Administration

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Alisha Holland

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: The political determinants and consequences of infrastructure projects in Latin America; migration; crime control; and subnational governance.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K205
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-1899
Kathleen Hoover

Kathleen Hoover

Program Coordinator, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Executive Assistant to the Center Director.
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-9592
p: (617) 495-7502
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

Kenneth I. Juster

Advisory Committee. Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former US Ambassador to India.

Şebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

Advisory Committee. Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park.
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

Richard M. Locke

Advisory Committee. Vice President and Dean, Apple University.
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
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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.