CASBS Names 40 to 2026-27 Fellows Class
Forty scholars from 22 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs, as well as five practitioners from private industry, make up the 2026-27 fellows class for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
The center, known as CASBS, was founded in 1954 with support from the Ford Foundation to offer year-long fellowships. Each year, fellows are freed from teaching and administrative obligations to pursue ambitious research, collaborate across disciplines, and advance understanding of human behavior, society, and institutions.
Members of the 2026-27 class conduct research in a variety of fields in the social and behavioral sciences and cognate disciplines, including anthropology, communication, computational social science, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, music, neuroscience and neurobiology, philosophy, political science, psychology, public health, science and technology studies, sociology, statistics and probability, and urban studies and planning.
Two members of the class have enjoyed previous CASBS fellowships, both in 2015-16: Robert Kaplan, former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and Lynda Powell, lead author of the pioneering book Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases (written during her fellowship).
“The arrival of new leadership only amplifies the excitement surrounding the arrival of a new fellows class, something that’s anticipated widely across social and behavioral science communities,” said Sally Schroeder, CASBS’s deputy director. “Given the inescapable challenges we’re witnessing today at local, national, and international levels, it’s imperative that we maintain a high bar and advance our fellowship program’s 72-year legacy of excellence. We’re confident we’ve met the moment in selecting this collection of dynamic, innovative thinkers comprising the 2026-27 fellows class.”
The 2026-27 fellows class:
Corey Abramson | Sociology, Rice University
Lewis Abedi Asante | Geography, Kumasi Technical University (STIAS-Iso Lomso in collaboration with the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa)
Ralph Richard Banks | Law, Stanford University
Inbal Ben Ami Bartal | Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University
Juliana Bidadanure | Philosophy, New York University
Graeme Blair | Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Garance Burke | Investigative Journalism, Associated Press (practitioner)
E. Summerson Carr | Anthropology, University of Chicago
John Casellas Connors | Geography, Texas A&M University
Salman Chaudry | Computer Science, Shifting Ground AI (practitioner)
Daniel Chen | Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
Lawrence Cheung | Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK-Stanford University CASBS fellow with Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Eli Cook | History, University of Haifa
Henry Cowles | Science And Technology Studies, University of Michigan
Bart Decrem | Technology & Media, Now What? Research (practitioner)
James Goldgeier | Political Science, American University
June Gruber | Psychology, University of Colorado
Brooke Harrington | Sociology, Dartmouth College
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang | Education, University of Southern California
Robert M. Kaplan | Public Health, Stanford University
Andrius Kazukauskas | Economics, Södertörn University (RJ-CASBS Fellow under a 2023 agreement with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, an independent foundation in Sweden)
Brian Knutson | Psychology, Stanford University
Kepa Korta | Philosophy, University of the Basque Country
Jamie Kreiner | History, University of California, Los Angeles
Dessislava Lange-Damianova | Journalism, Bellingcat (practitioner)
Kah-Wee Lee | Urban Studies and Planning, National University of Singapore (NUS Fellow with National University of Singapore)
Alison McQueen | Political Science, Stanford University
Luke Miratrix | Education and Statistics, Harvard University
Katharyne Mitchell | Geography, University of California, Santa Cruz
Frances Moore | Economics, University of California, Davis
Shigehiro Oishi | Psychology, University of Chicago
Lynda Powell | Medicine, Rush Medical College
Bryn Rosenfeld | Political Science, Cornell University
Frederick Singer | Media, Software, Edtech, Venture Capital, Insurance, Retired CEO (practitioner)
Heeju Sohn | Sociology, Emory University
Forrest Stuart | Sociology, Stanford University
Lana Swartz | Communication, University of Virginia
T.L. Taylor | Sociology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Milena Tsvetkova | Computational Social Science, London School of Economics
Joseph Tao-yi Wang | Economics, National Taiwan University (Stanford-Taiwan Social Science fellow with Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center within the National Applied Research Laboratories of Taiwan)
