2012 Graduate Student Fellows in Democracy & Markets

The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research addresses the relationship between democracy and markets. Through monthly forums in Cambridge and New Haven, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2012 fellows in the Democracy & Markets program.

 

 

Deirdre Bloome

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: Economic Opportunity, Mobility, and Inequality in the U.S.: Public Perceptions and Preferences

 

 

 

Eli Cook

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Statistically Significant: Economic Indicators and the Contested Capitalization of America, 1790-1935

 

 

 

Edward Fertik

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Industrialism, Statism, and Globalization: The Development of the Brazilian Iron and Steel Industry in Global Perspective, 1900-1954

 

 

Nikhar Gaikwad

YALE UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Political Coalitions and Economic Regulation

 

 

 

 

Carl Gershenson

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: Protecting Markets from Society: Financial Regulation and the Definition of Legitimate Claims on Corporations

 

 

Jeremy Kessler

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY; YALE LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: The New Citizens: Conscientious Objectors, Economic Libertarians, and the Long Shadow of Conscription

 

 

 

Luke Mayville

YALE UNIVERSITY, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: The Theme of Anti-Aristocracy in the Writings of the Anti-Federalists

 

 

 

Celia Paris

YALE UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Citizen Reactions to Political Disagreement Among Elected Officials

 

 

 

Kim Pernell

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: The Context for Crisis: The Evolution of Banking Regulation in Spain, Canada, and the United States, 1980-2005

 

 

 

Vincent Pons

MIT, ECONOMICS

PROJECT TITLE: Registering Unregistered Voters: A Comparison of Different Registration Interventions in France

 

 

 

Kris-Stella Trump

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Political Attitudes

 

 

 

Ty Turley

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, ECONOMICS

PROJECT TITLE: Social Capital, Political Learning, and Institutional Trust in New Democracies

 

 

 

Dustin Walker

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Conservatism, Banking, and Politics in the Reagan Era: Home Loan Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s

 

 

Vanessa Williamson

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: When Do Americans Vote For Tax Increases? The Politics of Tax Ballot Measures Since 1970