Scholars 2026-2027
Members
Ana Aliverti
University of Warwick
Criminology and Law
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Ana Aliverti's research lies at the intersection of criminology, law, sociology, and anthropology. She specializes in criminal justice and border controls. At IAS, she will work on a project on the UK asylum bureaucracy investigating it as a moral institution—a site where moral emotions and values are mobilized, regulated, and contested.
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Sareeta Amrute
The New School
Anthropology
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Sareeta Amrute is an anthropologist who investigates data-centric technologies and societies, centering race and caste as analytics of power within technological domains. At IAS, she will investigate the relationship between caste and data-centric technologies by focusing on the security practices of anti-caste movements in the South Asian diaspora.
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Jens Beckert
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Sociology
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Jens Beckert specializes in economic sociology, focusing on the social and political consequences of rising wealth concentration and the growing power of capital. He will work on a book project analyzing how the increasing importance of private assets is transforming social structures, inequality, and democratic governance.
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Benjamin Bradlow
Princeton University
Sociology
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Benjamin Bradlow's work investigates connections between climate change, urbanization, technological change, and the political challenges for democracy that confront societies across the globe. This year at IAS, he will be writing his next book, "The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South."
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Elizabeth Chiarello
Washington University in St. Louis
Sociology
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At IAS, Elizabeth Chiarello will work on her second book, "White Coat Crime." The book examines how healthcare is criminalized by comparing dynamics between healthcare providers and enforcement agents across five types of care.
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Kevin Duong
University of Virginia
Political Science
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This year at IAS, Kevin Duong will be working on his book, "Freud Against Empire," which maps how an international cohort of midcentury radicals—Surrealist poets, painters, ethnographers, psychiatrists, and communists in France, Martinique, Cuba, and the United States—deployed psychoanalysis to undermine civilizational and global hierarchy.
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Jason Frank
Cornell University
Political Science
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Jason Frank specializes in historically-situated approaches to democratic theory, with a focus on the modern history of popular sovereignty. While he is at IAS he will be working on a new book exploring counterrevolutionary theories of democracy from the 1790s to the present.
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Susannah Glickman
Stony Brook University
History
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Susannah Glickman is a historian who works on the history of science and political economy of the military-scientific-industrial-complex. She has a background in anthropology and mathematics. She will be writing her book project about the rise and fall of the post-Cold War state through the lens of high-tech and defense industries.
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Frank Guridy
Columbia University
History
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Frank Guridy's recent research explores the efficacy of social movements. At IAS, he will work on his new book project, "City of Solidarity: New York," which examines the city's ascendance as an epicenter of global social movements throughout the twentieth century.
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Ethan Kleinberg
Wesleyan University
History
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This year at IAS, Ethan Kleinberg will work on a book-length project entitled "The Politics of the Future," which explores our increasingly impaired relationship to the future, a relationship so damaged that we are unable to confront the pressing crises of the present.
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Jens van 't Klooster
University of Amsterdam
Political Economy
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At IAS, Jens van 't Klooster will work toward a realistic account of how unelected policymakers fit in a democracy; more specifically, how they can respect democratic standards of legitimacy while pushing forward fast-paced climate transition policies.
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David Knight
Yale University
Sociology and Black Studies
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This year at IAS, David Knight will complete a book project on the political movements that Black people incarcerated for long terms in U.S. prisons have launched to redress the harms of the penal state. He will also work on a new book project focusing on reproductive justice and incarceration in transnational perspective.
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Wendy Leutert
Indiana University
Political Science
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Wendy Leutert specializes in the political economy of China, with interests in state-market relations, state ownership, and economic reform. At IAS, she is completing a book titled "The International Origins of China's National Champions," which develops a transnational framework for analyzing China's economic policymaking.
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Noam Maggor
Queen Mary University of London
History
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Noam Maggor is working on a book about how the nineteenth-century United States transformed from a cotton-exporting slave society into the world's leading industrial power. The project challenges conventional accounts that link prosperity to secure property rights and limited government, treating the U.S. as a case of state-led development.
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Kathleen R. McNamara
Georgetown University
Political Science
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In her year at IAS, Kathleen Roberta McNamara will be writing a book on how value is constructed in markets, pointing to the key role of power and status in determining worth in sectors like bitcoin and crypto, electric vehicles and clean energy, contemporary paintings, and grand cru wines.
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Arvind Narayanan
Princeton University
Computer Science
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Arvind Narayanan will study—and help shape—AI's transformation of work, institutions, society, and democracy. This research will build on the paper "AI as Normal Technology" that he co-authored.
