Current Fellows
Lab Fellows
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Fox earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He has reported on residential and commercial real estate since 2007, first at the North County Times in the San Diego metro area and then at SNL Financial in Charlottesville, Va., and New York City. Fox's current work focuses on public and nontraded REITs. In San Diego, he completed award-winning investigative articles on real estate agents with suspiciously high foreclosure rates. His fellowship year will explore the efficacy of government-funded housing programs, campaign finance and potential solutions should there be any connection. The project will be conducted in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism nonprofit based in Washington D.C.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Gelpi is a PhD candidate at Harvard in Health Policy with a concentration in Ethics. Her dissertation examines priority setting for HIV and mental health policy in Mexico from the perspective of ethics, history and quantitative analysis. More generally, her academic interests center on the ethics and history of public health, specifically regarding issues of procedural justice and resource allocation for health policy in developing countries. She has worked on public health projects in India, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico. She holds an MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and an AB degree, magna cum laude, in History and Science from Harvard University. Her fieldwork in Mexico has been funded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She is a past recipient of the Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship and traineeships from the National Institute of Mental Health. In 2011-12, she was a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition to her Lab Fellowship, in 2012-13 she will also serve as a Fellow at the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health. During her fellowship year, she will combine qualitative and normative methods to investigate public deliberation as a potential tool for mitigating institutional corruption, specifically in health policymaking.
- Lab Fellow, 2011-2014
Gray received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto and holds a MA in Criminology from the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. He was a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2009-11 where he researched the influence of organizational culture on medical errors inside hospital settings. His research interests include regulation, legal consciousness, organizational misconduct, higher education, and ethnography. His work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Human Relations, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Droit et Société, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Society. During his fellowship, he will examine the social organization of ethical behavior inside institutions of public trust.
- Graduate Fellow, 2009-2010
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2014
Marie Gryphon Newhouse expects to receive a Ph.D. in public policy at Harvard University in 2012. Most recently, she was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, where she published white papers, law review articles, and popular articles on issues related to civil and criminal justice reform. Previously she was Director of Educational Programs at the Institute for Humane Studies, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where she focused on education reform, and a litigation attorney in private practice. Her scholarly articles appear in the Journal of Law, Economics, & Policy, the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy. Her popular articles have appeared in Business Week, the Investor's Business Daily, Barron's, the National Law Journal's "Supreme Court Insider," National Review Online, and elsewhere. As a Lab Fellow, she will undertake a project on think tank ethics. She will develop an account of scholarly ethics appropriate to public policy think tanks, survey the existing ethical policies and practices of leading think tanks, and develop a set of institutional best practices and new proposals. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Gup is the author of three nonfiction books - The Book of Honor (Doubleday), Nation of Secrets (Doubleday), and A Secret Gift (Penguin). He was a staff writer on the Washington Post's investigative team, and later was a Congressional and investigative correspondent with Time. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Slate, Mother Jones, Columbia Journalism Review and NPR. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to China, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. A Pulitzer finalist, he has received a George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, Book-of-the-Year from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard's Shorenstein Center. He has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Case Western Reserve, Emerson, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Gup holds a B.A. from Brandeis University in the classics and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University. During his fellowship year, he will examine the degree to which partisanship has undermined oversight functions in the federal government.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Kath Hall is a senior academic at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law. In 2011 she completed her PhD at ANU, focusing on the regulation and psychology of lawyer dishonesty in Australia. Kath holds an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Adelaide and a Masters Degree in Law from the University of London. Kath's other primary area of research is transnational anti-corruption law. During her Fellowship with the Center, Kath will conduct empirical research on the implementation of anti-corruption legislation by large law firms in Australia. In particular, Kath will focus on the systems-based or compliance aspects of anti-corruption regulation and her empirical research will explore organizational attitudes and resistance to such change. The term "resistance" is used in this project to cover a wide range of behavior including rationalization, avoidance, defiance and game-playing. Psychological research suggests that such behaviors are often a strategic response to situations of external regulation.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Hwong is an MD/PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard Medical School/Harvard University. She received a BS in Neuroscience from Brown University and an MA in Family and Sexuality Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her research interests include health and social networks, patient-doctor dynamics and consumer behavior in healthcare. During the fellowship year, she will explore how patients evaluate and respond to physician disclosure of industry payments and how disclosure affects perceptions of the medical profession.
- Lab Fellow, 2010-2013
Jones is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy. He received his PhD in Political Science in 2010 from the University of Oklahoma and holds an MA and BS in Political Science, both granted from Idaho State University. His research focuses primarily on the role of narrative in shaping public policy, particularly as it relates to public opinion. This interest has led to several collaborations across several substantive issue areas with Yale University's Cultural Cognition Project. During his fellowship, he will again be collaborating with the Cultural Cognition Project to examine the role of cultural orientations and narrative communication in shaping how people process factual information related to campaign finance.
- Lab Fellow, 2011-2013
Jorgensen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas - Pan American. As a residential fellow in 2011-2012, Jorgensen improved the quality of American campaign finance data by using donor-matching algorithms to identify every unique donor, and worked with Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis and Baker Library to develop methods for merging campaign finance data with other demographic, political, and economic data. As a non-residential fellow in 2012-2013, Jorgensen will utilize this new data to study congressional corruption (broadly defined). His empirical and normative project investigates how powerful economic actors, who are situated within the industrial structure of the American economy, use political money to influence the partisan control of Congress and policy formulation. The normative aspect of Jorgensen's project seeks to develop tools that empower citizens to correct our current representation crisis, the crafting of rules and regulations to benefit the wealthy at the cost of the public good. He will post these tools during the course of his fellowship year at http://www.politicalmoneyproject.org.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Hyoung-Goo Kang is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Finance at Hanyang University Business School in Seoul, Korea. His research focuses on innovative institutions, non-technological innovation, strategic process and resource allocation. He received a PhD and MA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, an MA from the Economics Department at University of Virginia, and a BA from the Economics Department at Seoul National University. He has worked at Lehman Brothers Quantitative Research, Samsung Asset Management, International Monetary Fund, Accenture Management Consulting and Republic of Korea Air Force. During his fellowship, he will undertake empirical and theoretical research about how economic relations affect the judgment of judges and the function of the judicial system. His research attempts to contribute to the historic, but still active, debate about the interaction between legal and economic system.