Team directory
Team directory
Victoria Siebor, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Victoria Siebor is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College majoring in Environmental Studies. She is interested in environmental law and policy, with a specific focus on environmental justice and renewable energy. She enjoys conducting fieldwork, whether it’s researching urban heat islands in Brooklyn, NY, or mapping southern Spain’s geological features. At Yale, she works as a Peer Mentor at the Office of Educational Opportunity and has served on the boards of the Yale Daily News, Yale Polish Students Society, and Yale Ballroom Dance Team.
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), a PhD candidate at the University of Konstanz, and an associated researcher at “The Politics of Inequality” Research Cluster at the University of Konstanz. His research interests include tax policy, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences. Patrick holds 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.
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.