Joseph joined the Center in September of 2012. He is a graduate of Suffolk University where he studied English and Classical Literature, focusing on the works of Herman Melville and Virgil.... Read more about Joseph Hollow
The Edmond J. Safra Research Lab meets weekly in a seminar to discuss various topics in institutional corruption. Written summaries of these seminars are produced by the staff. Authors include Jennifer Campbell, Joseph Hollow, Tara Skurtu, and Ivy Yan.
The first Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab seminar of the 2013-14 academic year convened on September 9, 2013, and was led by the Center's Director, Professor Lawrence Lessig. Intended as an introductory seminar, Lessig laid the framework for his conception of institutional corruption and presented to the participants of the Lab seminar several examples of its occurrence. Lessig began his presentation with a simple, yet powerful analogy of a compass deviating from...
The October 23, 2013, Lab seminar was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Professor Thomas Stratmann. Professor Stratmann is University Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University, and a faculty member at both the Center for Study of Public Choice and the interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, as well as a fellow at the Mercatus Center. During his fellowship year, Professor Stratmann will undertake an empirical study of possible insider...
The November 6, 2013, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab fellow, Dr. Jennifer Heerwig. Heerwig is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University where she serves as a faculty advisor for the University's interdisciplinary computational social science initiative. During her fellowship, Heerwig plans to write a book on the evolution of donation strategies among elite individual campaign contributors using an original, longitudinal dataset. Titled...
The November 11, 2013, Lab seminar was presented by Marie Newhouse, an Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow whose work focuses on think tank ethics and governance issues. Titled, "Think Tank Ethics and Excellence: A Framework for Analysis," Newhouse's presentation provided a comprehensive overview of her research concerning think tank practices and contemplated the significance of interpersonal and intrapersonal integrity in think tank scholarship. The primary goal of Newhouse's...
The November 2013, 2013, Lab seminar was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Jim Morris. A journalist since 1978, Morris is senior reporter and editor at the Center for Public Integrity where he is also co-leader of the environment and labor team. During his fellowship year, Morris will investigate the forces that allow American workers to be exposed to chemicals at levels that are scientifically known to be dangerous. Specifically, he will explore how persistent industry...
The February 19, 2014, Lab seminar was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Gregg Fields, and Senior Faculty Associate and Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Malcolm Salter. Titled, "Breaking the Curse: What to do about Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector," the presentation probed underlying...
The March 10, 2014, seminar presentation was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow, Dieter Zinnbauer. A Program Manager for the International Secretariat of Transparency International in Berlin, Zinnbauer works on emerging policy issues and innovation. Prior to his current assignment, Zinnbauer served as the Chief Editor of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report. During his fellowship year, Zinnbauer has focused his research on exploring possibilities to...
The May 7, 2014, Lab seminar was presented by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow and investigative journalist, Sheila Kaplan. Kaplan is currently producing a 4-part documentary series, titled: “America: COMPROMISED.” The documentary, which is scheduled to debut on PBS in the fall of 2015, will probe cases of institutional corruption as they arise in the pharmaceutical industry, academia, food corporations, and the financial sector. For the first part of the Lab seminar, Kaplan...
