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Yuting Qian

ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Yuting Qian is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with a concentration in Economics. She holds an MS in Health Policy and Economics from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Her research interests include public policies and the health of the aging population, particularly people with cognitive impairment. Her current work examines disparities in dementia diagnosis and the impact of diagnosis on the health and economic well-being of older adults.

Doug Rogers

Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Director of the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Douglas Rogers is Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Director of the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching interests in political and economic anthropology; natural resources (especially oil) and energy; corporations; the anthropology of religion and ethics; historical anthropology; and socialist societies and their postsocialist trajectories.

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 also served as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies from 2004-2019.

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. In 2019, he served as the Wynant Visiting Professor at the Rothermere American Institute, Balliol College Oxford. He has also been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and he has held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Nisheeth Vishnoi

A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science

Professor Nisheeth Vishnoi’s research spans several areas of theoretical computer science: from approximability of NP-hard problems, to combinatorial, convex and non-convex optimization, to tackling algorithmic questions involving dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and polynomials.

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