Current Fellows
Lab Fellows
- Lab Fellow, 2010-2013
Brown received her PhD in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in 2006. Prior to joining the Center, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney and a temporary assistant professor at American University. Her primary research interests are the causes and consequences of collusion, misinformation, fraud, and distorted incentives, particularly in the audit and teaching professions. She is writing a book Information Theater: When the Watchers are Blind, which is a history of the failure of the financial audit profession to serve its public purpose.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Hansoo Choi is a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in department of economics at University of Pittsburgh. He holds a BA from Seoul National University and a MA from University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining his Ph.D. program, he worked as an activist at NGOs that are dedicated to monitoring corruption and enhancing corporate governance in Korea. While there, he wrote a series of in-depth reports about a large family business group (a chaebol) and edited a guidebook for whistleblowers. His primary research interests involve the two topics that he previously addressed. His first paper presents a theoretical model for how a chaebol occurs and evolves over time. In a subsequent paper, he deals with succession problems in a chaebol by extending the framework he established. Another research subject involves how a public official is selected relates to corruption in a public sector. His work mainly sheds light on how motives for committing a corrupt act differ with bureaucracy selection procedure. Using white-collar criminal data sets, he will empirically examine corruption rooted in South Korea's judiciary system.
- Lab Fellow, 2010-2013
- Network Fellow, 2013-2014
Cosgrove is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. She is co-editor of Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis and a contributing editor to Psychiatric Ethics and the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Institutions and the Community. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and her research on conflict of interest has been cited and discussed in major media outlets. Recent publications include "Antidepressants and breast and ovarian cancer risk: A systematic review of the epidemiological and pre-clinical literature and researchers' financial associations with industry" (with co-authors Ling, Creasey, Anaya-McKivergan, Myers, and Huybrechts) and "Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists" (with Sheldon Krimsky). Her current research agenda focuses on two main areas: developing training practices that help mental health professionals think critically about and try to avoid bias in psychiatric diagnosis, and addressing ethical and medico-legal issues that arise in psychiatry because of financial conflicts of interest. Cosgrove will continue this work as a non-residential research fellow in 2012-2013.
- Lab Fellow, 2010-2013
Desai is Assistant Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has a bachelor's degree in engineering, a master's degree in Finance, and a doctoral degree in Management. She has received several grants and fellowships, including a grant from the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai, India, a fellowship from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and a fellowship from the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her work has been published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and has also received extensive media coverage. In 2010-12 Desai was a residential Lab Fellow at the Center, investigating broadly the role of ethical nudges or noncoercive ways of leading people down moral pathways. She will continue this work as a non-residential fellow this year.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Dincer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Illinois State University. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oregon in 2004. His research focuses on how cultural factors such as ethnic and religious diversity affect economic growth and inequality through channels such as corruption and trust (and/or social capital). His work appeared in journals including Economics of Governance, Economics Letters, and Public Choice. During his fellowship, he will construct new measures of legal and illegal corruption across US states.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Dotan is a professor and former dean at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He received his LL.B. at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley and LL.D. from the Hebrew University. He did his post-doctoral studies at Wolfson College Oxford. He clerked for the Supreme Court of Israel (Chief Justice Shamgar 1984-85). His main areas of interest are public law, administrative and constitutional law, judicial review, privatization and the study of governmental lawyers. He was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School and University of Miami Law School. He has been the recipient of grants, fellowships and prizes such as the Israel Science Foundation grant and the Shneior Zalman Cheshin Prize. He published in journals such as Law & Society Review and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He serves as the President of the Israeli Association for Law and Society. During his fellowship, he will study the use of public procurements as a vehicle to track and measure institutional corruption in municipalities in Israel and the efficacy of gate-keeping institutions in this respect.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Sandoval is a Professor at the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an award-winning international expert in transparency, corruption control and political economy. She is the Director of the Laboratory for the Documentation and Analysis of Corruption and Transparency of the UNAM (www.corrupcion.unam.mx), and a Member of Mexico´s National System of Researchers, and recipient of the prestigious 2009 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias award for her academic work in political economy. She holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz as well as an MA in Latin American Studies from the UNAM. She has two BAs, one in Economics from the UNAM and the other in Sociology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City (UAM). A prolific writer, her most recent books are: Contemporary Debates on Corruption & Transparency: Rethinking State, Market & Society, IIS-UNAM/World Bank, Mexico City/Washington, DC. 2011 and Crisis, Rentismo e Intervencionismo Neoliberal en la Banca: México (1982-1999), Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, Mexico City, 2011. She has published over two dozen book chapters and journal articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Administrative Law Review, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Revista Argumentos, Perfiles Latinoamericanos and Fondo de Cultura Económica. She has worked as a senior consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, Global Integrity, the Open Society Institute and the Budget Accountability Project.
