Team directory
Team directory
Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science
David Mayhew is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Lucy McCurdy, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2021
Lucy McCurdy is a Junior in Berkeley college from Washington, DC. She is majoring in Ethics, Politics & Economics and is specifically interested in issues of procedural justice and American executive branch politics. At Yale, Lucy has served as a board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and as the Vice President of Every Vote Counts.
William McGrew, Dahl Scholar, 2015 - 2016
As a Dahl Scholar, Will McGrew helped ISPS Director Jacob Hacker with the research, sourcing, and editing for his book American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. He also completed an independent research project on the effects of social segregation by gender in American colleges on intergroup biases, rates of sexual violence on campus, and professional disparities after graduation.
Torey McMurdo, Graduate Student, Political Science
Torey McMurdo is a Ph.D. student in political science, focusing on U.S. foreign policy and international security. Her interests lie at the nexus of international relations, American politics and comparative politics. Her ISPS research examines Congressional oversight of the NSA, and whether this differs from the rest of the Intelligence Community. In addition to ISPS, McMurdo also serves as a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and a Graduate Affiliate at Davenport College.
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law
Tracey L. Meares is Walton Hale Hamilton Professor at Yale Law School. Before arriving at Yale Law School, she was Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School. She has held positions clerking for the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Sarah Merchant, Dahl Scholar, 2016 - 2017
As a Dahl Scholar, Sarah Merchant worked with ISPS Director Jacob Hacker and built off of the research she did for her thesis where she studied the Black-white wealth gap in the US over time and looked at how the gap was affected by the 2008 housing crisis. She then extended this national analysis to the state-level by looking at the racial differences in foreclosures in Connecticut and describing the role of racial differences in high-cost loans in creating racial disparities in foreclosures.
Hovik Minasyan, Dahl Scholar, 2020 - 2021
As a Dahl Scholar, Hovik Minasyan will work with Professor Ian Shapiro to see if changes in tangible economic indicators such as disposable income, unemployment, and rent costs lead to higher rates of voting for populists during Congressional and Presidential primaries in the United States. Hovik is a junior studying political science and wishes to pursue a career in public policy and academia.
Anne Mishkind,
Anne Mishkind is a doctoral candidate in the Political Science department with research interests in education policy, civic subject formation, history of political thought, feminist social epistemology, and postcolonial studies. Her ISPS Policy Fellows project analyzes the language, discourse, and rhetoric of school behavior management policies, specifically the rules, norms, surveillance techniques, risk-management procedures, and behavioral strategies that together govern and regulate the school environment.
