Team directory: S
Team directory: S
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.
Dara Strolovitch, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Professor of American Studies and Political Science
Dara Z. Strolovitch is a professor of women’s gender, and sexuality studies; American studies, and political science at Yale, where her research and teaching focus on political representation, social movements, and the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She received her B.A. in political Sscience from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in political Sscience from Yale. She taught previously at the University of Minnesota and at Princeton University.
Patrick Sullivan, Postdoctoral Associate
Patrick is a postdoctoral associate at ISPS’s American Political Economy eXchange (APEX). His research interests include tax policy, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences. Patrick holds a Ph.D. from the University of Konstanz and a bachelor’s degree in secondary education social studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also majored in history, political science, and economics. He did his master’s in public policy at the Hertie School in Berlin. Patrick is originally from Milwaukee, Wis. and is an avid Green Bay Packers fan.
Manu Sundaresan, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026
Manu S. Sundaresan is an MD-PhD student admitted to the Department of Sociology. His previous work includes pre-trial programming and post-conviction legal advocacy, and now examines differential treatment of criminalised populations under law.
Milan Svolik, Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science
Milan Svolik is Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, and formal political theory.
He has authored and co-authored articles on the politics of authoritarian regimes and democratization in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.
Peter Swenson, C.M. Saden Professor of Political Science
Peter A. Swenson is Yale’s C.M. Saden Professor of Political Science. He specializes in the comparative political economy of labor markets and social welfare in Europe and the United States. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the economic, political and social foundations of social policy and market regulation in developed capitalist democracies.