Steering Committee - Core Faculty
His philosophical and teaching interests focus on international political theory, democratic theory, the theory of human rights, and legal theory. Beitz's book, The Idea of Human Rights, was published in 2009. Other publications include Political Theory and International Relations (1999) and Political Equality:…
Her research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships such as cooperation, competition, and power. She publishes widely in social cognition and is currently investigating emotional prejudices at the cultural, interpersonal, and neural levels. A prolific author…
His research centers on ecosystem analysis with emphasis on the emergence and maintenance of geographically broad patterns in cycling of nutrients and greenhouse trace gases. His current interests include broad controls on nutrient cycles in temperate and tropical forests, emergence of macroscopic properties, and biophysical…
Levin's current interests are in the parallels between ecological systems and financial and economic systems, particularly with regard to what makes them collapse and to the evolution and development of structure and organization, and in the management of public goods and common-pool resources. His ecological research is concerned…
He is an historian of American capitalism with interests in business and economic history, cultural and intellectual history, and the histories of slavery and freedom. His book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and RIsk in America ( 2012) won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson…
He writes and teaches on political theory, ethics, public policy, and law, with a focus on liberalism, democracy and citizenship, diversity and civic education, religion and politics, and the family and sexuality. His current research concerns immigration and social justice, constitutional democracy in the U.S., and democracy and…
Denise directs the Ph.D. program in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson School. The objective of Mauzerall's research is to utilize science to inform the development of far-sighted air quality policy that considers the impact of air pollution on health, agriculture and climate change. Ph.D…
Her interests include the political economy of trade policy, the interaction of domestic and international politics, globalization, foreign aid, and international trade and environmental policy. Milner's current research focuses on two-level games, international trade, relations between developed and developing countries, the…
His research interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. Much of his research aims to understand the potential for dangerous outcomes of increasing levels of greenhouse gases by exploring the effects of global warming on ecosystems such as coral reefs, on the ice sheets and…
His research focuses on the neurophysiology of human reasoning, notably, deductive and inductive inference. Osherson's recent experiments bear on the neural mechanisms underlying the ability to combine elementary concepts into the meanings expressed by language. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania.
His interests include the processes that govern ecological communities, the interplay between community and ecosystem-level processes, and the interactions between the global biosphere and climate. Pacala's research involves all aspects of the global carbon cycle; currently he is focusing on a new model for the terrestrial biosphere…
His research investigates global-to-regional climatic effects due to anthropogenic and natural forcing—greenhouse gases and aerosols—using state-of-the-art global climate models. Ramaswamy also focuses on understanding the hydrologic cycle in the earth's climate system, and the role of water vapor and clouds in climate change. Ph.D…