Hoover Institution director John Raisian has announced the recipients of the annual postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program for the 2002–2003 academic year.
Recognized as one of the preeminent fellowships in the United States, the program, now completing its 30th year, provides scholars an opportunity to spend one year at the Hoover Institution conducting independent research on current or historical public policy issues.
The national fellows use the release time from teaching to advance their professional careers by completing an original and significant research project at the Hoover Institution. The National Fellows Program has awarded nearly 400 fellowships to outstanding scholars from universities across the United States and Canada.
"The National Fellows Program functions as a significant part of the academic visitor component of the Hoover Institution. We are delighted to welcome to Hoover another talented group of scholars who share our interest in research and policy," said Hoover director John Raisian.
The program is administered by Hoover associate director Thomas H. Henriksen, serving as the program's executive secretary, assisted by Joy Taylor. The 2002–2003 fellows, academic affiliations and topics are
Professor Michael Bailey
Department of Government, Georgetown University
Proposal: "Money and Democracy: Enduring Questions of Contemporary Relevance"
Professor G. Marcus Cole
Stanford Law School, Stanford University
Proposal: "Private Dissolution and Restructuring of Failed Technology Firms in Silicon Valley"
Professor Lisa Cook
Center for International Development, Harvard University
Proposal: "An Investigation into Russian Financial Markets, International Trade, and Firm Innovation"
Professor Sven Feldmann
Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Proposal: "Lobbying the Bureaucracy"
Professor Francine Hirsch
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Proposal: "Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, 1910–1941"
Professor Dirk Krueger
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Proposal: "The Distribution of Consumer Durables and Financial Wealth Over the Business Cycle: Empirical Findings, a Theoretical Explanation and Policy Implications"
Professor Chappell Lawson
Department of Political Science, MIT
Proposal: "Campaigns, Elections, and Democratization"
Professor Jonathan Levin
Department of Economics, Stanford University
Proposal: "The Economics of Professional Partnerships"
Professor Alan Levine
Department of Government, American University
Proposal: "The Idea of America in European Political Thought: 1492–1992"
Professor Hao Li
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Proposal: "Unraveling of Matching Markets with Endogenous Search"
Professor Alan T. Sorensen
Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Proposal: "Empirical Studies of Social Interactions in Consumer Behavior"
Professor Strom Thacker
Department of International Relations, Boston University
Proposal: "The Politics of Governance"
Professor Romain Wacziarg
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Proposal: "Trade Openness and Structural Change"
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