Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been named a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow to the Segal Center for Academic Pluralism.
The fellows’ research while at the Segal Center will span topics of facilitating constructive disagreement via AI tools and affect regulation, how faculty understand intellectual freedom, how politics intersects with academic operations, applications of institutional neutrality policies to academic societies, and ameliorating distrust in higher education.
Strambler is director of child wellbeing and education research at The Consultation Center within the Division of Prevention and Community Research in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. His research focuses on psychosocial well-being, particularly social and emotional learning, early childhood care and learning, and the sociopolitics of health and education.
During his time at the Segal Center, he will investigate the extent to which professional scholarly associations in the social sciences have taken public stances on contested social and political issues, and explore whether something like institutional neutrality is a better policy for professional scholarly associations to adopt.
Based in New York City, the Segal Center is home to academics who produce and disseminate scholarship to improve discourse within higher education.