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Deborah Pearlstein is Director of the Princeton Program in Law and Public Policy and Charles and Marie Robertson…

Zaid Al-Ali was born in Madrid in 1977, spent the first ten years of his life in New York and the second ten years in London. His family is from Baghdad, Iraq. At the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, his father (who was Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations) resigned his position in protest, thereby effectively forcing his entire family…

Barbara Buckinx is a Research Scholar with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her research on global governance investigates the problem of the unrestrained and potential exercise of power in global politics. In her work, she aims to…

Charles Cameron is jointly appointed in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He specializes in the analysis of political institutions, particularly courts and law, the American presidency, and legislatures. His work often combines game theory and quantitative methods, and sometimes historical…

Fara Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton, and writes about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world, from the middle ages to the present. He previously taught at Oxford, where he is now a life fellow of All Souls College and of Exeter College.

He has made radio and TV for the BBC and other channels, and…

Maya Dimant is a Lecturer and Clinical Law Fellow in the Program in Law & Public Policy at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs. Her work focuses on racial justice and deconstructing the modern carceral state, sitting at the intersection of experiential pedagogy, law, alternative dispute resolution, and reenvisioning…

Lynda Dodd *04 has been a lecturer since 2018, teaching courses on gender, race, law, and public policy. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on qualitative methods. She was the Joseph H. Flom Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at The City University of New York-City College from 2010-2018 and was a member of the…

Laura F. Edwards is a legal historian whose research focuses on the nineteenth-century United States. She holds a B.A. in American Culture from Northwestern University, a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and taught at Duke University for twenty years before coming to Princeton. She is the author of five books…

Mickey Edwards, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. visiting professor, teaches public leadership in Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs.  He previously served as a member of Congress for 16 years, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for 11 years, and first joined the Princeton…

Martin S. Flaherty is a longtime is Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where he was Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs.  He is also Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law and Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham…

Paul Frymer is a Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests are broadly in American politics and public policy, engaging specifically in questions of law, civil rights and race, labor and employment, parties and social movements, and historical-institutional development.

He is the author of numerous…

Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For a decade, he was the director of Princeton University’s Program in American Studies. Hartog has spent his scholarly life obsessed with the difficulties and opportunities that come with studying how broad political and…

Peter Henderson is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, holding appointments in the Department of Computer Science, School of Public and International Affairs, and Center for Information Technology Policy. Previously, Henderson received a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford…

Heather Howard is a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she co-directs the Global Health Program and is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health & Wellbeing. She teaches courses in implementation of the Affordable Care Act, state and local health policy, public health and…

Jonathan Kastellec is a professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests are in American political institutions, with a particular focus on judicial politics and the politics of Supreme Court nominations and…

Mihir Kshirsagar runs CITP’s first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary technology policy clinic that gives students and scholars an opportunity to engage directly in the policy process. Most recently, he…

Frances E. Lee is jointly appointed in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs where she is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs.

Lee has broad interests in American politics, with a special focus on congressional politics, national policymaking, party politics, and representation. She…

Udi Ofer is the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the founding Director of the Policy Advocacy Clinic at Princeton University and teaches courses on civil rights, policing,…

For more than twenty years, Joshua Prager, a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, has written about historical secrets—revealing all from the hidden scheme that led to baseball’s most famous moment (Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World”) to the only-ever anonymous recipient of a Pulitzer…

Professor Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele’s work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and transnational law, particularly in…

Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and Stuart Professor of communications and public affairs at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. He also serves as co-editor of The American Prospect, a liberal magazine that he co-founded in 1990 with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich.

Sarah Staszak received her PhD in Politics from Brandeis University and is an Associate Research Scholar in Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of public law, policy, and American political development. She is the author of No Day in Court: Access…

Sam Wang is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. An alumnus of the California Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with honor in physics, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993. He conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University Medical Center and then…

New York Times best-selling author Julian E. Zelizer has been among the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst and a regular guest on NPR’s "Here and Now." He is the award-winning…