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Adam Berinsky joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Political Science. Berinsky received the BA from Wesleyan University in 1992, and the PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 2000. From 1999 to 2003, Berkinsky was an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His research focuses on the political behavior of ordinary citizens, including representation and the communication of public sentiment to political elites and the continuing power of ethnic stereotypes.
Berinsky is the author of Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Representation in America, forthcoming in 2004 from Princeton University Press. In Silent Voices, Berinsky argues that the very
process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of those preferences. Contrary to the common view, he believes surveys may echo, rather than correct, the inegalitarian shortcomings of other forms of political participation and even introduce new problems altogether.
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Assistant Professor of Economics Haluk Ergin joined the MIT faculty this fall. Ergin received the BA in Business Administration in 1996 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, the MS in Mathematics in 1999 from Bilkent University in Ankara, and the PhD in Economics in 2003 from Princeton University.
Ergin's work in economics focuses on choice theory, game theory, and mechanism design. His dissertation was based on a costly thinker model, analyzing a decision-maker who is uncertain of his tastes and preferences. The model generalizes the standard rational theory of individual decision making. In his
thesis, Ergin identified the behavioral implications of this model and showed that it is compatible with a number of observed violations of the standard rational theory.
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Michael Greenstone joined the MIT faculty this fall as an Associate Professor (with tenure) in Economics, and holds the 3M Chair in Environmental Economics. For the past three years, Greenstone has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1998 through 2000, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Greenstone received the BA with High Honors from Swarthmore College in 1991 and the PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1998.
Greenstone's research focuses on the consequences of government regulation. His primary project examines the impacts of the Clean Air Act on air quality, manufacturing activity, housing prices, and infant mortality. He is presently working on estimating the effect of mandated reductions in pollution emissions on plant-level productivity. His research is funded by the National Institute of Health,
National Science Foundation, and Environmental Protection Agency.
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy Caspar Hare joined the MIT faculty this fall. He received the BA in 1994 from Wesleyan University and the MA in philosophy in 1998 fron Stanford University. Hare expects to receive the PhD from Princeton University this spring. While studying at Princeton from 1998–2003, he was a fellow at the Center for Human Values (2001–2002) and Procter Fellow (2002–2003). He specializes in moral philosophy.
The bulk of Hare's recent work has focused on the consequentialist approach to normative ethics. The remainder has addressed connections between questions in ethics and questions in metaphysics—questions about the nature of time, about what it is to be a person, and about what it is for a person to persist over time.
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Stefan Helmreich joined the MIT faculty this fall as an Assistant Professor in Anthropology, with a specialization in the anthropology of science and technology. Helmreich received the BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989, and the MA and PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1995. Before coming to MIT he was an Assistant Professor of Science and Society at New York University (1999–2002) and a Visiting Scholar at Pitzer College (2002–2003).
Helmreich's honors include the Diana Forsythe Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association
(2001) for Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (1998), and an Individual Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (2003) for new work on the anthropology of marine biology. Helmreich is currently working on an ethnographic project involving changing scientific images of the ocean in the age of genomics, bioinformatics, and biotechnololgy. He has been doing anthropological fieldwork among marine biologists in Monterey, Hawaii, and Massachusetts, and plans to begin work on a book about this research.
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Anthony Lioi, who works in ecocriticism and Composition Studies, joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Lioi received the BA from Brown University and the MA and PhD from Rutgers University.
Lioi's dissertation, "The Nature of Enchantment: Cosmological Crisis and the American Essay, 1945–2000," analyzed contemporary American environmental literature in terms of postmodern philosophy. His interests include Anglophone nature writing, environmental philosophy, the essay as a genre, pedagogical theory, popular culture, electronic media, and ecofeminism.
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Jay Scheib joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Music and Theatre Arts. Scheib received the AB in Theater Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1996, and the MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia University in 1999. He is also an alumnus of the SoHo Rep writer/director lab in New York and is currently a guest professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
Scheib's recent projects for theater include the New York City premiere of a new translation of West Pier as part of the 2003 Koltes Festival, an original adaptation of Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia America America, dreamlife of thousandaire affluence, and two plays by Lothar Trolle at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. Scheib also recently collaborated with Harvard University's A.R.T. director Robert Woodruff in the writing of an adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard's oeuvre entitled, Godard (distant and right), which premiered at the Ohio Theater.
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Sarah Song joined the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests are in contemporary political theory, with a special interest in theories of justice and equality, group rights, feminist theory, and the history of American political thought.
Song was born in Seoul, Korea, and moved to the United States in 1980. She completed the BA in Social Studies at Harvard College, the MPhil in Politics at Oxford University, and the PhD in Political Science at Yale University. She has received the Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and the Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Song's dissertation, "Culture, Gender, and Equality," explores the theory and practice of group-differentiated citizenship. She examines how far the American state has accommodated cultural and religious differences, and considers the consequences of such accommodation on gender relations within minority cultural communities.
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