STPP Postdoctoral Fellows

Joy Rohde  (The  Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 

	Phone:734-615-6943 Office: Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Room 4207 735 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
	E-mail: joyrohde at umich edu

Joy's research integrates the study of science policy with American political, diplomatic, and intellectual history. Her current areas of interest include: the role of think tanks in the creation of national security policy; the role of values, politics and public participation in science policy; social science and the War on Terror; and the history of U.S. social science in the Cold War. She is currently writing a book entitled The Social Scientists' War: Knowledge, Statecraft, and Democracy in the Era of Containment. At the Ford School, Joy will teach courses on science, technology, and public policy. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held research fellowships from the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

Leah Nichols  (The  Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2011)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 

          

	Phone:734-615-6943 Office: Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Room 4211 735 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
	E-mail: lgnichol at umich edu

Leah's research examines the social mechanisms that direct and shape science.   She focuses on how non-academic actors (e.g. government and industry) shape the research agendas of academic biologists.  At the Ford School, she will teach innovation policy and bioscience policy.  She received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.  She was also recently a Christine Mirzayan Science Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences. 

Past Postdoctoral Fellows

Last Update: September 2008