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Following is a list of our board members, along with their respective research interests.
Russell Berman
berman@osp.stanford.edu
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences
Research interests: Prof. Berman holds appointments in German studies and comparative literature, and his research interests involve the sociology of culture in Germany from the middle of the 19th century to the present. He has written more than 80 articles and five books, including The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma, which is regarded as one of the most important contributions to the study of 20th-century literature by an American Germanist.
David Brady (co-director)
dbrady@stanford.edu
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Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor, Graduate School of Business.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of Executive Education, Graduate
School of Business.
Senior Fellow Hoover Institution.
Research interests: Elections, voting, and representation in the U.S. Congress;
Comparative legislative politics; History of the
U.S. Congress.
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Professor of Economics.
Senior Resident Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.
Research interests: The economics of technological change, demographic change,
and institutional change; Theoretical and
empirical research on the nature of path-dependence in economic processes;
Economic history of U.S. and North Atlantic
countries in the modern era.
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Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Research interests: Positive political theory; Political institutions and behavior; Methodology.
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Professor of Political Science.
Director, Program in International Policy Studies.
Director, Program in International Relations.
Research interests: American foreign policy; Foreign economic policy; International
institutions and international law; North
American integration; NAFTA.
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Joan Butler Ford Professor of Social Science, Department of Sociology.
Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution.
Research interests: Economic sociology; stratification; organizations; labor
markets; The effects of social structure on the
economy and economic action.
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Associate Professor of Economics.
Faculty Fellow, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform.
Research interests: Historical and theoretical analysis of institutions, particularly informal contract enforcement institutions, and the institutional foundations of the state and the market (with a focus on the Late Medieval period); Game theory, particularly the theory of repeated games.
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Associate Professor of Renaissance/Reformation History
Director of Honors Program in History
Research interests: History of European Christianity in the late medieval and early modern periods, especially the sixteenth century, viewed comparatively across distinct traditions that took shape in the Reformation era (Protestantism, radical Protestantism, Roman Catholicism).
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Professor of History and Political Science.
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution.
Senior Fellow, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform.
Senior Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research.
Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research
Research interests: Comparative economic history of Latin America; Institutions and their effects on Latin American economic performance; Social science history methods.
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Donald J. McClachlan Professor of History.
Research interests: 20th century American political and social history: especially the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and immigration.
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Professor of Political Science
Research interests: David Laitin studies comparative politics, with a specialty in the field of political culture. He has studied political issues involving language use, religion, the formation of national identities, and the sources of intra- and inter-ethnic violent conflict. He combines formal and statistical methods with ethnographic field work, which he has undertaken in Somalia, Nigeria, Catalonia and the Russian-speaking zones of the former Soviet Union.
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Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History; Ph.D. University of Chicago 1992; Assistant Professor, Princeton University 1993-95; Fellow, Institute for Research in The Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1995-96.
Author of: The Hauswaldt Papyri. A Third Century B.C. Family Archive from Edfu, Upper Egypt (Wurzburg, 1997) and Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Current Research: Central Government, local power and the land tenure regime in Hellenistic Egypt. Research interests: Economic and legal history of the ancient world; Hellenistic Egypt; Documentary papyrology; Agrarianhistory.
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Professor of Sociology.
Recent work has focused on the impact of world society, seen as an institutional system promulgating models of state and society, on national states and societies. Specific foci include national educational systems, human rights policies, scientific research and training systems, environmental policies and structures, and policies for economic development. The overall research program is summarized in "World Society and the Nation-State," by Meyer, Boli, Thomas, and Ramirez, in the American Journal of Sociology (July 1997). An earlier review of theory and research appears in Thomas, Meyer, Boli, and Ramirez, Institutional Structure (Sage, 1987). He has also been active in developing parallel neoinstitutional arguments and research on the impacts of wider environments on the structures of formal organizations (e.g., Meyer and Scott, Organizational Environments, Sage 1991).
Research interests: The expanding culture and organizational arrangements of global society; How world models shape national approaches to the environment, human rights, scientific institutions, and socioeconomic development.
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Assistant Professor of Medieval European History.
Research interests: Medieval science and medical knowledge; medieval commerce and diplomacy.
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Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology in
the Classics Departments.
Professor, Dept of History.
(BA Birmingham University, 1981; PhD Cambridge, 1986. Fellow of Jesus College,
Cambridge, 1985-87)
Has taught at the University of Chicago, 1987-95; at Stanford since 1995.
Excavated extensively in Greece and Britain.
Currently publishing the Iron Age deposits from the American School at Athens' excavations at Lerna in Greece.
Publications: Burial and Ancient Society (1987), Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (1992), and Archaeology as Cultural History (1999). Editor of Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (1994), A New Companion to Homer (1997, with Barry Powell), and Democracy 2500? (1997, with Kurt Raaflaub). Currently writing a new book, Greek Civilization, with Barry Powell.
Research interests: Ancient Mediterranean social and economic history, particularly
Greece in the 1st millennium B.C.; Archaeology; Comparative history.
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Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Department
of History
Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution
Research interests: History of Modern Eastern Europe.
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Professor of Political Science.
Faculty Fellow, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform.
Research interests: The nature, causes, and consequences of recent market-oriented reforms in Latin America, and their implications for theories about development.
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Professor of Political Science
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research interests: American politics; Statistical analysis of political data.
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Professor of Classics
Research interests: Social Archeology and material cultural studies.
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Ward Krebs Professor of Political Science.
Chair, Department of Political Science.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Research interests: Economics and political economy; Commitment problems and political institutions; American politics (U.S. Congress).
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Professor of Anthropology.
Research interests: Family and religion in China and East Asia.
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William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Department of Economics.
Research interests: Historical performance of the US economy incomparative and international context;The economics of slavery and economic development; Comparative technological choices in the world textiles industry between 1870 and 1930.
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