Team directory

Team directory

Danil Dmitriev

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.

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Sebastian Duque, ISPS Director's Fellow 2023

Sebastian Duque is a junior in Branford College majoring in environmental studies and political science. He is from Miami, where his family settled down after migrating from Colombia when he was 6. Duque is interested in environmental policy and is particularly passionate about incorporating cross-disciplinary environmental justice issues into public policy. In the past, he’s worked as an environmental justice fellow at Dejusticia and a development intern at Common Ground.

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Nasser Eid, ISPS Director's Fellow 2023

Nasser Eid is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College interested in studying political science and African American studies. Nasser describes himself as inspired by the prophetic fire of James Baldwin and the moral energy of John Coltrane. As a Muslim, Eid speaks of his dedication to faith-based approaches to building peace, love, and joy in our world. He is interested in critically engaging with revolutionary faith, political rebellion, and racial justice.

Daniel Esty

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

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

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

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.

Howard Forman

Howard Forman, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Professor of Economics, Management, and Public Health (Health Policy)

Howie Forman is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University. He came to Yale as a practicing diagnostic radiologist and remains an active clinician in the YNHH Emergency Room, where he also functions as the deputy operational chief for Radiology. Since 1998, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on healthcare policy, economics, finance, and leadership.

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Tylir Fowler, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2024

Tylir Fowler is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. His research interests are in political economy, history, and formal political theory with a focus on democratic backsliding, populism, backlash against globalisation and migration, and the politics of financial crises.