Faculty Fellows

Costas Meghir

Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Manchester University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow of the Econometric Society, fellow of the British Academy, and fellow of the Society for Labor Economics. He was awarded the Ragnar Frisch medal by the Econometric Society in 2000 and the Bodosakis Foundation prize in 1997. He has been co-editor of Econometrica and joint managing editor of the Economic Journal.

Adam Meirowitz

Damon Wells Professor of Political Science

Adam Meirowitz is the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Prior to that he was the Kem C. Gardner Professor of Finance in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah where he taught from 2015-2022. Before that he was the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he taught between 2002 and 2015.

Mellissa Meisels

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Mellissa Meisels is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale and a Democracy Center visiting scholar at the University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D.

Rourke O'Brien

Associate Professor of Sociology

Rourke O’Brien is an associate professor of sociology. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of social and economic inequalities with substantive interests in household and public finance, economic mobility, and population health.

Rohini Pande

Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics

Jasjeet Sekhon

External Faculty Fellow

Jasjeet Sekhon is chief scientist and head of AI/ML at Bridgewater Associates, and his research spans causal inference, machine learning, and experimental design, with applications in political science, economics, and epidemiology. Currently, his work focuses on developing and deploying AI systems in biomedical and social decision settings, addressing AI risk, and creating interpretable methods for finding and estimating causal relationships.

Emily Sellars

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Emily Sellars is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Sellars’ research interests are at the intersection of comparative political economy, development economics, and economic history. Her dissertation, “Essays on Emigration and Politics,” received the 2017 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy defended in the previous two years. Currently, she is working on several papers to be published in The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Development Economics.

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.

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.

Philip Smith

Professor of Sociology; Associate Director Center for Cultural Sociology

Philip Smith works in the area of cultural sociology and cultural theory. He is responsible for a dozen books and over sixty articles and chapters. His most recent book is Durkheim and After (Polity 2020) which offers an intellectual history of the Durkheimian paradigm from its beginnings until today.

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Faculty Fellows