Graduate Students

Kevin Blacutt

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

Research interests: Latin American history; race and ethnicity; and the Andean World.

Shelby Carvalho

Shelby Carvalho

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Politics of education; forced displacement; international and humanitarian aid; gender; and sub-Saharan Africa

Sudarshana Chanda

Sudarshana Chanda

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

Research interests: History of race, migration, and ethnicity; histories of family and intimacy; British Empire; and South, East, and Southeast Asia.
Pronouns: she/her

Yi Ning Chang

Yi Ning Chang

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

Research interests: Political theory and the history of political thought; postcolonial theory; race and capitalism; international politics; international history; Southeast Asia; and the twentieth century.

Anna Christensen

Anna Christensen

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

Research interests: Natural history; North American colonialism; deep time; extinction; environmental history; and the history of museums.

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; political economy; history of capitalism; urban anthropology; security; Johannesburg; and southern Africa.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Cameron M. Curtin

Cameron M. Curtin

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Cultural evolution; social norms and institutions; prosocial psychology; cooperation; public goods; Indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico; and mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.

Jingyun Dai

Jingyun Dai

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

Research interests: Gender; social class; higher education; workplace inequality; intersectionality; qualitative methods; and mixed methods.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Taylor Davey

Taylor Davey

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Canadian urban governance; transnational climate change governance; policy networks; carbon accounting; techno-politics; sustainability politics; urban political ecology; and climate justice.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Aniket De

Graduate Student Affiliate. 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.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Alexandra Dennett

Alexandra Dennett

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

Research interests: Photography; nineteenth and twentieth-century central Asia; modern art and revolutionary politics; gender; travel; and representation and legacies of colonialism.

Akshay Govind Dixit

Akshay Govind Dixit

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Political economy; comparative politics; behavioral economics; redistribution; political ideology; gender; youth civic engagement; South Asia; India; and Bangladesh.

Shreya Dubey

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