Past Research Speakers

Sep
11
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Lindsey Bullinger

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Medicaid Eligibility on Social Outcomes Among Young Aging Out of Foster Care
Sep 11, 2020 12:00PM
Sep
04
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Charles Crabtree

Senior Data Scientist at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College
Americans Are Just as Racially Biased as Their Elected Representatives
Sep 04, 2020 12:00PM
Apr
17
Faculty Research Speaker Series

W. David Bradford - POSTPONED

Professor of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia
Evictions, Housing Policy, and Deaths of Despair
April 17, 2020 12:00 PM

W. David Bradford, Ph.D. is the Busbee Chair in Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia.  A significant component of Dr. Bradford’s current research involves the origins of time and risk preferences, and their effects on health care related decisions; he also explores other aspects of behavioral economics, including integrating the adaptation into neoclassical models of consumer choice.

Apr
10
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Parag A. Pathak - POSTPONED (to be rescheduled AY 20-21)

Professor of Microeconomics, MIT
TBD
Apr 10, 2019

Parag A. Pathak is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, found­ing co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a laboratory focused on education, human capital, and the income distribution.

Jointly sponsored by Curry, Economics, and the Frank Batten School

Apr
03
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Charles Crabtree - POSTPONED (to be rescheduled AY 20-21)

Visiting Scholar in the Department of Government, Dartmouth College
TBD
Apr 03, 2019, 12:00 PM

Charles Crabtree is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, a Senior Data Scientist (Research Fellow) at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, and a Visiting Scholar in the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan.

Mar
20
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Eli Finkel - POSTPONED (to be rescheduled AY 20-21)

Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
Beyond Pride and Prejudice: Can Insights from Relationship Psychology Improve Our Politics?
Mar 20, 2020 12:00 PM

Eli Finkel is a professor in the psychology department and in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He earned has BA (1997) in psychology from Northwestern and his PhD (2001) in social/quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 2003.

Mar
06
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Steven Blader

Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business, NYU Stern
Your Status Becomes You (and Why That Matters)
Mar 06, 2020 12:00 PM

Steven Blader received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University (2002). His research identifies the organizational conditions that motivate employee performance by addressing employees’ social and relational concerns in the workplace. His work focuses on understanding how employees assess their social and relational standing in their work organizations, and the influence of those judgments on their behavior at work.

Feb
07
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Sarah Bermeo

Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Trade and Development: Industrialized Country Preferences for Free Trade Agreements over the WTO
Feb 07, 2020 12:00 PM

Sarah Bermeo is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science in the Sanford School at Duke University. Her research lies at the intersection of international relations and development, with a particular focus on relations between industrialized and developing countries.

Sponsored by the Global Policy Center

Jan
24
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Anuj K. Shah

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, Chicago Booth
Behavioral Science and Crime
Jan 24, 2019 12:00 PM

Anuj K. Shah studies the psychology that arises from facing resource scarcity. In one line of work, he studies how being short on money and time affects decision-making. In another line of work, he studies how behavioral science can help shape interventions to reduce crime and violence.