Team directory
Team directory
Elijah St Martin, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026
Elijah St Martin is a BA/MPH candidate from New Orleans, Louisiana, majoring in Sociology with a certificate in Education Studies. Their academic and professional interests center on health equity, education access, and the social determinants of health, particularly in how these forces shape outcomes for marginalized communities. At Yale, Elijah conducts public health research with the KaCHANGE Lab, engages in policy-oriented initiatives through the Yale Policy Institute, and participates in community-based programming as a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow with Project Access–New Haven.
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.
Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Dr. Tinetti is the Gladys Philips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. Her current research and clinical focus is on clinical decision-making for older adults in the face of multiple health conditions, measuring the net benefit and harms of commonly used medications, and the importance of cross-disease universal health outcomes.
Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory
Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, as well as a Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. He is also a professor (by courtesy) at the Yale School of Management. He joined the Yale Law faculty in January 2012 as a professor of law and psychology. He was previously a University Professor at New York University, where he taught in both the psychology department and the law school.
Nisheeth Vishnoi, A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science
Professor Nisheeth Vishnoi’s research spans several areas of theoretical computer science: from approximability of NP-hard problems, to combinatorial, convex and non-convex optimization, to tackling algorithmic questions involving dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and polynomials.