Faculty Associates

Matthew Baum

Faculty Associate. Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications; Professor of Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Domestic sources of foreign policy; influence of mass media and public opinion on democratic conflict behavior; and variations in democratic electoral institutions.

Personal Website

79 JFK Street
T244
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8696

matthew_baum@harvard.edu

p: 617-495-1291

Sven Beckert

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: United States history; comparative and international political economy; and global history.

Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History

Personal website

Robinson 119
Cambridge, MA 02138

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-0697

Jason Beckfield

Faculty Associate. Robert G. Stone, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Impact of European integration on economic inequality and the welfare state; the evolution of the network structure of international organizations; and the social determinants of health inequalities.

Personal Website

WJH 550
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbeckfie@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-3895

Silvia Benedito

Faculty Associate. Design Critic, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: The role of atmosphere, weather, and sensation in the design disciplines of landscape architecture and urbanism.

Personal website

48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall 415
Cambridge, MA 02138

benedito@gsd.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-0949

Lisa Berkman

Faculty Associate. Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology; Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research interests: Examining the role of social conditions and social and economic policies in shaping patterns of population health and aging.

Personal website

9 Bow St
Cambridge MA 02138

lberkman@hsph.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8498

Anya Bernstein

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Russia, Eurasia, and North Asia; religion; transnational processes; indigeneity; body politics; secularism; sovereignty; the anthropology of death; media; materiality; and visual culture.

Personal website

Tozzer Anthropology Building 218
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

abernstein@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-4987

Jacqueline Bhabha

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population;
Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Migration and human rights; child protection; adolescent resilience and positive deviance; and stigma, discrimination, and resilience within Europe’s Roma community.

Personal website

651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor
Boston, MA 02115

jacqueline_bhabha@harvard.edu

p: (617) 432-1177

Matthew Blackwell

Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political methodology; historical political economy; American politics; and historical persistence of beliefs.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street, K305
Cambridge, MA 02138

mblackwell@gov.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-2426

Eve Blau

Faculty Associate. Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Adjunct Professor, History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Director of Research, Harvard Graduate School of Design;
Codirector, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern architecture and urbanism; postindustrial and postsocialist urban transitions; Central and Eastern Europe; and urban design and planning.

Personal website

48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

eblau@gsd.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-0170

Suzanne Blier

Faculty Associate. Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Research interests: Politics, urban planning, economics, art, and technology in the Yoruba area of early southwestern Nigeria.

Personal Website

485 Broadway
Sackler Museum
Cambridge, MA 02138

blier@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-2377

David Bloom

Faculty Associate. Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research interests: Labor, health, and population economics; and demography.

Personal Website

665 Huntington Avenue
Building 1-1110B
Boston, MA 02115

dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu

p: (617) 432-4056

Lawrence D. Bobo

Faculty Associate. Dean, Division of Social Science; W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Research interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; and social inequality.

Personal website

1370 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

bobo@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-7778

Peter K. Bol

Faculty Associate. Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning;
Founding Director, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Research interests: Intellectual, social, and cultural change in China since the seventh century.

Personal Website

2 Divinity Avenue
Room 221
Cambridge, MA 02138

pkbol@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8361

Sugata Bose

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean rim.

Personal website

1730 Cambridge Street
Room S436
Cambridge, MA 02138

sbose@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 384-7683