School of Humanities and Sciences
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Jacob Abolafia
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioI am a political theorist who writes on the history of political thought and critical theory, broadly construed.
My dissertation (Harvard, 2019) “Penal Modernism before Modernity: Correction and Confinement in the History of Political Thought”, traced the treatment of the prison in political philosophy from Plato’s Athens to Jeremy Bentham’s London, with an eye towards our present carceral dysfunction. In addition to finishing a related manuscript on incarceration and the history of political thought, I am also engaged in research projects on political myths and political economy, as well as contemporary theories of rationality and society.
I have published and taught on the history of political thought from classical antiquity to the present day. My ongoing research interests include social and political philosophy from early modernity through the critical theorists, Jewish and Islamic political thought, classical philosophy, and the intersection of social and political theory.
After receiving my doctorate from Harvard’s Government Department, I was the 2019-2020 Harvard-Tel Aviv Post-doctoral Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. And, as of 2020, a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Institute’s Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem. I am currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Stanford Civics Initiative, based in the Political Science Department at Stanford University.
I hold a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy from Yale University (2010), and completed M.Phils in Political Thought and Intellectual History (2011) and Ancient Philosophy (2012) at Cambridge, where I was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Clare College until 2013.
I live in San Francisco. -
Hui Bai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology
BioMax received a B.A. in psychology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, which is also where he received his PhD in social psychology. As a political psychologist, he has three lines of research: one looks at the interplay between values and inter-group attitudes (e.g., how ideology and prejudice are related), one looks at the psychological consequences of social changes (e.g., how people react to demographic shifts and cultural changes), and one is about research methodology.
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Gil Baram
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on governmental decision-making during cyberattacks and strategic attribution-related policy. I work at the intersection of Cyber and International Relations, examining under what circumstances governments choose public acknowledgment of attacks or secrecy. Within my doctoral research, I developed a pioneering analytical model that allows decision-makers to predict their adversary’s response, supported by an original coded database of cyberattacks.
My research interests encompass various aspects of cyber warfare and covert actions, including the impact of technology on national security, cyber and national security, the role of Intelligence agencies in cyberattacks, cyber threats to space systems, and how states act during cyberconflict. -
Jeremy Bowles
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioPostdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development (2021-23).
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Li (Leigh) Chu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioLi (Leigh) Chu is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Laura Carstensen at Stanford University. She is most intrigued by topics relating to aging, curiosity, learning motivation and technological acceptance. She completed her Ph.D. in Psychology with Dr. Helene Fung at Chinese University of Hong Kong and her B.A. at University of British Columbia. In the past, she also worked with Dr. Christiane Hoppmann (UBC), Dr. Su-ling Yeh (NTU) and Dr. Nancy Pachana (UQ).
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Yoshika Crider
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioI am an interdisciplinary global health researcher with a background in environmental engineering and epidemiology. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development at Stanford University.
Research and teaching interests: WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene); global health; passive chlorination technologies; interventions against NTDs (neglected tropical diseases); gender equity -
Gemma Dipoppa
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioI am a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Science at Stanford University. I received my PhD in Political Science from University of Pennsylvania in August 2020. My research interests include comparative politics, political economy and quantitative methods.
In my research, I study the strategies used by criminal organizations to influence politicians, their capacity to drain public resources and the effectiveness of policies to fight against them. My dissertation examines the conditions explaining the expansion of criminal organizations to strong states, focusing on mafias’ ability to control and exploit migrants’ labor to strike alliances with local economic actors.
Please visit my website for my cv and research: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/gemmad/ -
Dorien Emmers
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioDorien is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions. She previously studied Sinology and Economics at KU Leuven. She considers her background in the non-disciplinary-specific study of the Chinese language and area as a perfect complement of the non-area-specific discipline of economics. She obtained a Doctoral Degree in Economics from LICOS — Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. She wrote her PhD thesis on "The Experimental Economics of Parenting: Evidence from Rural China." After completing her PhD degree in early 2021, she held a position as an associate researcher and lecturer at the KU Leuven Chinese Studies Unit. Her research interests center around the economics of human capital formation and social mobility. She’s involved in the design and evaluation of field experiments evaluating the effectiveness and mechanisms of early childhood interventions in rural China.
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Guzel Garifullina
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioGuzel Garifullina is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (AY 2022-2023). Her research interests include comparative political behavior and authoritarian governance with a focus on Russia. Her previous projects use a variety of methods, including lab and survey experiments, as well as the analysis of open biographical data on public officials and local-level governance indicators. She earned her PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021.
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Xiao Ge
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research sits at the intersection of Emotion, Learning, Culture and Technology
Future: I want to conduct culturally-appropriate (intervention) studies to guide people to raise socio-emotional awareness and effectively navigate emotional disturbances in learning and work practice that is increasingly multicultural and multidisciplinary in nature.
Past: my dissertation investigates the constructive role of perplexity and emotional disturbance in collaborative design -
David Hausman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioI study immigration enforcement and administrative courts. One of my current projects evaluates how effective county sanctuary policies were at preventing deportations under the Obama administration; another takes stock of the relative impact of the Trump administration's many changes to admission and deportation policy.
From 2016 to 2019, I worked as an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York, where I helped litigate challenges to the Trump Administration’s use of immigration detention, its arbitrary revocation of DACA grants, and its Muslim Ban. -
Danea Horn
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioDanea Horn is a postdoctoral scholar in Economics at Stanford University. She earned her doctorate in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2021. Prior to that, Danea wrote a book, Chronic Resilience, which was a personal examination of the patient experience. The book tells stories of resilience that demonstrate how seemingly individual experiences with the health care system are fundamentally connected. With an applied economist’s toolkit, Danea's research now focuses on pharmaceutical pricing, health innovation and resource constraints.
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Dongxian Jiang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDongxian Jiang's primary research interests lie in comparative and international political theory, the history of political thought, and pressing practical questions of democratic and international politics, including Western and non-Western perspectives on human rights, good governance, political legitimacy, and cross-cultural dialogue.
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Omer Karaduman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioPrior to coming to Stanford, Omer completed his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in 2020, and got his bachelor's degree in Economics from Bilkent University in 2014.
His research focuses on the transition of the energy sector towards a decarbonized and sustainable future. In his research, he utilizes large datasets by using game-theoretical modeling to have practical policy suggestions.
Omer's Ph.D. research focused on the transition to a low carbon electricity system at the wholesale level. His thesis developed a framework that allows us to estimate the impact of large-scale battery and renewable investment in an imperfectly competitive electricity market. He worked on the social and private benefits of grid-scale energy storage and the need for policies that complement investments in renewables with encouraging energy storage and investigated the impact of large-scale renewable investment in the wholesale electricity market in terms of price and emissions.
He is currently working on using large-scale energy storage as a transmission asset, the impact of large EV uptake on the wholesale electricity market, and carbon pricing in the electricity industry. -
Lara Kirfel
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioI am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford. My research focusses on causal and modal cognition, moral psychology and epistemology.
