2006/2007 Fellows

• Dan Acland: I am a third year student in the Department of Economics. My primary field of interest within Economics is Behavioral Economics. (Known at Berkeley as Pscyh. & Econ.) I am primarily interested in issues of self-control, habit-formation, and projection-bias and how they affect consumption and time-allocation decisions. Methodologically I am primarily interested in randomized field experiments.
• Jeffrey Deason Goldman School of Public Policy PhD. Student
• Andrew Kelley: I am a PhD student in the Department of Political Science. My primary field is American politics, with a focus on the politics of policy implementation, particularly education policy. His current research interests include the implementation of No Child Left Behind, the politics of school choice, and parental involvement.
• Amy Lerman: I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. My research is focused in the areas of political psychology and American public policy, and I am particularly interested in issues related to social identity, political participation, and compliance. My dissertation examines how incarceration shapes individuals' civic attitudes and behavior.
• Melissa Sills I am a Ph.D. student in the Public Policy department and have completed a concurrent Master's in Demography and a field in Economics. My research focuses on the relationship between changing family demographics and social policy.
• Alex Theodoridis I entered Berkeley's doctoral program in Political Science in 2005 after earning a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. My research interests are in American political behavior, particularly campaigns, elections, voting behavior and political participation. I received a BA in English and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1998, after which I served for six years as Chief of Staff at the UVa Center for Politics. I spent most of my free time in college working in political and campaign offices, including a stint in 1997 as Research Director for a Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial campaign. My wife, Chrissie Switzer Theodoridis, and I live in beautiful North Berkeley, where we appreciate the spectacular views, the access to an amazing variety of outdoor activities, fantastic and diverse cuisine, as well as the relative inactivity of the Hayward fault.
• Erika Weissinger Goldman School of Public Policy PhD. Student

2007/2008 Fellows

• Steve Buck: Agricultural & Resource Economics PhD. Student
• Sara Chatfield: Political Science PhD. Student
• Karin Martin: Goldman School of Public Policy PhD. Student
• Sharyl Rabinovici: Mrs. Rabinovici is currently a third year doctoral student at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Her dissertation will focus on how individual psychology affects societal responses to environmental threats such as water pollution, food safety, and natural disasters as well as emerging technologies. She received a B.S. in Geologic and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University with distinction in 1997 and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago in 2000 where she was a Harris Fellow. From 2000 to 2005, Mrs. Rabinovici analyzed environmental policies as a Physical Scientist/Economist for the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park. Her professional interests include: program design, implementation and evaluation; risk assessment, communication, and management; decision analysis; public participation; and the economics of environmental regulation.
• Mike Urbancic: Economics PhD. Student