W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows

Alison Post was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Alison Post is the Travers Family Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair of Political Science and associate professor (and former codirector) of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California–Berkeley. Her research examines urban politics and policy and other political economy themes, including public service delivery, regulation, and business–government relations. She also collaborates with engineers, urban planners, and scholars of public health on research on infrastructure management and “smart city” technology adoption. She works principally in Latin America, and recently in India and the United States as well. Post is the author of Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and articles in the Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Governance, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, and other outlets. She has been named a Clarence Stone Scholar (an early career award) by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and has received UC Berkeley’s Carol D. Soc award for mentoring graduate students. Her doctoral dissertation won the 2009 William Anderson award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, or state or local politics. She is a former president of the Urban and Local Politics section of the American Political Science Association and current chair of the Steering Committee for the Red para el Estudio de la de Economía Política de América Latina (Repal).

Andrey Simonov was the Emma & Carroll Roush National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Andrey Simonov is Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, working on the industrial organization and political economy of digital media markets. His recent work examines in which dimensions news outlets compete for attention and how they persuade the public. Applications include persuasion of US cable news in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the role of censorship and propaganda in the online news market in Russia. His other work studies product design and competition in advertising and entertainment markets. Simonov received a PhD in quantitative marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

In Song Kim was the Susan Louise Dyer Peace National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In Song Kim is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in politics at Princeton University. His research focuses on the political economy of lobbying and campaign donations, estimation of political preferences, and causal inference with panel data. Kim conducts big-data analysis of international trade. He is developing methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate how the structure of international trade around the globe has evolved over time. His work has appeared in various academic journals, including the American Political Science Review,  American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and the Journal of Politics.

Kevin Y. Kim was the William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Kevin Y. Kim is an assistant professor of history at the University of California–Los Angeles. As a historian of the United States and the world, Kim specializes in US–Asia relations, US politics and diplomacy, and the global Cold War and decolonization. His scholarly work has appeared in Diplomatic History, Modern American History, Pacific Historical Review, and other journals. Kim has also written on public and international affairs for The Nation, South China Morning Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, and other popular publications. After receiving his PhD from Stanford University, Kim has held fellowships at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is currently completing Worlds Unseen: Herbert Hoover, Henry Wallace, and the Making of Cold War America, a book that explores US diplomacy and the global Cold War from the perspectives of Hoover's and Wallace’s quests for restraint and engagement, and the responses of US and global policy makers, citizens, and local institutions.

Peter Q. Blair was the John Stauffer National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a member of the faculty at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, where he codirects the Project on Workforce. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, affiliated with the Economics of Education Program, and the principal investigator of the Blair Economics Lab, a multi-university collaboration that focuses on supply-side issues in higher education, the effects of occupational licensing on labor market discrimination, and the link between residential segregation and educational outcomes. Four graduates of his lab are now in tenure-track roles in economics departments. In addition to his scholarly work, Blair served as a volunteer economist with the Council of Economic Advisers during the Biden–Harris presidential transition. He is an active member of his local church, where he mentors graduate students. Blair received his PhD in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his master’s in theoretical physics from Harvard, and his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Duke University. He is the youngest of seven sons and got his start understanding markets by selling fruit and vegetables with his brothers in the Nassau Straw Market in the Bahamas.