Kerice Doten-Snitker is a social scientist and Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington and previously held positions at the Carlos III – Juan March Institute and Chapman University. Across her work, she pursues three lines of inquiry: how interests and values are institutionalized, what catalyzes institutional change, and how this change happens. She is currently working on a book about how medieval German cities responded to political challenges with antisemitic violence and exclusion.

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Ron Hassner is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the faculty director of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.  He is editor-in-chief of the journal Security Studies and editor of the Cornell University Press book series “Religion and Conflict.” Prof. Hassner studies the role of ideas, practices, and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence.

Jonathan Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and why various American legal regimes, including equal protection doctrine, function to reinforce and reproduce racial hierarchy. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Utah Law Review, and Temple Law Review. Representative publications include “SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus,”“Hidden in Plain Sight: a More Compelling Case for Diversity,”“Eyes Wide Open: What Social Science Can Tell Us About the Supreme Court’s Use of Social Science” (with Evelyn Carter), and “Defusing Implicit Bias” (with Karen Lorang). Jonathan also hosts #RaceClass, a monthly conversation that explores how race and racism remain powerful forces in American society