Nicolas Guilhot joined the SSRC in August 2007 as a research fellow. He is involved in developing the SSRC program on Knowledge Institutions . His current research focuses on the history of international relations theory, and on the role of philanthropy in the development of the social sciences. His publications include The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order (Columbia University Press 2005) and Financiers, Philanthropes: Sociologie de Wall Street (Raisons d’Agir 2004).