Eric Gartzke

Mentor: Eric Gartzke, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at San Diego (UCSD)

Fellow: Zane Kelly, University of Colorado at Boulder
Finance at War: Debt, Borrowing, and Conflict

Erik Gartzke is associate professor of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He studies the impact of information on war, peace and international institutions. Gartzke's research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Politics and elsewhere. He is currently working on two books – one on globalization and the other on the democratic peace.

Jack Levy

Mentor: Jack Levy, Board of Governors' Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Fellow: Aaron Rapport, University of Minnesota
Planning in the Shadow of the Future: U.S. Military Interventions and Time Horizons

Jack Levy is Board of Governors' Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and Senior Associate at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is past president of the International Studies Association (2007–08) and of the Peace Science Society (2005–06). He has previously held tenured positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota, and visiting or adjunct positions at Tulane, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and NYU. Levy received APSA's Helen Dwight Reid Award (1977) for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975–76, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association (2000). His research focuses primarily on the causes of war, foreign policy decision-making, and qualitative methodology.

Jana Lipman

Mentor: Jana Lipman, Assistant Professor of History, Tulane University

Fellow: Vanessa Walker, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ambivalent Allies: Advocates, Diplomats, and the Struggle for an 'American' Human Rights Policy

Jana Lipman is an assistant professor of history at Tulane University. She is a specialist on 20th-century U.S. history, especially foreign relations, social and political history, Cuba and Vietnam.

Lipman is interested in US foreign relations broadly construed to include diplomatic and non-state actors. Her recent work on the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) reorients the field of foreign relations and demonstrates how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution functioned in working people's lives. Through extensive field and archival research in Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo, Cuba, she analyzes how Cuban base employees navigated the politics and contradictions of living in Cuba and working for the US military. Her current research interests include the fields of refugee studies, human rights, and US military bases in the second half of the twentieth century.

Nancy Maclean

Mentor: Nancy Maclean, Professor of History and African American Studies, Northwestern University

Fellow: Lily Geismer, University of Michigan
Don't Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990

Nancy MacLean is professor of History and African American Studies, Chair of the Department of History, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She specializes in the history of social movements and public policy, with expertise in African-American, women's and labor history. Her current research focuses on the modern women's movement, conservative movement, and the origins of school vouchers. She has written Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press, 1994). MacLean also co-chairs the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies and serves as senior history adviser to Creating a Community of Scholars, a three-year project in partnership with Evanston Township High School and the Minority Student Achievement Network, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, to improve history learning among secondary school students.

James McAllister

Mentor: James McAllister, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Williams College

Fellow: Brendan Green, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Two Concepts of Liberty: American Grand Strategy and the Liberal Tradition

James McAllister is associate professor and chair of the Leadership Studies Program at Williams College, as well as Gaudino Scholar for 2004–06. He earned his Ph.D from Columbia University. He has written No Exit: America and the German Problem 1943–1954 (Cornell University Press, 2002). McAllister's primary interests include American foreign policy, the Cold War, and European politics. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including the Oakley Fellowship (Williams College Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences), the Lyndon Baines Johnson Travel Grant, the John Olin Fellowship, and the Columbia University President's Fellowship. He has served as an article reviewer for Political Science Quarterly, and as a book reviewer for Penn State University Press.

Adam Sheingate

Mentor: Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Fellow: Gwendoline Alphonso, Cornell University
Progressive & Traditional Family Orders: Parties, Ideologies, and the Development of Social Policy across the 20th Century

Adam Sheingate is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has also held fellowships at Oxford University and the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate in political science at Yale. Sheingate's specialties are American politics and comparative public policy. His first book, The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan (Princeton University Press, 2001) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. He has also published a number of articles and book chapters on a number of topics, including biotechnology policy in the United States and Europe. Sheingate is currently writing a book on the development of political consulting and its consequences for American democracy titled Building a Business of Politics.

Stephen Skowronek

Mentor: Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, Yale University

Fellow: Eric Lomazoff, Harvard University
The Life and Death of the Hydra-Headed Monster: Antebellum Bank Regulation and American State Development, 1781-1836

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research concerns American national institutions and American political history. His publications include Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997), The Search for American Political Development (Cambridge, 2004, with Karen Orren), and Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (University Press of Kansas, 2008). Among other activities, he was co-founder of the journal Studies in American Political Development, which he edited between 1986 and 2007, and he provided the episode structure and thematic content for the PBS miniseries: The American President (Kunhardt Productions).

Deborah Stone

Mentor: Deborah Stone, Visiting and Research Professor in the Department of Government and the Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College

Fellow: Christy Chapin, University of Virginia
Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945-1970

Deborah Stone is visiting and research professor in the Department of Government and the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stone has also served as the David R. Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at Brandeis University from 1986 to 1999, and has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs at MIT, Yale, Tulane, and Duke University. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Law School, Harvard University Program on Ethics and the Professions, the Open Society Institute, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has served on many government and non-profit advisory commissions, including the Social Security Administration, the Human Genome Commission, and several Institute of Medicine committees. She is also a founding member of the Health Section of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Stone's research focuses on social policy, with an emphasis on health, welfare, and families. In addition to many articles, she has written Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (W.W. Norton & Co., 2001). In 2000 she received a Mentor Award from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association, as well as the Miriam K. Mills Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Policy Studies.