Team directory
Team directory
Paul Marx, Visiting Faculty Fellow
Paul Marx is a professor of political economy at University of Bonn. He previously held positions at University of Southern Denmark as a professor of comparative political sociology and at the University of Duisburg-Essen as a professor of socio-economics. His research interests are related to social and political inequality, political behavior, comparative welfare state and labor market analysis, and the politics of taxation.
David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
David Mayhew is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory
Tracey L. Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, serving as Max Pam Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. She was the first African American woman to be granted tenure at both law schools.
Costas Meghir, Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics and Professor of Management
Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Manchester University. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Society for Labor Economics. He was awarded the Ragnar Frisch medal by the Econometric Society in 2000 and the Bodosakis Foundation prize in 1997. He has been co-editor of Econometrica and joint managing editor of the Economic Journal.
Adam Meirowitz, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science
Adam Meirowitz is the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Prior to that he was the Kem C. Gardner Professor of Finance in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah where he taught from 2015-2022. Before that he was the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he taught between 2002 and 2015. Meirowitz’s research focuses on the application of game theory to the study of governance and collective decision-making.
Mellissa Meisels, Postdoctoral Associate
Mellissa Meisels is a postdoctoral associate in ISPS’s Center for the Study of American Politics. In 2025, she will join Yale’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, where she was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Previously, I was a Democracy Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Rochester and earned her B.A.
Bilal Moin, Dahl Scholar 2021 - 2022
Bilal Moin is from Mumbai, India and reads Economics, Mathematics and Global Affairs in the Yale Class of 2024. He is interested in complex systems in the social sciences, especially in the context of social, and economic development.
As a Dahl Scholar, he will be working with Sterling Professor Ian Shapiro to analyze the political logic of pro-poor policy interventions. His project focuses on modelling the interactions between electoral strategies and development policy in Indian democracy to decipher its ‘paradox of poverty.’
Chima Ndumele, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Chima Ndumele is an Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health. His research is focused on better understanding factors which influence the way vulnerable populations connect with and access health care resources. Specifically, he conducts work in three areas. The first examines how changes in local policy environment impact the care received by Medicaid enrollees. The second area explores how safety-net organizations can improve health care services delivery.
Rourke O'Brien, Associate Professor of Sociology
Rourke O’Brien is an associate professor of sociology. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of social and economic inequalities with substantive interests in household and public finance, economic mobility and population health.
Cormac O'Dea, Assistant Professor of Economics
Cormac O’Dea is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in household saving, retirement and intergenerational links in economic outcomes.