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.

jbowles@g.harvard.edu

Nina Gheihman

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

Research interests: Comparative study of veganism as a social and cultural practice in the United States, France, and Israel; culture; status; food; and comparative sociology.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138

ninagheihman@fas.harvard.edu

Naima Green-Riley

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

Rui Hua

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Gabriel Koehler-Derrick

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

Research interests: Comparative politics; state building; economic development; Middle East and North Africa; Europe; and colonialism.

Personal Website

koehlerderrick@g.harvard.edu

Aseem Mahajan

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

Research interests: International environmental politics, specifically political tradeoffs and complementarities between adaptation, mitigation, and geoengineering.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138

mahajan@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

Abigail Niebuhr

Graduate Student Affiliate. 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.

abigailniebuhr@g.harvard.edu

Shannon Lynn Parker

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

Research interests: Chinese politics; privacy; surveillance; political attitudes and behavior; and technology and governance.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Clare Putnam

Coordinator, Student Programs and Fellowships.

1737 Cambridge Street
Room K221
Cambridge, MA 02138

cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-9899

Matthew Reichert

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

Research interests: Post-revolutionary and Stalin-era Soviet history; state formation; authoritarian governance; nationalities politics; historical legacies; democratization and reversal; and civil conflict.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K222
Cambridge, MA 02138

mreichert@g.harvard.edu

Carolina Silva-Portero

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Comparative analysis on how ethnic and racial differences have been negotiated in the constitutional transformations of Ecuador and Bolivia.

csilvaportero@sjd.law.harvard.edu