Affiliated Faculty

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• Avner Greif, Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, Department of Economics 
  Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
  Research interests:  Historical and theoretical analysis of institutions, particularly informal contract enforcement institutions, and the institutional foundations of the state and the market (with a focus on the Late Medieval period); game theory, particularly the theory of repeated games.

• Steve Haber, the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Science; the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
  Senior Fellow, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform; Senior Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research; Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research
  Research interests: Comparative economic history of Latin America; institutions and their effects on Latin American economic performance; social science history methods. 
   
• Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca  Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Department of Classics
  Research interests: Ancient Mediterranean social and economic history, particularly Greece in the 1st millennium B.C.; archaeology; comparative history.
   
• Petra Moser, Assistant Professor of Economics
  Research interests:  Economic history; economics of innovations; design of optimal policies to encourage innovation, including empirical studies of the effects of patent pools and compulsory licensing on innovation.
  
  
• Josiah Ober, Constantine Mitsotakis Professsor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
  Research interests:  Ancient Greek history, with a recent focus on Athenian democracy and Greek political thought; self-governing organizations (ancient and modern) and the circulation of social and technical knowledge in democratic societies, the interplay between political philosophy and culture.
   
• Paul Sniderman, Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Department of Political Science
  Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  Research interests:  Political psychology; the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism; American politics; public opinion; democratic theory.  
   
• Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics
  Research interests:  The study of history and human behavior in the Greco-Roman world, with a focus on 1) critical determinants of well-being (via the study of organization of labor in Roman farming, demographic conditions in the ancient Mediterranean, and mortality patterns); 2) cross-cultural comparative studies (via the study of economic development, empire, and slavery) ; and historical demography (via the study of interdependence of demography and disease; and in pre-modern societies, nuclear-family incest). 
   
• Michael Tomz, Associate Professor of Political Science
  Research interests:  International political economy; Latin America; statistical methods; elections.  
  
  
• Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics
  Research interests: Historical performance of the US economy incomparative and international context;The economics of slavery and economic development; Comparative technological choices in the world textiles industry between 1870 and 1930