Graduate Student Associates

Gbemisola Abiola

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

Research interests: Refugee and forced migration studies; critical terrorism studies; kinship studies; colonial history; postcolonial studies; and African political thought.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Rabiat Akande

Graduate Student Associate. SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: History of the debate over the place of religion in Nigeria's constitutional order.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138

oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu

Stefan Beljean

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

Research interests: Evaluation and performance measures; and sociology of culture and organizations.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K226, mailbox #20
Cambridge, MA 02138

sbeljean@fas.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.

jbowles@g.harvard.edu

Elena Chachko

Graduate Student Associate. SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Foreign and security policy and the law; international law; administrative law; and constitutional theory.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Aniket De

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

Research interests: South Asia since 1700; British Empire; global, spatial, political, cultural, and economic history; nationalism; history of ideas; anthropology; borders and borderlands; and religious studies.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tamer Elshayal

Graduate Student Associate; George Hoguet Fellow. PhD Candidate, Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Transnational history of urban policy making through international development and megaprojects of infrastructure.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K263
Cambridge, MA 02138

tamerelshayal@g.harvard.edu

Naima Green

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

Sam Klug

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

Research interests: Decolonization; African American history; history of development and modernization; international politics; political economy; and intellectual history.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Gabriel Koehler-Derrick

Graduate Student Associate. 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

Ekin Kurtic

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

Research interests: Infrastructure and water; environmental history; political ecology; anthropology of state and bureaucracy; and Turkey.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138

ekinkurtic@fas.harvard.edu

Charlotte Lloyd

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

Research interests: The relationship between symbolic and cultural boundaries and structural inequality within organizations and communities.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K265, mailbox #21
Cambridge, MA 02138

charlottelloyd@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4488

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