Team directory
Team directory
Jack Dozier, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026
Jack Dozier is a junior in Yale College studying towards a BA/MA in political science, which a certificate in journalism. He is the Director of the Yale Youth Poll, a national research poll studying the additudes of young Americans, which is housed at the ISPS and is a reader for The Yale Review. His studies focus primarily on public opinion research and American political parties. He is from North Garden, Virginia, and is in Saybrook College.
Jessica Duda, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Jessica Duda is a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology. Her research investigates cognitive mechanisms of depression and anxiety, integrating self-report, behavioral tasks, computational modeling, and neuroimaging. She is particularly interested in how people perceive and cope with uncertain conditions across development, and the role of these processes in internalizing pathology. As an ISPS fellow, she is examining how uncertainty around the current legislative climate contributes to anxiety and depression in LGBTQ+ youth.
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.
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.
Zainab Firdausi, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Zainab Firdausi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory. She is currently writing her dissertation which investigates plural conceptions of political legitimacy of the administrative state. A strong believer of the need to interact policy with theory, her research interests span democratic theory, economic inequality, modern US history, and legal history. Through ISPS, Zainab seeks to study the quality of democratic participation in administrative policymaking.
Abigail Friedman, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Abigail S. Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the policy determinants of tobacco use and disparities therein, with the overarching goal of informing and facilitating evidence-based policymaking to improve population health and reduce inequality. A health economist by training, she conducts work in three areas.
Sabbi Gale-Donnelly, Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026
Sabbi Gale-Donnelly (she/they) is a third-year who studies Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She focuses in part on how theories of language can be utilized to measure the strength of, and effectively bolster, systems of governance. Sabbi has worked in government at the state and federal level, including most recently as an intern to the office of U.S. Senator Gillibrand, where she developed recommendations for the improvement of health insurance accessibility for long-term vector-borne disease patients.
Jennifer Gandhi, Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science; Deputy Dean, Jackson School of Global Affairs
Jennifer Gandhi is the Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science and Deputy Dean, Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her research interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on authoritarian regimes and transitions to and from democracy.