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Ran Abramitzky
Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioRan Abramitzky is the Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University. His research in economic history and applied microeconomics focuses on immigration, social mobility, and inequality. An important strand of his research centers on constructing large-scale historical datasets to trace the long-run trajectories of immigrants and U.S.-born families, offering new perspectives on the American Dream.
His work has informed academic research, appeared in major media, and contributed to public discussions and policy debates on economic opportunity and immigration. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and previously served as co-editor of Explorations in Economic History.
His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark, Stanford’s Economics Department and Dean’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching, and grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the author of The Mystery of the Kibbutz (2018), which received the Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize, and coauthor, with Leah Boustan, of Streets of Gold (2022), named among the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Forbes, and Behavioral Scientist. He received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University. -
Avidit Acharya
Professor of Political Science, by courtesy, of Political Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
BioAvi Acharya is a professor of political science at Stanford University; a professor, by courtesy, of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution. He works in the fields of political economy and formal political theory.
His first book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018) explores the lasting impact of slavery as an institution on political attitudes in the American South. His second book, The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2023), provides a new understanding of the territorial state system as it developed through time and exists today.
His papers have been published in both economics and political science journals and have received awards such as the Elinor Ostrom best paper award, the Gosnell Prize in political methodology, and the Joseph Bernd best paper award. He is an editor at the journal Social Choice and Welfare and an advisory editor at Games and Economic Behavior.
He earned a PhD in political economy from Princeton University in 2012 and a BA in economics and mathematics from Yale University in 2006. Before joining the Stanford faculty, he taught in the economics and political science departments of the University of Rochester. -
Oluwakemisola Adeusi
Ph.D. Student in German Studies, admitted Autumn 2022
Ph.D. Minor, Political ScienceBioOluwakemisola "Kemi" (pronouns: she/her) received her B.A. in German from the University of Ibadan in 2011. She completed her M.A. in German at The University of Alabama in 2022 and is now a doctoral candidate in German studies at Stanford.
Her dissertation, “Representations of Inter- and Intra-Migrant Interactions in Contemporary German Literature,” examines how German-language texts represent complex relationships among migrant communities, moving beyond simplistic binaries of “host” and “immigrant” identity. -
Karla Patricia Aguilar
Undergraduate, Psychology
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Stanford Student Employee, Undergrad Housing Front DesksBioResearch Lab Assistant, Graduate School of Business Behavioral Lab
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T. M. Jensen Ahokovi
Graduate, Economics
BioI’m a predoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the STAX Lab (Stanford Initiative on Business, Taxation, and Society) at the Graduate School of Business, where I work with Professors Ran Abramitzky and Rebecca Lester.
My interests lie at the intersection of labor and urban economics, public finance, and economic history. I'm particularly interested in how labor markets and cities evolve over time—and how government interventions through taxation, regulation, and social programs shape both individual trajectories and broader economic outcomes.
Previously, I was a research assistant in the Economic Policy Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where I primarily supported the work of PhD economists and Senior Fellows Stan Veuger, Vincent Smith, and Paul Kupiec.
I earned my BA in the Quantitative Economics Concentration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in summer 2024. Before AEI, I held research roles at the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at Hawai‘i Pacific University, and the Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i. I plan to pursue a PhD in economics and/or public policy in the near future. -
Michael O. Allen
Assistant Professor of Political Science
BioMichael Allen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research interests span international political economy, international institutions, and law, with a focus on the politics of global capitalism. He studies how the growth of private authority influences domestic legal development and the power of countries to regulate foreign commerce. He also has ongoing research projects in related areas including special economic zones, transnational anti-corruption efforts and global competition law.
Prior to joining Stanford, he earned a PhD in Government from Cornell University and held postdoctoral positions at Yale University and Harvard University. -
Noor Amr
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
BioNoor Amr is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University. She is currently writing her dissertation on the “church asylum” (Kirchenasyl) movement in Germany, paying attention to the relationship between sanctuary, religious difference, borders/migration, sovereignty, and political belonging. Her ethnographic research among churches and monasteries across Germany explores how Kirchenasyl—sanctuary from the state—becomes a means through which rejected asylum-seekers gain legibility as subjects worthy of legal recognition. Her broader theoretical interests include theories in political theology, religion/secularism, sanctuary and hospitality, histories of confinement, and the coloniality of asylum.
Prior to her doctoral work, Noor received a B.A. in Politics from Willamette University and an M.T.S. in Philosophy of Religion from Harvard Divinity School, where she was a Dean’s Fellow.
