Social sciences institute names next year’s faculty fellows

by on June 6, 2011 4:00 am
Categories: In the Spotlight, On the Move

Seven Stanford faculty members and one visiting scholar have been named 2011-12 faculty fellows at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS).

  • JENNIFER ADAMS, assistant professor of education, whose project is titled “Modes of Mobility in a Changing China: Rural Youth Strategies for Escaping Poverty”
  • LISA BLAYDES, assistant professor of political science, whose research is titled “Repression, Resistance and Regime Durability in Authoritarian Iraq”
  • GARY W. COX, professor of political science, who will pursue research on “Regime Type, Bargaining and Politico-Economic Development”
  • KALINA MANOVA, assistant professor of economics, who is studying “China’s International Trade and Investment”
  • SUSAN OLZAK, professor of sociology, who will pursue research on the topic “Pro- and Anti-Immigrant Protest and Policy in Western Europe”
  • ROB REICH, associate professor of political science, and LUCY BERNHOLZ, visiting scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, who will work on the “Philanthropy, Policy and Technology Project”
  • JONATHAN WAND, assistant professor of political science, whose project is titled “Shape Constrained Inference in the Social Sciences”

In addition, MIKE TOMZ, professor of political science and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and PAOLO PARIGI, assistant professor of sociology, will continue as faculty fellows in the next academic year. Tomz’s topic is “The Democratic Peace.” Parigi’s project is titled “Trust Studies in an Internet-Mediated Environment.”

The residential program provides a quiet setting for fellows’ work with access to research space and support services at the IRiSS offices, which are located in the hills above campus near the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Golf Course.

Detailed descriptions of the fellows’ research projects are described in the full announcement. For more on the program, visit the IRiSS Fellows webpage.