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Marino Auffant

Marino Auffant

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. 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
Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

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

Research interests: Employment precarity; tertiary education; young adulthood; imagined futures; narratives; cultural sociology; modern Spain; and comparative research.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Angie M. Bautista-Chavez

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

Research interests: Domestic and international politics of immigration regulation and control.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K219
Cambridge, MA 02138
abautistachavez@fas.harvard.edu
Carleigh Beriont

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
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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
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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.

brignac@g.harvard.edu
Paul T. Clarke

Paul T. Clarke

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

Research interests: Crime and policing; sovereignty and authority; masculinity; political economy; urban anthropology; security and surveillance technology; Johannesburg; and southern Africa.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Jenna Cook

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
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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.

rduan@g.harvard.edu
Bibi-Zuhra Faizi

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
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Nina Gheihman

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Research interests: Lifestyle movements; food; veganism; status; and nascent industries.
Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138
ninagheihman@fas.harvard.edu
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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
Gustave Lester

Gustave Lester

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

Research interests: History of earth and environmental sciences; history of capitalism; nineteenth-century US empire; settler colonialism; and environmental and mining history.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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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