Team directory
Team directory
Steven Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Steven I. Wilkinson (Ph.D., MIT) is dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University. Prior to taking up the FAS dean position in January 2025 he served as Henry R.
Kira Wishart, Senior Administrative Assistant
Office Location: 77 Prospect Street
Email: kira.wishart@yale.edu
Fanmei Xia, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Fanmei Xia is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Her research interests are in reproduction, migration, and education. For her current project, she is focused on people’s reproductive decisions and the choice/intention of not having children. She employs multi-methods across different projects. Prior to Yale, she had a background in psychology, public policy, and economics.
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.
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.
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.
Emma Zang, Associate Professor of Sociology and Biostatistics
Emma Zang is an associate professor of sociology (with tenure) at Yale University, with secondary appointments in biostatistics and global affairs. She directs the Computational Aging, Family, and Evidence Lab (Z-CAFE) and serves as the founding faculty organizer of the Yale Population Studies Speaker Series, which brings together scholars working on population and health research. Zang completed her Ph.D. in public policy in 2019 and her M.A. in economics in 2017, both from Duke University.
Tina Zeng, Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026
Tina Zeng is a sophomore studying Global Affairs + Computing, Culture & Society. With her passions in public interest technology, democratic innovation and social entrepreneurship, she hopes to leverage technologies like AI for social impact. She aspires to pursue a career in public service that contributes to policy and legal frameworks that safeguard our civil liberties in the digital age.
Harrison Zhou, Henry Ford II Professor of Statistics & Data Science
Harrison Zhou, newly named as the Henry Ford II Professor of Statistics and Data Science, conducts his research on asymptotic decision theory, high dimensional statistics, large covariance matrices estimation, Bayesian nonparametrics, and network analysis.