rohan Krishnan is a junior at Yale majoring in Global Affairs. He is particularly interested in foreign policy in the Middle East and enjoys spending his time volunteering for refugees. As part of the Dahl program, Rohan will be working with Professor Emily Sellars to better analyze the economic incentives behind the Abraham Accords.

Stephen Latham
Director Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Senior Lecturer Political Science; Lecturer School of Management

Stephen R. Latham became Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics in 2011, having been Deputy Director since 2008.  For the previous nine years, he had been Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at Quinnipiac University School of Law; during that time, he also taught business ethics at the Yale School of Management each year. Before entering academia full-time, Latham served as Director of Ethics Standards at the American Medical Association, and as secretary to its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.

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Dahl Scholar, 2023-2024

Caleb Lee is a junior majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics with a certificate in Data Science. As a Dahl Scholar, under the advisory of Professor Alan Gerber, he is researching the status quo of literacy instruction programming for incarcerated individuals with the aim of providing direction for future improvement. This project involves close collaboration with nonprofits and correctional facilities and utilizes data analysis and a thorough literature review in order to produce a pioneering report that both researchers and policymakers can use to improve education in prison.

ISPS Director's Fellow 2024

Jenny Lee is a junior in Saybrook College studying Economics and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, informed by her experience as a 1.5-generation Korean American raised in Seattle. Lee studies community movements anchored in Asian American feminisms, disability justice, and ethnic studies education & literature. Deepened by her commitment to combating domestic and gendered violence, her work has brought her to conducting research at Reproductive Freedom for All (NARAL) and engaging in political education at the Yale Asian American Cultural Center.

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