About ISPS

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) strives to facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry in the social sciences and research into important public policy arenas.

Recognizing that important social problems cannot be studied adequately by a single discipline, the Yale Corporation established the Institution for Social and Policy Studies in 1968 in order to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration within the university.

Faculty and students from many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Yale’s graduate and professional schools are involved in a variety of activities. These include interdisciplinary faculty seminars, research publications, postdoctoral programs, and the undergraduate major in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Through these activities, ISPS seeks to speak to important social science and policy questions, both in the United States and abroad.

Director:

Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science

Executive Committee:

Richard Breen, William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course

John Dovidio, Professor of Psychology

Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law

Benjamin Polak, William C. Brainard Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

Jody Sindelar, Professor and Head, Division of Health Policy and Administration