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Senior Fellows, Research Associates, and Visitors bring expertise and new ideas to the College. The Center supports fellows and research associates under the auspices of the Public Policy Minor or through interdisciplinary collaboration, and they hold visiting appointments in a host department and teach courses.
2008-2009 FELLOWS
Ronald G. Shaiko
Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, and Research Associate Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College
Ron has been affiliated with the Center since 2005. As Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Ron Shaiko oversees the Center's curricular and research programs, including the public policy minor , the Policy Research Shop, the Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange at Keble College, the curricular aspects of the First-Year Initiative, and mutlidisciplinary research conferences.
His research interests include American and Comparative politics: interest groups and lobbying, Congress, Nonprofit organizations, democratization, and social movements. In addition to teaching a course Introduction to Public Policy Research (PBPL 45), he also teaches the gateway course for the public policy minor, entitled Introduction to Public Policy (PBPL 5), in winter term.
Ron is a graduate of Ursinus College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
2008-2009 RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Shelley L. Hurt
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Manager of the Policy Research Shop, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
Hurt received her BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and her MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from the New School for Social Research (PhD expected 2008). Her dissertation, “Science, Power, and the State: U.S. Foreign Policy, Intellectual Property Law, and the Origins of Agricultural Biotechnology, 1969-1994” analyzed extensive archival material to demonstrate that the origins of the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization emerged in the late 1960s as a consequence of the biological revolution. Hurt's scholarship aims to bring the study of science and technology policy back into the center of political science debates. Hurt's research was awarded the 2007 Carl Beck Award from the International Studies Association and she has presented her research at the U.S. Department of State. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the New School for Social Research. Before coming to Dartmouth College, she taught Political Science at Vassar College as a Visiting Instructor for two years.
Starting in September 2008, Shelley will manage the Policy Research Shop, along with Parama Chaudhury, and will teach one course for the public policy minor: International Law and Transnational Policymaking (PBPL 82.5) in the spring term.
Parama Chaudhury
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Manager, Policy Research Shop
Professor Parama Chaudhury is a labor economist who teaches courses on introductory economics, international trade, women and the economy, and the economics of education. She received her Ph. D. from New York University, and has been at Dartmouth since Fall 2003. During the 2006-07 academic year, Professor Chaudhury taught introductory economics and labor economics at Yale. Her research interests include the effects of new technology on workers' wages and the role of work experience and education in developing workplace skills. Professor Chaudhury grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in eastern India, and got her early education there and in Delhi, India.
She will manage the Policy Research Shop this year, along with Shelley Hurt, and teach a course for the public policy minor, entitled Economics of Education Policy (PBPL 81.8), in the spring term.
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