Affiliates

Hanna Alshaikh

Hanna Alshaikh

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Middle Eastern history; modern Palestine; diaspora; exile; political movements; social history of ideas; leftist history; political Islam; and transnational politics.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
James E. Alt

James E. Alt

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Comparative political economy; and interaction of voters, political parties, institutions, financial markets, and fiscal policies in industrial democracies.

1737 Cambridge Street
Room K307
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-2184
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
Clare Bradford Anderson

Clare Bradford Anderson

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Imperial history; British Empire; South and Southeast Asia; agriculture; history of science; and environmental history.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Francesco Anselmetti

Francesco Anselmetti

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Early modern and modern Middle East and Mediterranean; social history; urban and architectural history; political economy; political thought; intellectual history; and comparative and transregional history.
Pronouns: he/him

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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
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
Marco M. Avina

Marco M. Avina

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Program in Social Policy, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: American politics; Canadian politics; intergroup relations; exclusionary politics; cities; public opinion; survey methodology; and metascience.

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
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
Mitch Bacci

Mitch Bacci

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Middle Eastern history; Ottoman history; informal economies; state formation; and the social history of psychoactive substances.

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. MPA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Financial markets; monetary economics; and capital markets development.

María Ballesteros

María Ballesteros

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Internal displacement; civil war; state building; and political violence.

Mahzarin Banaji

Mahzarin R. Banaji

Faculty Associate. Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
Research interests: The human capacity for introspective access, including its limits; and dissociations between explicit and implicit social cognition in the context of group-based thoughts and feelings.
1520 William James Hall
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 384-9203