Graduate Policy Fellows

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Frances “Frankie” Barrett is a Ph.D. candidate in American studies. Her interdisciplinary research examines the history of discount retail in the late 20th century as well as its role in contemporary society. This topic highlights important developments in the relationship between corporate and state actors in the past century with significant implications for U.S. labor and domestic socioeconomic policies.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Tamara Beetham is a Ph.D. candidate in health policy and management with a health economics concentration. Her research primarily focuses on access to evidence-based behavioral health care for those who are medically underserved and the effects of policy on treatment provision. Her research has been published in journals such as JAMA, Health Affairs, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Harvard Public Health Review and featured in media outlets such as National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and Reuters.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Gregory Briker is a J.D./Ph.D. student in law and history. His research interests include United States legal and urban history; local government, property, and criminal law; and the relationship between law and social movements. As an ISPS fellow, he studies the development of specialized gang crime units in prosecutors’ offices during the late 20th century.

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Shefali Gauri Das is a Ph.D. student in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology and a Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on relationships between labor, capitalism, race, and inequality. Her B.A. honors thesis, advised by Michael Mark Cohen, examined the criminal legal system’s use of fines and fees and the effects of neoliberalism and capitalism on state violence and policing.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Lukey Ellsberg (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in religious studies and history of science/history of medicine. Their research on nuclear testing and scenario planning in the 1940s-70s aims to dismantle the myth of “nuclear peace” and re-center the material consequences of stockpiling nuclear weapons. As an ISPS fellow, Ellsberg will focus on the role of public education campaigns in assuring support for investment in nuclear weapons. 

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Micah English is a student worker in the Political Science Department interested primarily in American politics. English researches Black political behavior and social movements and their intersections with the politics of gender and sexuality. She received her undergraduate degree in political science from Duke University.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Hope Harrington is joint J.D./Ph.D student at Yale Law School and the social psychology program at Yale. She studies the factors that weaken people’s trust in publicly funded institutions and how to mitigate these. Broadly speaking, her work examines the relationship between judgements of institutions and the behavior of constituent members.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023

Kevin Keller is a Ph.D. candidate in history. He studies the interconnected topics of law, finance, and international development. Before coming to Yale, he worked briefly as a lawyer, and before that he spent several years in the international development sector. His dissertation will be a history of Chinese lending to sovereign borrowers across the global South from the 1990s through today.

ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2023
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ISPS Policy Fellow 2023

Adam Posluns is a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale, and a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project. His research interests include surveillance and digital privacy, online speech and misinformation, and constitutional and legal theory. As an ISPS fellow, he is researching how political polarization is affecting conceptions of legitimacy in judicial decisions.

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