Senior Advisers and Executive Committee

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Pol Antràs

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: Global value chains; the international organization of production; trade and inequality; and international political economy.

Littauer 210
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8570
p: (617) 495-1236
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David R. Armitage

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; and Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.

Robinson Hall 215
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8076
Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Development; religion and ethnicity; conflict; and Middle East politics.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1737 Cambridge Street, K213
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-9849
Dara Kay Cohen

Dara Kay Cohen

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: International relations; international security; civil war; political violence; violence during conflict; wartime sexual violence; gender and conflict; West Africa; Timor-Leste; El Salvador; and Haiti.

79 John F. Kennedy Street
Littauer 360
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7838
Christina Davis

Christina L. Davis

Director, Program on US-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate.
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Politics of international trade; foreign policy of East Asia and Japan; and geopolitics and international organizations.
1737 Cambridge Street
Knafel Building 216
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-4446
Diane E. Davis

Diane E. Davis

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Codirector, Humanity’s Urban Future, CIFAR.

Research interests: Conflict cities; the politics of insecurity; Latin America; cities of the Global South; and relationships between urban violence, informality, policing, and the rule of law.

48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall #319
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-0728
Peter A. Hall

Peter A. Hall

Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: US-Europe relations; the European community; comparative political economy; and comparative public-policy making.
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 998-5423
p: (617) 998-5423
Gordon Hanson

Gordon Hanson

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Research interests: Labor market impacts of globalization; causes and consequences of international migration; and evaluating place-based policies.
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Orelia Jonathan

Orelia Jonathan

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Executive Committee. PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: History and citizenship education; education in conflict; teacher quality; refugee studies; sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Sudan; history of higher education; and qualitative methods.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Michele Lamont

Michèle Lamont

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Culture and inequality; racism and stigma; academia and knowledge; social change and successful societies; and qualitative methods.

William James Hall 510
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
p: (617) 495-5689
Erez Manela

Erez Manela

Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: International history; evolution of international society; US foreign relations; modern Middle East; modern East Asia; and international and global health.

Robinson Hall 220
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-6467
Christoph Mikulaschek

Christoph Mikulaschek

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: International security and the political economy of international organizations.
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K215
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3953