Volume 36 | 2024-2025
JPIA welcomes its inaugural faculty advisory committee for the 36th edition of the Journal. Faculty advisors represent a wide range of academic, political, and policy expertise. In their advisory roles, they provide cursory reviews of articles that JPIA's editors intend to publish. The editorial board is thrilled to have these distinguished Princeton SPIA faculty members as collaborators for this year's JPIA articles.
Eduardo Bhatia is an attorney, advocate and expert on fiscal matters and public policy with over 25 years of experience championing government reforms and public and private coalitions to achieve fiscally responsible policy targets, economic development, quality education and renewable energy goals. He is currently a John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and served as President of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 2013-2017.
Edward Freeland has worked in the field of survey research and polling for more than 35 years. He is currently the Executive Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs where he teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars on social science research methods.
Thomas Fujiwara is an Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His research is centered on political economy, with a particular focus on development and gender in low and middle income countries. In particular, his work aims to understand how political and social institutions shape individual behavior and influence representation in both elections and the workplace.
Filiz Garip is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Her book, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration, has won three best book awards.
Elliot Mamet is a political scientist currently serving as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. His research has focused on advancing ideals of democracy and democratic equality in the U.S. Previously, Elliot served on the legislative staff of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Susan Marquis is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at Princeton’ SPIA. Marquis’s work includes influential books on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program and on rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forces. From 2008 to 2021, Marquis served as the first Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Marquis also served at the highest levels of the U.S. Navy and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzón is a John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Lecturer at Princeton SPIA, the former minister of defense of Colombia, and a two-time ambassador of Colombia to the United States. Additional previous positions include chief of staff to the president of Colombia, deputy minister of defense, and senior adviser to the executive director at the board of the World Bank.
Karthik Sastry is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. His research focuses on understanding the role of bounded rationality and social dynamics in business-cycle fluctuations and modeling how societies adapt to climate change through policy changes and technological innovation.
Guadalupe Tuñón is an Assistant Professor in Princeton's Department of Politics and School of Public and International Affairs. She studies comparative politics and political economy with a regional focus on Latin America. Her first book project investigates how religious ideas about inequality and redistribution shape the electoral and policy influence of religious actors
Nina Yancy is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant whose work investigates the relationship between geography, politics, and prejudice in the US context. Currently, Nina serves as a lecturer at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on topics related to race, place, and public policy. A political scientist by training, she is the author of How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America.