Graduate Student Associates

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Employment precarity; tertiary education; young adulthood; imagined futures; narratives; cultural sociology; modern Spain; and comparative research.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Paul T. Clarke

Paul T. Clarke

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Crime and policing; political economy; history of capitalism; urban anthropology; security; Johannesburg; and southern Africa.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Jingyun Dai

Jingyun Dai

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Gender; social class; higher education; workplace inequality; intersectionality; qualitative methods; and mixed methods.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Taylor Davey

Taylor Davey

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Canadian urban governance; transnational climate change governance; policy networks; carbon accounting; techno-politics; sustainability politics; urban political ecology; and climate justice.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff

Kelsey Hanson Woodruff

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Contemporary evangelicalism; women and gender; social media; religion and politics; and transregional and transnational religious networks.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Katherine Irajpanah

Katherine Irajpanah

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: International security; US foreign policy; armed conflict; and international law.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Seokweon Jeon

Seokweon Jeon

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Religion and US global-imperial power; Asian/Latinx mobility; critical Asian-American studies; border and citizenship; religion and neoliberalism; religious-racial history of the Cold War; and religion, race, and American nativism.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Bulelani  Jili

Bulelani Jili

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Information communication technologies development; Africa-China relations; cybersecurity; world-systems theory; postcolonial thought; and privacy law.
Pronouns: he/him/his

1737 Cambridge Street
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
Andrew Byrne Keefe

Andrew Byrne Keefe

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. JD/PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Program in Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Colonial history; criminal justice and criminal law; early modern Ireland; empire; political sociology; and racism.

Sergio Leos

Sergio Leos

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Colonial Latin American history; Spanish Empire; global history; migration; information and communication networks; and the history of books and media.

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
Nathaniel Moses

Nathaniel Moses

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Environmental history; social history; modern Middle East; Ottoman history; Iraq; and history of science, technology, capitalism, and religion.
Pronouns: he/him

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Veronica Peterson

Veronica Peterson

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Foodways; Chinese diaspora; migration and mobility; community formation and care; identities, race, and ethnicity; and historical archaeology.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138