Emily Erikson, Joseph C. Fox Director
Emily Erikson is the Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship and associate professor of sociology and the school of management (by courtesy). She works on the emergence and development of global networks, organizations, and the institutions of capitalism and democracy. Her award-winning book, Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company (Princeton University Press, 2014) shows how the autonomy of agents in the East India Company fostered informal information sharing and organizational flexibility that were key to the Company’s long-term success. The book illuminates the processes underpinning the emergence of early multi-national firms and the structure of early modern global trade. Her forthcoming book, The End of Equity: Companies and Politics in the Development of a New Science of Economics (Columbia University Press), identifies a crucial transformation in economic thinking in the early modern era, when moral issues took a backseat to growth imperatives. She shows that the increasing power of companies coupled with merchant’s marginal political power created the conditions that drove individual to adopt a new theoretical and moral framework for economic thought focused on national prosperity rather than individual moral behavior.
Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Sociology Theory, The Journal of Economic History, and Social Science History, among others. She serves on the council for the economic sociology section of the American Sociological Association, the editorial board for Social Science History, the editorial committee for the Relational Sociology Series. She is a founding member of the advisory board for the Journal of Historical Network Research and sits of the executive council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate.
Email: emily.erikson@yale.edu
Julia Muravnik, Assistant Director with the Fox International Fellowship
Julia Muravnik administrates the Fox International Fellowship, as well as many other awards and exchanges, in the MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale. She is the first point of call for any questions not answered by these pages and serves as a vital resource to Fox International Fellows both at Yale and abroad. Julia’s background resonates with the initial aims and partnership of the Fellowship: born in Russia during the Soviet era, Julia immigrated to the United States shortly after the millennium and has been at Yale since 2005. She speaks English, Russian, and German, and enjoys getting to know the Fellows and learning more about the cultures that they represent. Julia gives annual information sessions about the Fellowship at Yale; frequently travels to Fox exchange partners universities; and coordinates efforts to keep alumni in touch, which includes organizing reunions. She welcomes contact from prospective and former Fox International Fellows regarding these and all other matters pertaining to the Fellowship.
Email: julia.muravnik@yale.edu
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Gina Amico, Fellowship Coordinator with the Fox International Fellowship
Gina Amico is the Fellowship Coordinator at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. In this role, Gina supports the MacMillan Fellowships and exchanges, including the Fox International Fellowship. Prior to this role, Gina taught English Language Arts and History locally in Connecticut. She has served three terms with AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America), supporting education nonprofits in New York and Connecticut. She also served as a Primary Literacy Specialist with the Peace Corps in Guyana, South America. She holds a Master of Science in International Development and Service, and a Master of Business Administration. Similar to the Fox Fellowship, Gina conducted her graduate research at educational institutions in New York City, Siena, Italy, and Guayaquil, Ecuador–focusing on sustainable youth program development, volunteer management, and cultivating school-community partnerships.
Stephane D. Andrade, Postdoctoral Associate with the Fox International Fellowship
Stephane D. Andrade is a joint Ph.D. Candidate in sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. His research examines how poor and racialized people experience criminalization and legal entanglements within the context of their everyday lives. His dissertation, Contempt: Race, Fatherhood and Punishment in an American City, explores the experiences of poor and formerly incarcerated Black men as they navigate the consequences of child support debt and judicial surveillance, and concerns around their well-being. In addition, he will be mentoring Fox International Fellows, conduct a weekly seminar for the Program, advise prospective applicants, serve on the Selection Committee, and help the Fox Academic Director with designing and implementing the academic trainings for the fellows. Stephane is a former policy fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), and a junior fellow of the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale.
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