Postdoctoral Fellows

Marco Alcocer

Marco Alcocer

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

Research interests: Criminal governance; criminal violence; organized crime; state capture; political violence; policing; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
Kenya Amano

Kenya Amano

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Washington.

Research interests: Democracy; economic development; monetary and fiscal policy; banking regulations; financial crises; central banks; and Japan.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lydia Assouad

Lydia Assouad

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2024). Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research interests: Political economy of development; social cohesion; inequality; culture and institutions; and the Middle East.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5362
Zaib un Nisa  Aziz

Zaib un Nisa Aziz

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Research interests: British Empire; South Asia, decolonization, labor and internationalism.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Kathryn Baragwanath

Kathryn Baragwanath

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Research interests: Political economy of environment and natural resources; climate change politics and policy; deforestation; property rights; oil; corruption; Latin America; and Brazil.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3264
Saika Belal

Saika Belal

Postdoctoral Fellow, STAR Lab. PhD Candidate, Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests: Behavioral, development, and labor economics; and gender, labor markets, and decision making.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Paige Bollen

Paige Bollen

Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: Urban politics; built environment; contact theory; political psychology; race and ethnicity; and sub-Saharan Africa.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Matthew Brummer

Matthew Brummer

Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations. Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

Research interests: International relations and technological innovation; science and technology policy; databases; and Japanese defense and foreign policy.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Judith Ellen Brunton

Judith Ellen Brunton

William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Research interests: Oil; religion; ethnography of contemporary spirituality; extraction; ongoing and legacies of colonialism; ecology; land; technology; infrastructure; ruins; and the North American West.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Anirvan Chowdhury

Anirvan Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California Berkeley.

Research interests: Comparative politics; political economy of development; religion; gender; political parties; and South Asia.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Asmaa Elgamal

Asmaa Elgamal

Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: Development planning; militarism and securitization; colonial history; politics of knowledge production; conflict and peace building; environmental history; historical ethnography; and politics of Middle East and North Africa.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Omri Elmaleh

Omri Elmaleh

Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of History, Tel Aviv University.

Research interests: Modern Middle East; Latin American studies; ethnicity and diaspora; transnationalism, migration, return migration, and identity; and border studies.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests: Colonial and modern Latin America; Age of Revolutions and the Atlantic World; Indigenous peoples; empire, politics, race, and ethnicity; and transnational history from below.
Pronouns: she/her/ella

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Aaron Glasserman

Aaron Glasserman

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, Columbia University.

Research interests: Ethnic politics in China; religion-state relations; legal history; and Shari'a and Islamic legal thought.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3367
Joel Herrera

Joel Herrera

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests: State building; illicit markets; violence; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957