Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) - The Hoover Institution is pleased to welcome its 2022–23 class of the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program.
The diverse group of scholars represents a wide breadth of disciplines from prominent centers of academia and public policy across the nation. They take a pause from their customary professional responsibilities in order to come to Hoover, where they undertake unrestricted, rigorous, and creative research.
The fellowship offers unique resources, including access to the more than one million volumes and six thousand collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, a premier center of primary-source documentation for more than a century of political, economic, and social change. The program also enables national fellows to engage with resident Hoover scholars and draw on their cutting-edge research and practical experience at the top levels of national policy making. In previous years, national fellows have included Condoleezza Rice, John F. Cogan, and Daniel Kessler. All are now senior fellows at the Hoover Institution.
The national fellows’ participation begins on September 1, 2022, and ends August 31, 2023. All national fellows will be required to complete a significant research project and publishable manuscript while in residence at the Hoover Institution. They are also expected to engage in the intellectual life at Hoover and deliver a presentation about their research to an appropriate group of resident fellows.
Each year, Hoover senior fellows and Stanford University scholars nominate a group of national fellows for selection by the director of the Hoover Institution. The 2022–23 class features six distinguished individuals:
Alison E. Post
National Fellow
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 focused on infrastructure management and “smart city” technology adoption. 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 scholarly publications. Post received a BA in history from Stanford University, an MSc in urban and regional planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA and PhD in government from Harvard University.
Andrey Simonov
National Fellow
Andrey Simonov is the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where his research interests lie in the industrial organization and political economy of digital media markets. His recent work examines the dimensions in which news outlets compete for attention and how they persuade the public. Topics of his research include the persuasive effect of US cable news on compliance with recommendations provided by public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of censorship and propaganda in Russia’s online news market. Simonov’s other work focuses on product design and competition in advertising and entertainment markets. Simonov received a BSc in economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University; an MSc in econometrics and mathematical economics and another MSc in business and marketing from Tilburg University (Netherlands); and a PhD in quantitative marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
In Song Kim
National Fellow
In Song Kim is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the political economy of lobbying and campaign donations, estimation of political preferences, and causal inference with panel data. Kim also 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. Kim received a BA in political science from Yonsei University (South Korea); a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University; an MA in political science from the George Washington University; and a PhD in politics from Princeton University.
Kevin Y. Kim
National Fellow
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 academic journals. 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. Kim received a BA in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, and an MA and PhD in history from Stanford University.
Peter Q. Blair
National Fellow
Peter Blair 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. In addition to his scholarly work, Blair served as a volunteer economist with the Council of Economic Advisers during the Biden–Harris presidential transition. Blair received a BA in physics and mathematics from Duke University, an AM in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and a PhD in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sean Westwood
National Fellow
Sean Westwood is an associate professor in the department of government at Dartmouth College. He studies political behavior and public opinion, examining how partisanship and information from political elites affect the behavior of citizens. His work focuses on understanding where partisan biases originate, where they manifest (inside and outside political domains), and their bounds. He is coauthor of The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability (Princeton University Press, 2014). His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Vox, Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, Newsweek, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, USA Today, National Public Radio, ABC, CBS, CNN, and other outlets. Westwood received a BA from the University of Nevada, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA and PhD from Stanford University.
For more information on the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program, contact fellows program administrator Kathy Campitelli at kathy.campitelli@stanford.edu, (650) 725-8557.
