Summer Graduate Research Fellowships

2010 Summer Research Fellows

The 2010 summer research fellows and descriptions of their research projects:

Charles Gibbons

“The implications of monopoly in online advertising markets”

University of California, Berkeley
Economics

Personal Website

 Charles Gibbons
   

Daniel Gomez Gaviria

“Market power, misallocation and trade liberalization”

University of Chicago
Economics

 Daniel G Gaviria
   

Brendan Rittenhouse Green

“The impact of American public ideology on the U.S. grand strategy in Europe in the 20th century”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science (IR)

 Brendan R Green
   

Benjamin Hertzberg

“Religious expectations and beliefs and the Rawlsian approach to liberalism and justification”

Duke University
Political Science (Political Theory)

 

 Benjamin Hertzberg
   

Javier Hidalgo

“The ethics of amnesty for illegal immigrants”

Princeton University
Political Science (Political Philosophy)

Personal Website

 

 Javier Hidalgo
   

Urmee Khan

“How to write the rules that govern the way you change the rules, in constitutions or legal orders”

University of Texas, Austin
Economics

 

 Urmee Khan
   

Joseph Packer

“The author and reality in MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games)”

University of Pittsburgh
Communications

 

 Joseph Packer
   

Laura Phillips

“The development of 'new competition theory' in the early part of the twentieth century in the United States”

University of Virginia
History

Personal Website

 

 Laura Phillips
   

David Skarbek

“The role of prison gangs as enforcer of property and contract rights outside prison”

George Mason University
Economics

Personal Website

 David Skarbek (Vertical)
   

Lauri Tahtinen

“How to write the intellectual history of the Portuguese South Atlantic”

Uiversity of Cambridge
History

 

 Lauri Tahtinen
   

Kevin Vallier

“The contrast between governance consensus notions of public reasoning”

University of Arizona
Philosophy

Personal Website

 

 Kevin Vallier
   

Jason Walker

“The question of whether one generation can bind it's successors in terms of constitutional settlements”

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Philosophy

 

 Jason Walker