Social and behavioral scientists

Elizabeth Setren

Elizabeth Setren is an American economist of education at Tufts University, a 2025 PECASE recipient whose research covers Boston charter schools, education technology, and desegregation.

Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth S. Spelke is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist who holds the Marshall L. Berkman Professorship at Harvard and is known for the core knowledge theory of infant cognition.

Ellen Langer

Ellen Langer (born 1947) is an American social psychologist, Harvard professor, and 'mother of mindfulness,' known for the 1975 illusion-of-control paper and the 1979 Counterclockwise aging study.

Ellen Markman, born 1947, is an American developmental and cognitive psychologist, the Lewis M. Terman Professor at Stanford, known for research on how young children learn words and build categories.

Else von Richthofen

Else von Richthofen, also known as Else Jaffé, was a German economist and the first academic factory inspector in Germany, and a long-time companion of Max Weber.

Emi Nakamura

Emi Nakamura is an American empirical macroeconomist at UC Berkeley who won the 2019 John Bates Clark Medal for research on price-setting and policy effects.

Emil Verner

Emil Verner is a Danish-American macro-finance economist, the Lemelson Professor at MIT Sloan, known for research on household debt, credit booms, and bank failures, with tenure in 2025.

Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist born in Épinal, founder of French sociology; author of The Division of Labor, The Rules of Sociological Method, Suicide, and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; theorist of social facts, solidarity, and anomie.

Émile P. Torres

Émile P. Torres, also known as Phil Torres, is a moral philosopher and journalist who studies existential risks and human extinction, and coined the acronym TESCREAL with Timnit Gebru.

Émile-Félix Gautier

Émile-Félix Gautier (1864–1940) was a French geographer and professor at the Université d'Alger who dominated the French geography of the Sahara in the early twentieth century.

Emilio Moran

Emilio Moran is an American ecological anthropologist known for over 30 years of land-use research in the Brazilian Amazon and for research on the social costs of large hydropower dams.

Emily Balcetis

Emily Balcetis is an American social psychologist and associate professor at New York University whose research shows that goals and desires influence what people literally see and hear.

Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist, and pacifist who shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first female economist to win a Nobel Prize.

Emily Haas

Emily J. Haas is an American behavioral scientist at NIOSH who studies safety culture in mining and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Emma Dench

Emma Dench is a Roman historian and classicist, Dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor; author of Romulus' Asylum and Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World.

Emmanuel Farhi

Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020) was a French macroeconomist at Harvard University, where he held the Robert C. Waggoner Professorship and was called the leading macroeconomist of his generation.

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah is a Ghanaian economist and Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Ghana Business School, known for research on green bonds and fintech.

Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez, born in 1972, is a French-American economist at UC Berkeley who studies taxation and inequality and won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2009.

Enrico Moretti

Enrico Moretti is an Italian American labor economist at UC Berkeley known for The New Geography of Jobs and research on why jobs cluster in some cities.

Enrique G. Mendoza

Enrique G. Mendoza is an international macroeconomist who is William P. Carey Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on sudden stops and sovereign default.

Eric Chyn

Eric Chyn is an American labor economist and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his 2018 study of Chicago public housing demolitions.

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is an American historian specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction. His 2010 book, The Fiery Trial, won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Eric Hanushek

Eric A. Hanushek is an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a leading authority on the economics of education, known for research linking student achievement to economic growth.

Eric Maskin

Eric S. Maskin, born in 1950, is an American economist at Harvard University who shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.

Eric O’Shaughnessy

Eric O'Shaughnessy is an American renewable energy researcher who spent about a decade at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory before becoming an independent consultant in 2019.

Eric Wolf

Eric Robert Wolf (1923–1999) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist who studied peasants, power, and world history, best known for his 1982 book Europe and the People Without History.

Erich Neumann (psychologist)

Erich Neumann (אריך נוימן) was a German-born Israeli psychologist who emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1934 and wrote The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother.

Erik Hurst

Erik Hurst is an American economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on time use, leisure, entrepreneurship, and household wealth.

Ernest L. Bogart

Ernest L. Bogart (1870–1958) was an American economist and economic historian who headed economics at the University of Illinois and led the American Economic Association in 1931.