Team directory: F
Team directory: F
Amir Fairdosi, Lecturer in Political Science, Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of American Politics
Amir Shawn Fairdosi is a Lecturer in Political Science and an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of American Politics. He teaches classes on American politics, legislative procedure, and political socialization. His current research examines how political institutions influence political attitudes and behavior.
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.
Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Eli Fenichel’s research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time. This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. His research is applied in a wide variety of systems including: natural capital valuation, fisheries, infectious disease, groundwater, tropical forests, and grasslands.
Sarina Fereydooni, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Sarina Fereydooni is a junior in Ezra Stiles College on the pre-law track majoring in intensive Political Science and pursuing a Global Health Certificate. Her research focuses on accessibility barriers to federally funded social safety net programs and their impact on public health outcomes. On campus, she serves as a Project Leader for the Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association, works with the Yale Law School Lowenstein Project, and is part of a Yale School of Public Health research team dedicated to training refugees as community healthcare workers.
Zainab Firdausi, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Zainab Firdausi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory. She is currently writing her dissertation which investigates plural conceptions of political legitimacy of the administrative state. A strong believer of the need to interact policy with theory, her research interests span democratic theory, economic inequality, modern US history, and legal history. Through ISPS, Zainab seeks to study the quality of democratic participation in administrative policymaking.
Maxwell Fisher, 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.
Howard Forman, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Professor of Economics, Management, and Public Health (Health Policy)
Howie Forman is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University. He came to Yale as a practicing diagnostic radiologist and remains an active clinician in the YNHH Emergency Room, where he also functions as the deputy operational chief for Radiology. Since 1998, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on healthcare policy, economics, finance, and leadership.
Tylir Fowler, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2024
Tylir Fowler is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. His research interests are in political economy, history, and formal political theory with a focus on democratic backsliding, populism, backlash against globalisation and migration, and the politics of financial crises.
Abigail Friedman, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Abigail S. Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the policy determinants of tobacco use and disparities therein, with the overarching goal of informing and facilitating evidence-based policymaking to improve population health and reduce inequality. A health economist by training, she conducts work in three areas.
Jiawei Fu, Postdoctoral Associate
Jiawei Fu is a postdoctoral associate in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, collaborating with Donald Green (Columbia University) and Alan Gerber on political methodology. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and will be entering the job market for the 2024-25 academic year.