Team directory
Team directory
Stephen Latham, Director Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Senior Lecturer Political Science; Lecturer School of Management
Stephen R. Latham became Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics in 2011, having been Deputy Director since 2008. For the previous nine years, he had been Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at Quinnipiac University School of Law; during that time, he also taught business ethics at the Yale School of Management each year. Before entering academia full-time, Latham served as Director of Ethics Standards at the American Medical Association, and as secretary to its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.
Seulki Lee-Geiller, Associate Research Scientist
Seulki Lee-Geiller is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, focusing on Democratic Innovations. Her interdisciplinary work combines political science, public policy, and technology, aimed at addressing rapidly evolving societal challenges from a governance perspective. She has explored the effects of technology on citizen-government interactions and is currently researching open government policies, delving into their nature, the dynamics of global policy transfer, and the driving forces of this trend.
Jim Levinsohn, Dean, Jackson School of Global Affairs & Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, Professor of Economics and Management
Professor James Levinsohn is the inaugural dean of the Jackson School and in that capacity he oversees the Global Affairs major in Yale College, the Global Affairs MPP and MAS programs, and the Yale World Fellows Program. Outside of Yale, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has consulted for many government and non-governmental organizations as well as many multinational corporations.
Becca Levy, Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) and Psychology; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Levy’s research explores psychosocial factors that influence older individuals’ cognitive and physical functioning, as well as their longevity. She is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, can have beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on the health of older individuals.Her studies have been conducted by longitudinal, experimental, and cross-cultural methods.
Julia Lin, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Julia Lin is a junior in Silliman College majoring in Sociology on the intensive track. She is interested in workforce, labor, and immigration policy. In the past, she has interned for the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and has held roles with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and Rank the Vote. On campus, she is a Research Assistant for Professor DeLuca and a counselor for the Yale & You program. During her time at Yale, she has served on the board of Yale Votes: A Student Initiative and the Rural Students Alliance at Yale.
Zachary Liscow,
Zachary Liscow is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His wide-ranging work in law and economics currently covers tax policy, benefit-cost analysis, and infrastructure construction costs. He is particularly interested in developing cost-effective policies to address inequality and understanding what drives the high costs of building U.S. infrastructure. He has also worked in a variety of other areas, including environmental policy and empirical legal studies.
Zhouyan Liu, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Zhouyan Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. His research interests include authoritarian politics and historical political economy. He is currently working on a project concerning diasporas from authoritarian countries and the political consequences of migration in both sending and receiving countries, with a particular focus on China as an empirical case. Prior to attending Yale, he worked as an investigative journalist for four years at one of China’s largest news magazines, Sanlian Life Weekly. He received his B.A. from Peking University and M.P.P.
Mackenzie Lockhart, Postdoctoral Associate
Mackenzie Lockhart is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego in 2023. His research focuses on elections, representation, and public opinion with particular focus on how voters behave in American elections and consequences for representation.
Alexander Love, Postdoctoral Associate
Alexander Love is a Democratic Innovations Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he earned his M.A. in Political Science from UNC and his B.A. in Public Policy and Data Analytics from William & Mary.
Itay Machtei, Postdoctoral Associate
Itay Machtei is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) based at the ISPS’s American Political Economy eXchange (APEX) program. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025.