Phenomenal Works

Phenomenal Works: Davarian Baldwin

In his new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, Davarian Baldwin identifies an “increasingly parasitic” relationship between universities and the cities they occupy.

Phenomenal Works: Laleh Khalili

“What if infrastructure is designed, financed and adopted into the habits of everyday lives of its users in such a way that it is not a harbinger of apocalypse?” In a recent essay, Laleh Khalili notes a key dilemma of infrastructure projects—in both colonial and postcolonial contexts, and even in the service of revolutionary ideals, infrastructure carries destructive environmental impacts.

Phenomenal Works: Ho-fung Hung

Ho-fung Hung investigates the role of economic development in state formation and global power, with a specific focus on China and East Asia.

Phenomenal Works: Mehrsa Baradaran

Mehrsa Baradaran is a Professor of Law at UC Irvine. Her research situates the American banking system within a dense network of legal, historical, and political relationships.

Phenomenal Works: Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth is William R. Rhodes Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University and a Faculty Fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies. His research examines how the interests of state level economic actors shape ideological consensus and institutional development at a global scale.

Phenomenal Works: Alice Evans

Alice Evans is a Lecturer in the Social Science of International Development at King's College London, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Kennedy School. She is writing a book on “The Great Gender Divergence”, which explores why European countries rapidly drew closer to gender parity over the twentieth century.

Phenomenal Works: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a political scientist who studies the mechanisms of influence. Focusing on the strategies of organized interests, including both business and labor, Hertel-Fernandez's helps illuminate crucial and poorly understood levers of American political economy.

Phenomenal Works: Beth Popp Berman

Beth Popp Berman is sociologist whose research focuses on the history of knowledge, organizations and public policy making.

Phenomenal Works: Leah Stokes

Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Santa Barbara. Her research spans representation and public opinion, voting behavior, and environmental and energy politics. ways forward in the climate crisis. Below, her selection of must-read research.