Social and behavioral scientists

Historian

Historian: a scholar who researches, analyzes, interprets, and writes about the past using primary and secondary sources, practiced in universities, museums, archives, and government; median US wage $76,750 (May 2025), about 3,800 jobs, typically requiring a master's degree.

Howard C. Stevenson

Howard C. Stevenson is an American clinical psychologist, the Constance Clayton Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the RECAST theory of racial stress and family-based racial literacy interventions.

Howard E. Freeman

Howard E. Freeman (1929–1992) was an American medical sociologist and health services researcher at UCLA who helped create evaluation research and documented inequities in access to medical care among insured and uninsured Americans.

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner (born 1943), Harvard developmental psychologist, proposed the theory of multiple intelligences in Frames of Mind (1983), seven then eight independent intelligences; celebrated in education, rejected by psychometric researchers as unsupported.

Howard Kunreuther

Howard Kunreuther (1938–2023) was an American decision scientist at the Wharton School and National Academy of Sciences member, known for research on decisions about low-probability, high-consequence events like earthquakes and hurricanes.

Howard Leventhal

Howard Leventhal is an American health psychologist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, and National Academy of Medicine member best known for the Common-Sense Model of illness self-regulation.

Howard S. Ellis

Howard Sylvester Ellis was an American monetary economist and Flood Professor at UC Berkeley who led the American Economic Association in 1949 and championed the Marshall Plan.

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. (1926–1991) was an American sociologist at the University of Washington, known for Social Statistics and causal inference, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Hugh Raffles

Hugh Raffles is a British anthropologist and writer at The New School in New York, known for the books In Amazonia, Insectopedia, and The Book of Unconformities.

Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Hugo F. Sonnenschein (1940–2021) was an American economist known for the Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem on aggregate demand and for serving as the 11th president of the University of Chicago.

Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) was a German-American psychologist recruited by William James to Harvard in 1892, often credited with founding applied psychology in industry, law, and medicine.

Hunt Allcott

Hunt Allcott (Hunt Volney Allcott) is an American applied microeconomist, a professor at Stanford University since 2022, known for studies of energy conservation, fake news, and soda taxes.

Hyun Song Shin

Hyun Song Shin (신현송) is a Korean economist known for research on procyclical leverage and global liquidity, who became Governor of the Bank of Korea in April 2026.

I. L. Sharfman

I. L. Sharfman, born Isaiah Leo Sharfman, was an American economist at the University of Michigan who chronicled the Interstate Commerce Commission and led the American Economic Association in 1945.

Ian Bateman

Ian Bateman is an environmental economist, professor and Co-Director of LEEP at the University of Exeter, known for the 2013 Science land-use analysis and the 2020 natural capital framework.

Ian Burton

Ian Burton (born 1935, Derby, England) is a Canadian-based geographer, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, and a founder of climate change adaptation as a field.

Ian R. MacLachlan

Ian R. MacLachlan (Ian Robertson MacLachlan) is a Canadian economic geographer, born in Montréal, best known for his 2001 book Kill and Chill on Canada's beef commodity chain.

Iftekhar Hasan

Iftekhar Hasan is a banking and financial institutions economist, University Professor and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair holder at Fordham's Gabelli School, with over 325 publications and Bank of Finland ties.

Ijeoma Opara

Ijeoma Opara is an associate professor of public health at the Yale School of Public Health who studies substance use and HIV prevention among urban youth of color.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein, also known as Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, was an American historical sociologist who developed world-systems analysis. His work argued the modern world system emerged in the sixteenth century.

Ingar Haaland

Ingar Kyrkjebø Haaland is a Norwegian behavioral economist and professor at NTNU Business School, also an adjunct professor at NHH, where he earned his PhD in 2019.

Ira Hirsh

Ira Hirsh (1922–2010) was an American psychoacoustician and a founder of modern audiology who spent his career at Washington University and the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis.

Irina Karamanos

Irina Karamanos, born 1989, is a Chilean anthropologist and political scientist who, as President Gabriel Boric's partner, reformed and closed Chile's first-lady office in 2022.

Iris de Rode

Iris de Rode, Dutch-French historian of the French role in the American Revolution, discovered over 6,000 Chastellux papers at the Château de Chastellux; her 2022 Chastellux biography won the Académie française's 2023 Prix Guizot; she is a Gibson Fellow at UVA's Karsh Institute.

Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American Yale economist: equation of exchange MV=PT, Fisher relation between real and nominal interest rates, index numbers, and the 1933 debt-deflation theory; famed for his failed 1929 'permanently high plateau' prediction.