Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Past Postdoctoral Fellows

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Past Postdoctoral Fellows

Since 2003, the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program has hosted more than 60 fellows across Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, and History. 

These scholars have published important scholarship in leading academic journals and books with top university presses. Such scholarly work has made significant contributions to pressing social issues. 

The aim of welcoming postdoctoral research associates to the PPE Center is to help launch their careers in an extremely competitive market. Many of our postdoctoral research associates have gone on to become rising stars in their fields, filling competitive positions at prestigious institutions. Along with their own scholarly accomplishments, former postdocs are increasingly taking prominent editorial positions in the academic community, shaping the frontiers of social science.

Past Postdoctoral Research Fellows

  • Sahar Akhtar

    Associate Professor of the Practice, Georgetown University
    Term 2007 - 2008
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University / Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University

  • Ugur Altundal

    Burt Dorsett ’53 Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics at the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College
    Term 2021-2022
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Syracuse University

  • Carlo Argenton

    In memoriam
    Term 2015 - 2016
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Joshua Bandoch

    Senior Vice President of Policy Research, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
    Term 2012 - 2014
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Notre Dame

  • Jason Brennan

    Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
    Term 2006 - 2008
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Arizona

  • Barbara Buckinx

    Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
    Term 2008 - 2010
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2010

  • Rosolino Candela

    Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
    Term 2017 - 2018
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University

  • Pawel Charasz

    Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Term 2022–2024
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University

  • Tarana Chauhan

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Colgate University
    Term 2024–2026
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University

  • Yvonne Chiu

    Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College
    Term 2008 - 2010
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, UC Berkeley

  • Kaitlyn Chriswell

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Miami
    Term 2023–2025
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Harvard University

  • Ross Corbett

    Senior Counsel, Esbrook P.C.
    Term 2004–2007
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Political Science, University of Toronto

  • Prithviraj Datta

    Assistant Professor of Political Theory, Franklin & Marshall College
    Term 2014–2015
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Harvard University

  • Brandon Davis

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Murphy Institute at Tulane University
    Term 2016 - 2019
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Alabama

  • Samuel Director

    Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law, University of Richmond
    Term 2021–2022
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Bréond Durr

    Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
    Term 2023–2025
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Harvard University

  • William English

    Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
    Term 2010 - 2011
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University

  • Michael Frazer

    Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
    Term 2006–2007
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Politics, Princeton University

  • Danilo Freire

    Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University.
    Term 2018 - 2020
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Economy, King’s College London

  • Maximiliano Garcia

    Research Fellow, Economics, Monash University
    Term 2024–2026
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Economics, Boston University

  • Arthur Ghins

    Chargé de recherches FNRS, Université libre de Bruxelles
    Term 2019–2021
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Politics, University of Cambridge

  • Alex Gourevitch

    Associate Professor, Political Science, Brown University, Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia, 2010
    Term 2011 - 2012
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University

  • Anthony Gregory

    Loren S. and LaMina M. Smith Hoover Fellow, Stanford University
    Term 2020–2022
    Ph.D. Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

  • L. Joseph Hebert

    Professor, Political Science, St. Ambrose University , Ph.D., Political Science, University of Toronto
    Term 2003–2005

  • Javier Hidalgo

    Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
    Term 2011 - 2012
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2011

  • Anton Howes

    Historian in Residence, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
    Term 2016 - 2017
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Economy, King's College London

  • Leigh Jenco

    Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science
    Term 2007 - 2008
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago

  • Loren King

    Associate Professor, Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ph.D., Political science, MIT
    Term 2003 - 2004

  • Mark Koyama

    Professor of Political Economy, University of Florida
    Term 2009 - 2010
    Ph.D. DPhil, Economics, Oxford

  • Helene Landemore

    Damon Wells ’58 Professor of Political Science, Yale University
    Term 2008
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Harvard University

  • Dan Layman

    Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Davidson College
    Term 2014 - 2015
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Jayme Lemke

    Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
    Term 2013 - 2014
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University

  • Gabriella Levy

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
    Term 2023–2024
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University

  • Antong Liu

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Singapore Management University
    Term 2019–2021
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University

  • Glory Liu

    Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
    Term 2018 - 2020
    Ph.D. Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University

  • Jeff Metzger

    Professor, Cameron University
    Term 2004 - 2006
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Political Science, University of Toronto

  • Shany Mor

    Lecturer in Political Thought, Reichman University
    Term 2016-2017
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Oxford University

  • Julian Müller

    Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Graz
    Term 2016 - 2018
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, Technical University of Munich

  • Thomas Mulligan

    Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University
    Term 2015 - 2016
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, Tulane University

  • Emily Nacol

    Associate Professor, University of Toronto
    Term 2007 - 2009
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago

  • Natalya Naumenko

    Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
    Term 2018 - 2019
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University

  • Julia Netter

    Assistant Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and Philosophy, Brown University
    Term 2019–2021
    Ph.D. DPhil, Politics, University of Oxford

  • Laura Phillips-Sawyer

    Jane W. Wilson Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Georgia

  • Lowry Pressly

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
    Term 2020–2022
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Harvard University

  • Dennis Rasmussen

    Professor, Syracuse University
    Term 2007 - 2008
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Theory, Duke University

  • Julie Rose

    Associate Professor of Government and Hans ’80 and Kate Morris Director of the Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College
    Term 2012 - 2013
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2012

  • Emilie Sartre

    Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham
    Term 2021–2023
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Economics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (CREST/ENSAE)

  • Keith Shaw

    Deputy Director, Emma Bloomberg Center for Access & Opportunity, Princeton University
    Term 2004 - 2005
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford

  • Lauri Tähtinen

    Chief Executive Officer, Mission Grey; Non-Resident Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
    Term 2012 - 2014
    Ph.D. Ph.D., History, University of Cambridge

  • Adam Tebble

    Private sector
    Term 2004 - 2006
    Ph.D. Ph.D. Political Theory, London School of Economics

  • Jessie Trudeau

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
    Term 2022–2023
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Harvard University

  • Kevin Vallier

    Professor of Philosophy, University of Toledo
    Term 2011 - 2012
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2011

  • Sébastien Viguier

    Lecturer, Political Science, Catholic University of Paris and ISEG Business School, Ph.D., Political Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    Term 2006 - 2007

  • Andrew Volmert

    Senior Vice President of Programs, FrameWorks Institute
    Term 2008 - 2010
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, Yale

  • Jeppe von Platz

    Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Richmond
    Term 2011–2012
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

  • Greg Weiner

    President, Assumption University
    Term 2010–2011
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University

  • Daniel Wewers

    Associate, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
    Term 2009 - 2010
    Ph.D. Ph.D., History, Harvard University

  • Colin Wilder

    Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
    Term 2010 - 2011
    Ph.D. Ph.D., History, University of Chicago

  • Carla Yumatle

    Professor, Political Philosophy, the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
    Term 2015 - 2016
    Ph.D. Ph.D., Political Science, University of California at Berkeley

  • Mariah Zeisberg

    Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Michigan, Ph.D., Politics, Princeton
    Term 2004 - 2006

Past Visiting Scholars

We have hosted five visiting scholars: two in law, one in political economy, one in philosophy, and one in political theory.

  • Scott Gerber

    Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University, Member, Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, J.D., University of Virginia
    Term 2018 - 2019

  • Joshua Preiss

    Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Chicago
    Term 2016 - 2017

  • Steven Calabresi

    Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Co-Chairman of the Federalist Society, J.D., Yale
    Term 2013 - 2017

  • Nick Cowen

    Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln, Ph.D., Political Economy, King's College London
    Term Spring 2015

  • Edwin van de Haar

    Independent scholar, author, and lecturer in international relations and political economy, Ph.D., International Political Theory, Maastricht University
    Term Spring 2015