Past Research Speakers

Mar
20
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Eli Finkel - POSTPONED (to be rescheduled AY 20-21)

Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
Beyond Pride and Prejudice: Can Insights from Relationship Psychology Improve Our Politics?
Mar 20, 2020 12:00 PM

Eli Finkel is a professor in the psychology department and in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He earned has BA (1997) in psychology from Northwestern and his PhD (2001) in social/quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 2003.

Mar
06
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Steven Blader

Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business, NYU Stern
Your Status Becomes You (and Why That Matters)
Mar 06, 2020 12:00 PM

Steven Blader received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University (2002). His research identifies the organizational conditions that motivate employee performance by addressing employees’ social and relational concerns in the workplace. His work focuses on understanding how employees assess their social and relational standing in their work organizations, and the influence of those judgments on their behavior at work.

Feb
07
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Sarah Bermeo

Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Trade and Development: Industrialized Country Preferences for Free Trade Agreements over the WTO
Feb 07, 2020 12:00 PM

Sarah Bermeo is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science in the Sanford School at Duke University. Her research lies at the intersection of international relations and development, with a particular focus on relations between industrialized and developing countries.

Sponsored by the Global Policy Center

Jan
24
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Anuj K. Shah

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, Chicago Booth
Behavioral Science and Crime
Jan 24, 2019 12:00 PM

Anuj K. Shah studies the psychology that arises from facing resource scarcity. In one line of work, he studies how being short on money and time affects decision-making. In another line of work, he studies how behavioral science can help shape interventions to reduce crime and violence.

Dec
02
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Miguel Urquiola

Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Columbia University
TBD
Dec 02, 2019 12:00 PM

Miguel Urquiola is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he also chairs the Columbia Committee on the Economics of Education.  He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Development Economics (BREAD).

Nov
08
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Sheila Olmstead

Professor of Public Affairs, Texas LBJ School
The value of water quality: Estimating amenity and recreational benefits
Nov 08, 2019 12:00 PM

Sheila Olmstead is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin (UT), a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, DC and a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.

Nov
07
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Amanda Kowalski

Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
TBD
Nov 07, 2019 3:30 PM

Amanda Kowalski, the Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Department of Economics, is a health economist who specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to answer questions that inform current debates in health policy.

Nov
01
Faculty Research Speaker Series

Justin B. Bullock

Assistant Professor of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Discretion, and Policing
Nov 01, 2019 12:00 PM

Justin B. Bullock is an assistant professor in the Public Service and Administration department and a research fellow in the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy. Bullock earned his PhD in public administration and policy with a specialization in public management and public policy from the University of Georgia in 2014, as well as a master’s in public administration and a bachelor’s in business administration, also from the University of Georgia.

Oct
25
Faculty Research Speaker Series

David McKenzie

Lead Economist, The World Bank
Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
Oct 25, 2019

David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit at the World Bank. He received his B.Com.(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent four years as an assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University.