Team directory: M

Team directory: M

Isabela Mares

Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science

Isabela Mares is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and the Director of the European Union Center at Yale. She specializes in the comparative politics of Europe. Professor Mares has written extensively on labor market and social policy reforms, the political economy of taxation, electoral clientelism, reforms limiting electoral corruption. Her current research examines the political responses to antiparliamentarism in both contemporary and historical settings.

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Carolina Marques de Mesquita , ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Carolina is a third year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Her research explores environmental politics, social movements, and political culture with a focus on the US and Brazil. Through the ISPS Graduate Policy Fellowship, she will investigate the rise of youth-led climate change litigation. Prior to attending Yale, Carolina worked in the nonprofit sector and taught English through the Fulbright US Student Program in Portugal.

Sterling Professor of Political Science

David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

David Mayhew is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science.

Tracey Meares

Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Tracey L. Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, serving as Max Pam Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. She was the first African American woman to be granted tenure at both law schools.

Costas Meghir

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

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. Meirowitz’s research focuses on the application of game theory to the study of governance and collective decision-making.

Mellissa Meisels

Mellissa Meisels, Postdoctoral Associate

Mellissa Meisels is a postdoctoral associate in ISPS’s Center for the Study of American Politics. In 2025, she will join Yale’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, where she was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Previously, she was a Democracy Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Rochester and earned her B.A.

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Araya Miller, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Araya Miller is a junior at Yale College majoring in Political Science and pursuing an Education Studies Certificate. She is passionate about working directly with communities to develop innovative ways to reform the criminal legal system and reduce mass incarceration in America. She views quality education as a potential solution to various social inequalities and has made strides to make education more accessible to marginalized communities.