Graduate Students

Salma Abouelhossein

Salma Abouelhossein

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candiate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Urban history; history of development planning; decolonization; infrastructure and global history of capital; urban ecology; and modern Middle East and North Africa.

Constanza Abuin

Constanza Abuin

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: International trade; supply chains; environmental and energy policy; international policy coordination; and climate change.

Ahmet Akbiyik

Ahmet Akbiyik

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
Research interests: Political economy; migration; social cohesion; and social media.
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Hanna Alshaikh

Hanna Alshaikh

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Middle Eastern history; modern Palestine; diaspora; exile; political movements; social history of ideas; leftist history; political Islam; and transnational politics.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Clare Bradford Anderson

Clare Bradford Anderson

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Imperial history; British Empire; South and Southeast Asia; agriculture; history of science; and environmental history.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Francesco Anselmetti

Francesco Anselmetti

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

Research interests: Early modern and modern Middle East and Mediterranean; social history; urban and architectural history; political economy; political thought; intellectual history; and comparative and transregional history.
Pronouns: he/him

Marco M. Avina

Marco M. Avina

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Program in Social Policy, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: American politics; Canadian politics; intergroup relations; exclusionary politics; cities; public opinion; survey methodology; and metascience.

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Elena Ayala-Hurtado

Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. 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
Mitch Bacci

Mitch Bacci

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Middle Eastern history; Ottoman history; informal economies; state formation; and the social history of psychoactive substances.

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. MPA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Financial markets; monetary economics; and capital markets development.

María Ballesteros

María Ballesteros

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

Research interests: Internal displacement; civil war; state building; and political violence.

Alysha Banerji

Alysha Banerji

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Refugee higher education; internationalization; aims of higher education; and global civic responsibilities of universities.
Pronouns: she/her

Ione Barrows

Ione Barrows

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Nineteenth-century North American history; protest movements; migration; political coalitions; anticolonialism; currency policy; social democracy; and cultural history.

Natalie Behrends

Natalie Behrends

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

Research interests: Global labor history; history of socialism; modern Jewish history; migration; nationalism and ethnicity; citizenship studies; histories of the global Left; and Polish and Polish diaspora history.

Ori Ben-Shalom

Ori Ben-Shalom

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

Research interests: Early modern Europe; Italian history; history of science and medicine; environmental history; and intellectual history.