During her fellowship, she will research how the new "structural pluralism" of public authority means that old anti-corruption and transparency strategies limited to reducing bribes and assuring basic bureaucratic "hygiene" are not sufficient to bring about the change in the relationship between state and society needed to better "deliver the goods" to citizens in the context of democratization. This is especially the case in highly unequal societies with a strong power-elite and where the private sphere is controlled by a small number of oligopolistic corporations, as is the case in countries such as Mexico, Russia, India, Indonesia and Brazil.
- Lab Fellow, 2011-2013
English received his PhD in Political Science from Duke University in 2010 and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Political Theory Project at Brown University in 2010-11. He is a political theorist with wide ranging interests in Political Economy, Public Policy, and the Philosophy of Social Science. During his fellowship, he will work on a series of empirical studies aimed at better characterizing diverse rationales for distrust in political, financial, and medical institutions. Of particular interest is the degree to which people view problems of corruption as product of bad institutions, bad people, or irreconcilable values. The results will help inform a further set of investigations that examine strategies for eliciting ethical conscientiousness in situations where straightforward incentive design is infeasible. The project will ultimately culminate in a short book on the "architecture of public trust" that will aim to develop a typology of various sources of corruption and suggest the most promising avenues for reform.
- Lab Fellow, 2011-2013
Feldman teaches in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he has served since 2004. He received a BA in Psychology and a LLB from Bar-Ilan University, and a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel in 1998-99. His main research interests include employment law; behavioral analysis of law; ethical decision-making; regulatory impact; enforcement & compliance; legal ambiguity; and social norms. He has been the recipient of a number of fellowships and grants including Rothschild, Fulbright, Alon, Zeltner, Marry Currie, The Israel National Science Foundation, The American Bar Association and the German-Israel Foundation. He has published more than 30 (mostly joint) papers on these topics in peer reviewed journals such as the Law and Society Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and Law & Contemporary Problems and law journals such as the NYU Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal and Northwestern Law Review. During his fellowship, he will engage in a number of collaborative experimental projects all related to the implicit and explicit effects of law on ethical decision-making.
This fellowship position was established in 2010 and made possible by a generous donation from Mrs. Lily Safra, whose wish it is to promote and expand the study of ethics in the State of Israel.
- Lab Fellow, 2012-2013
Fields is a prize-winning journalist at The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review. He has investigated regulatory roles in economic crises, including the 1987 market crash, the S&L debacle, Enron and the 2008 mortgage meltdown. He was a member of the Herald staff that won the 1993 Pulitzer for Public Service.
During his fellowship, Fields will examine how the growing axis of interdependence between Wall Street and Washington blunts the efficacy of regulatory institutions. Fields will also analyze future threats institutional corruption poses to the domestic economy and U.S. global leadership.
Fields formerly taught at Hong Kong Baptist University and Beijing's Tsinghua University, and founded a business journalism master's program at Florida International University. He has an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and a master's in journalism from Columbia University, earned during a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism.