The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is pleased to announce its 2025-26 fellows class, comprised of 33 scholars and practitioners representing 18 U.S. institutions and 12 international institutions and programs.
Members of the 2025-26 class conduct research in a variety of fields in the social and behavioral sciences and cognate disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, business, communication, economics, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, public health and nutrition, and sociology.
Four fellows are Stanford faculty: R. Lanier Anderson (philosophy), Vasiliki Fouka (political science), Daniel Ho (law), and Jeanne Tsai (psychology). Ho has held research affiliate or faculty fellow status at CASBS since the 2016-17 academic year.
Notably, three members of the class have enjoyed the privilege of previous CASBS fellowships. This includes Kenneth Dodge (1989-90, 1995-96), Batja Mesquita (2016-17), and David Stark (1995-96).
The 2025-26 class will arrive in early September. That will be about the same time as the arrival of the Center’s next director. The current director, Sarah Soule, departs in June.
“With leadership change occurring at a pivotal moment in the affairs of the country and world, it’s imperative that the Center ensures an enduring constant: its assembly of a community of superb cross-disciplinary thinkers as members of its residential fellows program. Today’s difficult societal questions and problems demand no less,” said Sally Schroeder, CASBS’s deputy director. “The 2025-26 class continues a 71-year tradition; we can’t wait to see the ways in which the fellows further advance this renowned institution’s legacy and record of excellence.”
The Center will post biographical sketches of the fellows, including descriptions of CASBS year research projects, in August. In addition, it is possible that additional fellows will join the roster in the coming months.
Several fellows are funded by some of the Center’s partner fellowship programs. The Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI) within the National Applied Research Laboratories of Taiwan (NARLabs), a federal government agency, will support one Stanford-Taiwan Social Science fellow (Denise Hsien Wu). This is the eighth year of one or more fellows at CASBS under this partnership. For the seventh consecutive year, the Chinese University of Hong Kong will support at least one CUHK-Stanford University CASBS fellow in 2025-26 (Seanon Wong). This is the sixth year the National University of Singapore will support a NUS Fellow (Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan). And the Center will welcome it first RJ-CASBS Fellow (Loretta Platts) under a 2023 agreement with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), an independent foundation in Sweden.
In addition, the Center will host its fifth STIAS-Iso Lomso fellow (Nasandratra Ravonjiarison) based on an ongoing collaboration with the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa, as well as its second VMware Women’s Leadership Lab Fellow (Ellen Ernst Kossek) in collaboration with the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab.
The Center has three other appointment designations in addition to fellows: visiting scholars (academics who are spouses/partners of fellows), research affiliates (non-Stanford scholars who lead CASBS-based research projects), and faculty fellows (Stanford faculty who lead CASBS-based research projects). The Center will finalize these appointments by late spring or summer.
The 2025-26 fellows class:
