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Itamar Yakir, Postdoctoral Associate

Itamar Yakir is a postdoctoral asssociate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and with Yale’s Identity and Conflict Lab. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.

Jiwon Yun, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025

Jiwon Yun is a PhD candidate in Sociology. His research interests are in race, ethnicity, migration, and organizational diversity. His dissertation explores the question of how we can bring marginalized populations to sectors that have historically been inaccessible to them, using the field of classical music as an example. To answer this question, he is currently conducting an ethnography of a nonprofit that provides a free music program to students from low-income, racial minority families in New England.

Peter Boseong Yun, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026

Peter Boseong Yun is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University. His research examines how work is organized and evaluated in contemporary labor markets, with particular attention to the role of technologies and workplaces. Drawing on large-scale survey data, his work explores how job definitions, credentials, and organizational contexts shape economic outcomes. As an ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, he will examine policy-relevant questions related to skills, work, and evaluation in science- and technology-adjacent settings.