Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) — The Hoover Institution is proud to announce its 2024‒25 class of the W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows.
The early career scholars joining the Hoover Institution this year bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience and will also benefit from significant mentorship opportunities with the rest of Hoover’s fellowship.
A highly competitive program, the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship was established in its current form in 1997. It’s an annual resident program whereby the Hoover Institution selects a diverse group of scholars representing a wide breadth of disciplines from prominent centers of academia across the nation. National Fellows take a pause from their customary professional responsibilities to come to Hoover, where they undertake unrestricted, rigorous, and creative research. They are expected to develop a publishable manuscript during their one-year period of study in residence at Hoover.
Six scholars from around the world have joined Hoover as National Fellows this academic year:
Alexander Zentefis is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He studies the structures of institutions, from organizations to markets. His research on organizations includes articles on corporate culture, gerrymandering, and the theory of the firm.
Hoyt Bleakley is an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Michigan. He was previously a senior investigator at the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Bleakley works on health, human capital, intergenerational mobility, and regional economics.
Melina Platas is an associate professor of political science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on political accountability, the politics of service delivery, and the role of identity and culture in shaping economic and political outcomes, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Michael De Groot is an assistant professor of international studies at Indiana University Bloomington, where he is also faculty affiliate at the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute and Institute for European Studies. De Groot’s research focuses on US and Russian foreign relations and economic statecraft along with the international history of the 20th century.
Tara Slough is an assistant professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. She works in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and political methodology. Slough studies bureaucratic institutions in low- and middle-income democracies with an emphasis on bureaucratic service provision and administrative data production.
Yue Hou is an associate professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include political economy, authoritarian politics, and identity politics, with a regional focus on China.
Prominent senior members of the Hoover fellowship also spent time as National Fellows, including current Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice (1985‒86); Kleinheinz Fellow Stephen Kotkin (2010‒11); Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow John Cogan (1979-1980); and Distinguished Visiting Fellow Michael D. Bordo.
Applications to join Hoover for the 2025 academic year end in November. More information can be found here.
