PEOPLE | 2005-2006 Fellows

Amilcar Challu
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Living standards, nutrition, and food supply policies in history. I am particularly interested on the impact of grain market regulations on food access, and their implications for regime legitimacy at the end of the Spanish colonial rule in Latin America and Mexico in particular.

Harumi S. Furuya
Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: "Frame Politics: The Politics of Ideas in Contemporary Immigration Policymaking in Germany, Sweden, and France." How do policy reversals happen, why do they happen, and who makes them happen? Furuya develops a theory of frame politics which looks to the dynamics of ideational clashes to explain key policy changes. Examines the role of ideas in policymaking, in which ideas serve as both prescribing and enabling force for policy actors.

Richard Holden
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Theory of the design of public institutions. Taking public institutions as endogenously determined, I explore the consequences of how institutional design affects outcomes and welfare, and how the current design of certain institutions affects the outcomes of different groups.

Katerina Linos
J.D./Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests : International cooperation in family, poverty and health policies; role of international organizations in national policy-making in these areas.

Jal Mehta
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Rise of standards and accountability in American education policy; relationship to American concepts of equality, liberty, responsibility, and justice.

Fernanda Nicola
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: “Distribution and Local Governance in European Integration: A View from Private Law Theory. ” In foregrounding how wealth distribution is carried out through private law rules, my project examines the connection between the democratic experiment and the “social market economy” emerging from European integration.

Japa Pallikkathayil
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Examining the connection between moral and political philosophy by developing an account of when and why coercion is wrong in person-to-person cases and exploring the implications of that account for the coercive power of the state.

Philipp Schnabl
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The economic impact of immigration constraints; determinants of the informal sector in Brazil.

Miriam Shakow
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Conflicts over the moral import of inequality and the changing roles of the state in Bolivia.

Gauri Kartini Shastry
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Examining the consequences of outsourcing to India on female labor force participation and gender discrimination in children's health and education. Also studying how teachers use their discretion in determining which children receive the benefits of school meal programs.

Stanley Watt
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Examining how technology is transferred from developed to developing countries particularly through foreign direct investment.

Katharine Young
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: “Paths to Constitutional Justice as Welfare.” The world-wide sweep of modern constitutionalism has advanced new “positive” conceptions of liberal rights. My dissertation subjects the justiciable conception of social rights to the challenges posed by legal realism, social theory and political economy.

Complete list of all current fellows' research.