Team directory
Team directory
Ana De La O, Associate Professor of Political Science
Ana De La O Torres is an associate professor of political science and in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, with affiliations at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism, and the provision of public goods.
Elizabeth Dejanikus, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Elizabeth Dejanikus is a junior in Timothy Dwight College from Seattle, WA. She is majoring in political science and humanities, and is particularly interested in comparative politics and constitutional law. On campus, she works for the Yale Law Journal, leads First-year Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT), and, as of late, dabbles in theater.
Kevin DeLuca, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Kevin DeLuca is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and resident fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. His research interests include political economy and political representation, with a focus on elections, election laws, and the role of the media in the political process.
Nihar Desai, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, an Investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and Executive Director for Bundled Payments and Clinical Service Line Operations at the Yale New Haven Health System.
Danil Dmitriev, Postdoctoral Associate
Danil Dmitriev is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2023. His research interests lie in microeconomic theory, particularly in the areas of political economy, organizational economics, and social learning.
Daniel Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of the Environment and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School
Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments at Yale’s Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance.
Amir Fairdosi, Lecturer in Political Science, Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of American Politics
Amir Shawn Fairdosi is a Lecturer in Political Science and an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of American Politics. He teaches classes on American politics, legislative procedure, and political socialization. His current research examines how political institutions influence political attitudes and behavior.
Kellianne Farnham, Registrar, Ethics, Politics & Economics
Office Location: 31 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 109
Phone: 203-436-3699
Email: kellianne.farnham@yale.edu
Justin Farrell, Professor of Sociology
Justin Farrell is a professor and author at Yale University, School of the Environment.
He studies culture and environment, with a focus on social class, moral conflict, and epistemology. He blends ethnographic fieldwork in rural communities with large-scale computational techniques from network science and machine learning.
Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Eli Fenichel’s research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time. This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. His research is applied in a wide variety of systems including: natural capital valuation, fisheries, infectious disease, groundwater, tropical forests, and grasslands.