The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2015–2016 academic year:
Sunil Amrith, Director, Center for History and Economics; Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. Transregional movement of people, ideas, and institutions; history of public health and poverty; the history of migration; environmental history; and South and Southeast Asia.
Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Institutions for managing rapid urbanization; comparative land-use planning and property rights; and social justice and the city.
Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Migration and human rights; child protection; adolescent resilience and positive deviance; and stigma, discrimination, and resilience within Europe’s Roma community.
Genevieve Clutario, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. Cultural and social history of imperialism and Asia, with an emphasis on the Philippines and United States and Spanish empires; transnational approaches to gender, race, and colonialism particularly in relation to Filipino histories; Asian immigration and diasporas; US empire; comparative colonialisms; and material and visual cultures.
Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Poverty and inequality; public policy; race and ethnicity; the global affordable housing crisis; urbanization and city life; and ethnography.
Rafael Di Tella, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government and the International Economy, Harvard Business School. Corruption; crime; happiness; political economy; welfare state; and oil and energy.
Gareth Doherty, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Senior Research Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Landscape architecture; ecological urbanism; design anthropology; and epistemologies of design.
Jeremy S. Friedman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School. Soviet and Russian history; modern Chinese history; Cold War; economic and political development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; decolonization; international relations; modern intellectual history; history of Marxism; political movements and ideologies; and revolutionary movements.
Peter L. Galison, Pellegrino University Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. The intersection between film and science; the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of twentieth century physics—experimentation, instrumentation, and theory; and the powerful cross-currents between science and other fields.
Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. Twentieth-century China; history of science, in particular statistics and dam-building); Sino-Indian history; and digital humanities.
Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. US foreign policy; US politics; Cold War; Vietnam War; and international history.
Ingrid T. Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment, Departments of Music and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. The improvisational process through the lens of social history.
Ryan Raffaelli, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. How innovations transform industries and institutions; organizational reinvention; and leading change.
Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School. Contemporary international history; and eastern Asian region.
Bruce Western, Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Political and comparative sociology; stratification and inequality; and methodology.