PEOPLE | 2007-2008 Fellows

Dissertation Fellows

Ryan Bubb
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The reciprocal relationships among legal institutions, political institutions, and economic outcomes in the developing world.

Magnus Feldmann
Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Post-Communist capitalism: politics, institutions and inequality in East Central Europe.

Joseph Mazor
Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The normative basis for property rights in natural resources.

Elizabeth More
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Positive visions of maternal employment in the United States, 1940-2000.

Dina Pomeranz
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Development economics and public economics, with a particular focus on savings and tax evasion.

Hengameh Saberi
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Pragmatism, American mind, and international law: a history of international legal thought in the United States.

Nadav Shoked
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Jeffersonion conceptions of property in 20th century American law and politics.

Zoe Trodd
Ph.D. Candidate, History of American Civilization Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The historical memory of nineteenth-century abolitionism in six protest movements and their literature, 1865-2007

Daniel Wood
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The role of bounded rationality in deceptive communication.

Research Fellows

Mihai Manea
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Efficiency, equity, and incentive properties of matching mechanisms; game theory.

Benjamin Waterhouse
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: Empirical historical analysis of business leaders’ influence on US economic policy and national politics, 1970s-1980s.

Matthew Weinzierl
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University

Research Interests: The optimal design of taxation, from both positive and normative prospectives.

Complete list of all current fellows' research.