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Our Team
Our Team
Public intellectuals committed to making better, smarter public policy
We are a team of public intellectuals, from diverse scholarly backgrounds, who bring our academic training to bear on public-policy discourse. Our team is grounded in the the scholarly culture of the university, and we extend our network to government, think tanks, and public-policy organizations in Washington, D.C.
Resident Members
Andrew Light PhD
Director (on leave)
Jesse Kirkpatrick PhD
Acting Director
Wesley Buckwalter, PhD
Faculty Fellow
Andrew Peterson PhD
Faculty Fellow
Daniel Nicholson, PhD
Faculty Fellow
Roger Paden PhD
Senior Fellow
Douglas S. Irvin-Erickson PhD
George Mason University
Non-Resident Members
Erik Angner PhD
Stockholm University
Gil Hersch PhD
Virginia Tech University
Eric Katz PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Lanphier PhD
University of Cincinnati
Shannon Fyfe JD PhD
Faculty Fellow
David Morrow PhD
American University
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C. Anthony Pfaff PhD
Strategic Studies Institute
Gwynne Taraska PhD
Climate Advisers
Sarah W. Denton MA
Research Fellow
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