People
Director
PPE Professors
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Ryan Doody
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political EconomyRyan Doody is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Previously he held positions at the University of San Diego, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Groningen, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ryan received his PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work deals with questions of rationality and value. He has a specialism in decision theory. Ryan's current research focuses on incommensurability, social risk, and public policy.
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Gianna Englert
PPE Center Visiting Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Southern Methodist UniversityGianna Englert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches political theory and the history of political thought. She holds an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Annapolis and a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Political Theory Project at Brown University. She has research interests in the history of liberalism, with particular interests in themes of political inclusion and exclusion, citizenship, and political economy. Her work has been published in Political Theory, Polity, The Review of Politics, Modern Intellectual History, and The Tocqueville Review. Her book, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and The Politics of Suffrage, is under contract with Oxford University Press.
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Emily Skarbek
Associate Professor, Research, Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research SeminarEmily Skarbek is Associate Research Professor in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2009. Her research examines civil society, governance, and history of economic thought. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. In 2014, she was awarded the annual Gordon Tullock prize for best article published in Public Choice by a junior scholar. She is also a contributing author to several books including After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound and Hayek and the Modern World.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Center Staff
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Jacqueline Jutras
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Alytheia Laughlin
Governing Board
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Prudence Carter
Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University -
Jonathan Collins
Jonathan E. Collins is the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Education. -
David Estlund
Lombardo Professor of the Humanities, Philosophy -
Larry Larson
Professor of Engineering -
Stelios Michalopoulos
Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown University, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR -
Eric Patashnik
Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, Chair of Political Science -
Melvin Rogers
Associate Director, Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Associate Professor Political Science -
David Skarbek
Associate Professor of Political Science and Political Economy -
Karin Wulf
Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, Brown University