Graduate Student Associates

Marino Auffant

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

Research interests: International history; 1970s energy crisis; oil and commodities; Middle East; Latin America; history of capitalism; and Global Cold War.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

mauffant@g.harvard.edu

Pablo Balan

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

Research interests: Political economy of development; state capacity; social norms; kinship systems; Africa; and Latin America.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

pbalan@g.harvard.edu

Carleigh Beriont

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

Research interests: American religious history; religion and politics; US empire; Pacific/Oceania; mission studies; religion, ethnicity, and race; nuclear testing; and decolonization.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

cberiont@g.harvard.edu

Jeremy Bowles

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

Research interests: Political economy of development; African politics; state building; development economics; technology and development; and applied statistics.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbowles@g.harvard.edu

Kelly Brignac

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

Research interests: Second abolition of slavery in the French Empire; labor relations; and immigration.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

brignac@g.harvard.edu

Kaitlyn Chriswell

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

Research interests: Political violence; criminal organizations; civil wars; Latin America; security policy; and nonstate actors.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

chriswell@g.harvard.edu

Jenna Cook

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

Research interests: Gender and family; China; social change; cultural sociology; and sociology of the law.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jenna_cook@g.harvard.edu

Ian Copeland

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

Research interests: Ethnomusicology of sub-Saharan Africa; sociocultural anthropology; international development; humanitarianism; postcolonialism; and music, sound, and aesthetics.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

ianrichardcopeland@gmail.com

Ruodi Duan

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

Research interests: Cold War diplomacy; US foreign relations; modern China; and Asian American and Pacific history.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

rduan@g.harvard.edu

Bibi-Zuhra Faizi

Graduate Student Associate. EdD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: International education policy; community-based/nonformal education; education in Afghanistan; and ethnography of education.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

bif481@mail.harvard.edu

Naima Green-Riley

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

Research interests: US and Chinese foreign policy; public diplomacy; trust in international relations; public opinion; and political psychology.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

ngreen@g.harvard.edu

Jordan Howell

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

Research interests: History of capitalism; history of technology; race and imperialism; US empire; labor history; African diaspora and Caribbean history; and Caribbean political economy.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

j_howell@g.harvard.edu

Abigail Katz

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

Research interests: Migration and religion; transnational and diaspora religious networks; Christianity in southern Africa; and kinship and belonging.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

abigailniebuhr@g.harvard.edu

Erez Manela

Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. 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.

Personal Website

Robinson Hall 220
Cambridge, MA 02138

manela@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-6467