Team directory
Team directory
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.
Jacob Wallace, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Jacob Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health whose primary research interest is Medicaid. He is a health economist by training and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to that he worked as a policy analyst for the New York State Department of Health in the Office of Health Insurance Programs for three years. His research is focused on the economics of the Medicaid program, with a particular focus on the impact of managed care.
Arjun Warrior, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Arjun Warrior is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight college, studying America’s ongoing democratic crisis. He’s interested in institutions and movements that foster social justice and democracy, especially in the face of state oppression. In practice, this means he’s passionate about constitutional design, electoral reform, workplace democracy, unionization, social welfare, and mutual aid. He’s worked on organizing, policy, and speechwriting for progressive campaigns and elected officials in his hometown of Irvine, California.
Klaudia Wegschaider, Postdoctoral Associate
Klaudia Wegschaider joins the Institution for Social and Policy Studies as a Democratic Innovations postdoctoral associate. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, especially enfranchisement. Methodologically, she is primarily a qualitative researcher and combines case studies with quantitative and experimental methods.
Keith Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law
Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington’s teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law. He is the author of You Can’t Teach That!
David Wilkinson, Senior Fellow
Mr. Wilkinson served as Connecticut’s Chief Performance Officer, a cabinet level role in which he set up interagency data sharing and performance management systems to build a more effective government. In a previous role, as head of the White House Office of Social Innovation under President Obama, he led efforts in favor of results-driven government and the use of data and data science for the public good.
Steven Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Steven Wilkinson is Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, professor of political science and international affairs, Henry R.
Kira Wishart, Senior Administrative Assistant
Office Location: 77 Prospect Street
Email: kira.wishart@yale.edu
Megan Wright, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Megan Wright spent more than a decade as a professional dancer in New York and San Francisco. Her experiences in the dance industry led her to worker organizing and brought her to the City University of New York’s School of Labor & Urban Studies, where she studied labor relations. She came to Yale in her thirties as an Eli Whitney undergraduate student. Wright is majoring in economics with a certificate in Persian & Iranian Studies.