People
Who We Are
The PTP is comprised of a core group of four faculty and two staff members. Each year we welcome a select group of postdoctoral fellows-in-residence as we proudly watch the graduating postdocs move on to the next phase of their careers.
Director
Associate Director
PTP Professors
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David Skarbek
Associate Professor, Political ScienceDavid Skarbek is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research seeks to understand how extralegal governance institutions form, operate, and evolve. He has published extensively on the informal institutions that govern life in prisons in California and around the globe. His work has appeared in leading journals in political science, economics, and criminology, including in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, and Journal of Criminal Justice. His book, The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System (Oxford University Press), received the American Political Science Association’s 2016 William H. Riker Award for the best book in political economy in the previous three years. It was also awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime and was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s 2014 Ethnography Award. His work has been featured widely in national and international media outlets, such as the Atlantic, BBC, Business Insider, the Economist, Forbes, the Independent, and the Times. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2010.
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Emily Skarbek
Associate Professor, Research, Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research SeminarEmily Skarbek is Associate Research Professor in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2009. Her research examines civil society, governance, and history of economic thought. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. In 2014, she was awarded the annual Gordon Tullock prize for best article published in Public Choice by a junior scholar. She is also a contributing author to several books including After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound and Hayek and the Modern World.
PTP Postdoctoral Research Associates
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Arthur Ghins
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ph.D., Political Theory, University of Cambridge -
Anthony Gregory
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley -
Antong Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University -
Julia Netter
Postdoctoral Research Associate, DPhil, Politics, University of Oxford -
Lowry Pressly
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ph.D., Political Theory, Harvard University