The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance

People

Director

Mark Blyth

Director, The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

mark_blyth@brown.edu

+1 401 863 1567

Research Interests International and comparative political economy, banks and finance, Europe, monetary policy

Mark Blyth is a political economist whose research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013, and The Future of the Euro (with Matthias Matthijs) (Oxford University Press 2015).

Advisory Board

Aditi Sahasrabuddhe

Assistant Professor of Political Science

aditi_s@brown.edu
Andrew Schrank

Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

andrew_schrank@brown.edu

Research Interests Latin America, globalization, supply chains, labor standards, regulation
J. Nicholas Ziegler

Director of Postdoctoral Program, Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research)

j_ziegler@brown.edu

+ 1 401 863 9083

Research Interests Comparative politics , political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany

Affiliates

Peter Andreas

John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Brown University

peter_andreas@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests border policing, drug enforcement, homeland security, illicit trade, immigration control, international crime control, smuggling, transnational crime, war economies
Nitsan Chorev

Director, Graduate Program in Development, Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs, Brown University

nitsan_chorev@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Global Health, International Political Economy, Global and Transnational Sociology, Development, Comparative Historical Sociology, International Organizations, Social Theory
Daniel Driscoll

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia , Affiliate, past Rhodes Center postdoctoral research fellow

danieldriscoll@virginia.edu
Nicolò Fraccaroli

Affiliate, past Rhodes Center postdoctoral research fellow

nicfraccaroli@gmail.com

Research Interests Political Economy, Populism, Central Banking, European politics, Austerity
Alex Gourevitch

Associate Professor of Political Science

alexander_gourevitch@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests history of political and economic thought, theories of freedom, work and leisure, Marxism, rights theory, republicanism, democratic theory
Brendan Greeley

US Economics Editor for the Financial Times

Areas of Expertise US Treasury, Federal Reserve
Megan Greene

Visiting Fellow, External member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee

megan_greene@brown.edu
Patrick Heller

Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

patrick_heller@brown.edu
Veronica Ingham

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

veronica_ingham@brown.edu
Stephen Kinsella

stephen.kinsella@ul.ie
Anthony Levitas

Director, Undergraduate Policy Concentration, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

anthony_levitas@brown.edu
Glenn Loury

Professor of Economics, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences

glenn_loury@brown.edu
Patrick McHugh

Co-Academic Director of the IE Brown Executive MBA program, School of Professional Studies , Professor of Practice, School of Engineering

patrick_joseph_mchugh@brown.edu

Research Profile
Josh Pacewicz

Assistant Professor of Sociology

pacewicz@brown.edu

Research Interests Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Finance, Qualitative Methods
Seth Rockman

Associate Professor of History

seth_rockman@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests American Revolution, antebellum America, capitalism, Early Republic, economic history, labor history, material culture, slavery, welfare reform
Simon Tilford

Deputy Research Director, Global Economy and Finance, Chatham House

stilford@chathamhouse.org

Research Interests globalisation, macroeconomic policy, economics of populism, corporate governance, taxation, the political economy of the eurozone, Brexit
Paul Tucker

paul_tucker@hks.harvard.edu
Öner Tulum

Postdoctoral Research Associate at SOAS University of London, Senior Researcher at the Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet)
Ernesto R Zaldivar

Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science , Program Director of the Master of Science in Cybersecurity

ezaldiva@cs.brown.edu

Research Interests Security Policy, Human-Computer Interaction