RSF Trustee Bartels and Former RSF Visiting Scholar Tetlock Named Carnegie Fellows
RSF trustee Larry M. Bartels (Vanderbilt University) and former RSF Visiting Scholar Philip E. Tetlock (University of Pennsylvania) were recently named 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. They will join an inaugural class of 30 other scholars, journalists, and authors as part of the Carnegie Corporation’s annual fellowship program that provides support for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.
Larry Bartels is currently May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His scholarly work focuses on American democracy, including public opinion, electoral politics, public policy, and representation. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy (2008), was cited by Barack Obama on the campaign trail and appeared on the New York Times’ list of economics books of the year. Bartels is also a contributor to the RSF book Inequality and American Democracy (2007) and continues to serve on the RSF board of trustees.
Philip Tetlock is currently Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology and Management at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation (2005-2006), Tetlock studied the political implications of the ways in which people make decisions and systematically err in judgment. His work explored the decision-making of political experts, the ways in which a society’s moral boundaries limit new thinking, and how a person’s willingness to consider historical counterfactuals relates to their understanding of the past and the future.
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