PEOPLE | 2008-2009 Fellows

Dissertation Fellows

Ori Aronson
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Institutional and Constitutional issues in the structure of trial court systems.

Alison Comfort
Ph.D. Candidate, Health Policy

Research Interests: Assessing the determinants of demand for preventive health care in developing countries.

Corina Graif
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology Department

Research Interests: Residential mobility, social, and spatial stratification; neighborhood effects; racial, ethnic and immigrant inequalities in neighborhood attainment and development outcomes.

Simone Ispa-Landa
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology Department

Research Interests: Interaction between neighborhood levels of collective efficacy, adolescents' activity contexts, and social and educational outcomes.

April Kimmel
Ph.D. Candidate, Health Policy

Research Interests: Efficieny and equity issues in scaling up HIV treatment in developing countries.

Rugelemeza Nshala
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Research Interests: Critical analysis of the Sub-Saharan African countries’ mining industry legal and tax reforms.

Kristi Olson
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy Department

Research Interests: Egalitarian theories of distributive justice and their compatibility with freedom

Laura Tach
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology and Social Policy

Research Interests: The consequences of mixed-income housing policies for economic and spatial inequality in America's cities.

Research Fellows

Eric Budish
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department and Harvard Business School

Research Interests: Developing an efficient, non-manipulable, fair solution to the problem of multiunit cashless assignment.

Sean Ingham
Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department

Research Interests: The implications of results in social choice theory on majority preference cycles for normative democratic theory.

Noam Maggor
Ph.D. Candidate, History of American Civilization Department

Research Interests: TA nineteenth century approach to metropolitan development based on collaboration between small businesses and local government.

Sabrina Peric
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department

Research Interests: Extractive industry and society in the western Balkans.

Claire Schwartz
Ph.D. Candidate, Government Department

Research Interests: Interaction between state and private governance in the regulation of international supply chains.

Heidi Williams
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics Department

Research Interests: Empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of technological innovations in health care markets.

Complete list of all current fellows' research.