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Rawi E. Abdelal

Faculty Associate. Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: International political economy; nationalism and foreign economic policy; international relations among post-Soviet states; globalization; capital flows; and international organization.

Personal website
Morgan Hall 287
Boston, MA 02163
rabdelal@hbs.edu
p: (617) 495-7853
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Gbemisola Abiola

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

Research interests: Critical terrorism studies; anthropologies of political violence; forced migration and displacement studies; women and gender studies; and studies on postconflict reconstruction.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
gabiola@g.harvard.edu
Daniel Agbiboa

Daniel E. Agbiboa

Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Insurgency and political violence in Africa; informal economy, nonstate governance, and urban change; mobility and immobility; and youth politics.

Personal website
Barker Center, 2nd floor
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
danielagbiboa@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4113
Ahmet Akbiyik

Ahmet Akbiyik

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
Research interests: Political economy; migration; social cohesion; and social media.
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Faculty Associate. Oppenheimer Faculty Director, Harvard University Center for African Studies; Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies,
Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: West African history; Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; comparative slavery; social history of alcohol; ecology; social history; and cultural history.

Personal website
1730 Cambridge Street
Room 433
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-3425
akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-3684
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Eram Alam

Faculty Associate (on leave 2022–2023). Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
Research interests: The history of science and medicine in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on transnational movements and migrations.
1 Oxford Street, room 361
Cambridge, MA 02138
ealam@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 384-8103
Laura Alfaro

Laura Alfaro

Faculty Associate. Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: Capital markets; economics; foreign direct investment; globalization; and international finance.

Personal website
Morgan Hall 263
Boston, MA 02163
lalfaro@hbs.edu
p: (617) 495-7981
William P. Alford

William P. Alford

Faculty Associate. Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD), Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Chinese legal affairs; US-East Asian relations; international trade; and the legal profession.

Personal website
Pound 428
Cambridge, MA 02138
alford@law.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4693
Graham T. Allison, Jr.

Graham T. Allison, Jr.

Faculty Associate. Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests:  United States foreign policy; preventing “loose nukes” in Russia; promoting democratization and marketization in Russia; and US-Russian-European relations.

Personal Website
79 JFK Street
L346
Cambridge, MA 02138
graham_allison@harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-6099
Muhamed H. Almaliky

Dr. Muhamed H. Almaliky

Associate. Physician, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Director, Iraqi American Institute.

Research interests: Postwar Iraq's democratization, state-building, and foreign policy directions, focusing on Iraq-US relations; the intersection of medicine, politics, and international relations.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
malmaliky@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4920
Hanna Alshaikh

Hanna Alshaikh

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. 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
halshaikh@g.harvard.edu
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.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K307
Cambridge, MA 02138
james_alt@harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-2184
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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.

Personal website
Littauer 210
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8570
pantras@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-1236
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Yasuhiro Arai

Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Economics, Kochi University.
Research interests: The economics of patent pledges and intellectual property rights.
61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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David R. Armitage

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2022–2023); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.

Personal Website
Robinson Hall 215
Cambridge, MA 02138
armitage@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-8076