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