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Dina Okamoto
Indiana University
Sociology
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Dina Okamoto's work focuses on race, immigration, politics, and social movements. At IAS, she will study interracial alignments among Asian Americans and other racial minorities in high-stakes U.S. policy debates, ultimately revealing the ways that race is constructed and constituted by non-state actors.
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Calvin Thrall
Columbia University
Political Science
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Calvin Thrall studies business-government relations in international, national, and local politics. At IAS, he will finish his book on the role of the multinational firm in fostering the decline of postwar multilateralism.
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Ntina Tzouvala
Term 2
University of New South Wales
Law
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This year at IAS, Konstantina Tzouvala will work on a project on the crisis of neo/liberal legalism. Drawing from debates in heterodox political economy, she will examine how the slowdown of economic growth contributed to the crisis of specific international laws and institutions and, more broadly, the demise of the project of legalist economic governance.
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Yingyao Wang
University of Virginia
Sociology
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This year at IAS, Yingyao Wang will work on a project that develops a political economic and sociological analysis of the historical and contemporary waves of industrial relocation across Asia, with particular attention to the latest shift from China to Southeast Asia.
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Maya Wind
University of California, Riverside
Anthropology
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Maya Wind is a scholar of expertise, science and technology, and war. At IAS, she will investigate permanent war as a project of managing citizens on the homefront.
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Visitors
Robin Celikates
Term 2
Free University of Berlin
Social Philosophy
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Robin Celikates works on critical theory and the politics of social movements. At IAS, he will investigate how migration reconfigures social relations across transnational space, drawing out the implications of this reconfiguration for critical theory's epistemological foundations, social-theoretical categories, and political orientation.
Annelies Fryberger
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Historical Sociology
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Annelies Fryberger is working on a historical microsociology of slavery in the Mountain South. During her stay at IAS, she will be finishing a book manuscript based on this study.
Mitali Nagrecha
Justice Collective
Law
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Mitali Nagrecha is a lawyer and researcher focusing on policing and criminalization in the United States and Germany. While at IAS, she will research the migration consequences of criminal convictions, as well as community-driven strategies for challenging the use of evidence generated by surveillance technologies in criminal cases.
Director's Visitor
Matteo Bortolini
Università di Padova
Historical Sociology
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Matteo Bortolini is a historical sociologist who studies the production of expert knowledge in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While at IAS, he will work on a biography of the late American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), a founding member of the School of Social Science.
Research Associates - Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
Carina Albrecht
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Science and Technology Studies
Carina Albrecht researches digital media technologies and their impact on culture and society. During her time at IAS, she will work on the Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Narratives of AI (SINAI) project at the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab, and on her book, Magical Intelligence, which develops a media theory of AI.
Tatiana Carayannis
Global Affairs and Technology Advisor
International Relations, Global Governance, Emerging Technology, Violent Conflict, Research Ethics
Tatiana Carayannis is a leading scholar of global governance, peace and security, and Central Africa. Over two decades, she built and ran SSRC's peace and security programs, including new initiatives on China. She currently researches the geopolitics of AI and critical minerals, with implications for international peace and security.
Christine Custis
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab Manager
Ethical and Responsible AI Innovation
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Christine Custis is a Research Associate and Program Manager at the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab. A computer scientist and strategist with 20+ years of experience, she previously led programs and research at the Partnership on AI and now works with Alondra Nelson on AI, genomics, and quantum science.
Sola Kim
Civic Science Fellow / Research Associate
AI and Sustainability
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Sola Kim is a computational social scientist studying the societal and environmental implications of artificial intelligence, with interests in algorithmic auditing, digital governance, and democratic participation. At IAS, she works with the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab on the cumulative effects of AI in social life.
Deb Raji
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Computer Science and Public Policy
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Inioluwa Deborah Raji operates at the intersection of computer science and public policy, specifically studying how artificial intelligence products interact with legal and institutional accountability processes related to functional harms. At IAS, she will work on a series of articles on the design and regulation of administrative processes for AI deployments in public interest settings such as government, healthcare and education.
Alejandra Ruiz León
Civic Science Fellow / Research Associate
History of Science, Science Communication
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Alejandra researches the history and politics of scientific institutions, focusing on Latin America. She has built a parallel career in science communication, working on media relations for universities and outreach projects. At IAS, she is part of The Public's Science initiative, developing communication and translating research to help make science more publicly accountable.
