Senior Advisers and Executive Committee

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Derek Penslar

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History; Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
Research interests: Modern Jewish history; politics and society of Israel/Palestine; nationalism; anticolonial movements; and postcolonial state building.
Jocelyn Viterna

Jocelyn Viterna

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; and Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.
Research interests: Social movements; civil society; development; democratization; transnationalism; gender; sexuality; and political violence.
33 Kirkland Street
William James Hall 480
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5794
p: (617) 495-7569
Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Corruption and the rule of law; authoritarian politics; state building and state capacity; and Chinese politics.
1737 Cambridge Street
room K214
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-2750
Kirsten Weld

Kirsten Weld

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
Research interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American history; US-Latin American relations; social movements; and the politics of memory, archival access, and history writing.
1730 Cambridge Street
Room S419
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-4360