Faculty Associates

Vincent Brown

Vincent Brown

Faculty Associate (on leave 2023–2024). Charles Warren Professor of American History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Sources, circuits, and aftereffects of the African slave revolt in the Atlantic world.

1730 Cambridge Street
Room S430
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Faculty Associate. Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Codirector, Program in Law and History, Department of History; Professor of History, Harvard University; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School.

Research Interests: Constitutional law; constitutional and social history; civil rights movements in the Atlantic world; immigration and social mobility; comparative education law and policy.

1575 Massachusetts Avenue
Hauser 310
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 384-5982
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Rosie Bsheer

Faculty Associate. Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
Research interests: Arab intellectual and social movements; petro-capitalism and state formation; and the production of historical knowledge and commemorative spaces.
38 Kirkland Street
room 210
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-495-2817
Matthew Bunn

Matthew Bunn

Faculty Associate. James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation control measures; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies.

1 Brattle Square
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-9916
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R. Nicholas Burns

Faculty Associate (on leave). Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Diplomacy; international politics; international power structure; US foreign policy; nuclear weapons and the Middle East; Europe; transatlantic relations; negotiations; alliances; multilateralism; US-China relations; and great power competition.

79 JFK Street
Mailbox #54
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-3255
Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Development; religion and ethnicity; conflict; and Middle East politics.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1737 Cambridge Street, K213
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-9849
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Daniel Carpenter

Faculty Associate. Chair; Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: The political economy of government regulation and health; and petitioning in North American political development, examining comparisons and connections to petitioning histories in Europe and India.
1737 Cambridge Street, room K405
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8280
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Bruno Carvalho

Faculty Associate. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies; Codirector, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative;
Interim Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
Research interests: Urban studies; history of urbanization in the Atlantic World; environmental studies; architecture and planning; Latin American studies; and Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures.
Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Steven Caton

Steven Caton

Faculty Associate. Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Linguistics; cultural studies; gender; Yemeni poetics and politics; US men's movement; and water sustainability.

Tozzer Anthropology Building 318
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-8355
p: (617) 495-1886
Sidney Chalhoub

Sidney Chalhoub

Faculty Associate. Chair, Department of History; David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Research interests: The social history of Brazil in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the history of slavery, race, public health, and the literature of Machado de Assis.
Robinson Hall
35 Quincy Street, office 212
Cambridge MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3551
Amitabh Chandra

Amitabh Chandra

Faculty Associate. Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: Technology and expenditure growth in health care; the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care; the measurement of elderly well-being in India; and the links between antibiotic resistance and provider quality for slum dwellers.

79 JFK Street
L114
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-7356
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Paul Y. Chang

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

Research interests: Social and political change in South Korea; social movements and state repression; and demographic change and family structure.

William James Hall 602
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8769
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Stephen Chaudoin

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

Research interests: International institutions and cooperation, with an emphasis on the WTO and ICC.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K422
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Erica Chenoweth

Faculty Associate. Academic Dean for Faculty Engagement; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Kennedy School; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study;
Faculty Dean, Pforzheimer House, Harvard College.
Research interests: Political violence; nonviolent resistance; social movements; contentious politics; terrorism; counterterrorism; and democracy and democratization. 
Pronouns: they/them
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-1150
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Mina Cikara

Faculty Associate. Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
Research interests: The psychology of identity, partisanship, and intergroup conflict; coalition dynamics; and prejudice and discrimination.
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3819