The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance

People

People

Director

  • Mark Blyth

    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).

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Advisory Board

  • Aditi Sahasrabuddhe

    Aditi Sahasrabuddhe

    Assistant Professor of Political Science
    aditi_s@brown.edu
  • Andrew Schrank

    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
  • Nicholas Ziegler

    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

Staff

  • Jenna Davis

    Jenna Davis

    Program Manager, Rhodes Center for International Economics & Finance and Climate Solutions Lab

Affiliates

  • Peter Andreas

    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

    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
  • Dan Driscoll

    Daniel Driscoll

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia , Affiliate, past Rhodes Center postdoctoral research fellow
    danieldriscoll@virginia.edu
  • Nicolo Fraccaroli

    Nicolò Fraccaroli

    Affiliate, past Rhodes Center postdoctoral research fellow
    nicfraccaroli@gmail.com
    Research Interests Political Economy, Populism, Central Banking, European politics, Austerity
  • Alexander Gourevitch

    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

    Brendan Greeley

    US Economics Editor for the Financial Times
    Areas of Expertise US Treasury, Federal Reserve
  • Megan Greene

    Megan Greene

    Visiting Fellow, External member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee
    megan_greene@brown.edu
  • Patrick Heller

    Patrick Heller

    Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
    patrick_heller@brown.edu
  • Victoria Ingham

    Veronica Ingham

    Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    veronica_ingham@brown.edu
  • Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

    Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

    Schreiber Family Professor of Economics, Director of the Global Linkages Lab
    sebnem_kalemli-ozcan@brown.edu
  • Stephen Kinsella

    Stephen Kinsella

    stephen.kinsella@ul.ie
  • Mathias Larsen

    Mathias Lund Larsen

    Senior Policy Fellow, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, past Rhodes Center postdoctoral research associate
    mathias_larsen@brown.edu
  • Anthony Levitas

    Anthony Levitas

    Director, Undergraduate Policy Concentration, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    anthony_levitas@brown.edu
  • Glenn Loury

    Glenn Loury

    Professor of Economics, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
    glenn_loury@brown.edu
  • Patrick McHugh

    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

    Josh Pacewicz

    Assistant Professor of Sociology
    pacewicz@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Finance, Qualitative Methods
  • Seth Rockman

    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

    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
  • Sir Paul Tucker

    Paul Tucker

    paul_tucker@hks.harvard.edu
  • Öner Tulum

    Öner Tulum

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

    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