Graduate Students

Gangsim Eom

Gangsim Eom

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

Research interests: Semiotics; intercultural communication; company towns; alterity; ethnicity; Korean wave; home; migration; urban studies; and spatial analysis.

Emma Friedlander

Emma Friedlander

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

Research interests: Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; cultural and social history; spirituality, religion, and secularism; and women's, gender, and sexuality studies.

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Daniel Frim

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Indigenous languages and oral literatures of North America's northwest coast; comparative religion; and comparative study of oral and oral-derived literatures.

Chengyu Fu

Chengyu Fu

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

Research interests: Comparative politics; political economy; corruption; development; and Chinese politics.

Nayanika Ghosh

Nayanika Ghosh

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

Research interests: History and philosophy of biology; Cold War science; postwar biological determinism; history of science critique; science and race; and gender studies.

Swarnabh Ghosh

Swarnabh Ghosh

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candiate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Historical geographies of capitalism; geopolitical economy; political ecology; urbanization; development; infrastructure; agrarian studies; environmental history; colonial and postcolonial India; and sociospatial theory.

Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Aaron Gluck-Thaler

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

Research interests: History of surveillance, technology, and computing; historical epistemology; and media studies.

Raphael Halff

Raphael Halff

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Research interests: Yiddish, Holocaust, and Russian literature; event art; and material culture.

Sujin Elisa Han

Sujin Elisa Han

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Research interests: Social and economic history; material culture of medicine; interdisciplinary research; modern Korea; and the Cold War.

Kelsey Hanson Woodruff

Kelsey Hanson Woodruff

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Contemporary evangelicalism; women and gender; social media; religion and politics; and transregional and transnational religious networks.

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Molly Hickey

Molly Hickey

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

Research interests: Modern Middle East and North Africa; foreign aid; labor policy; political economy of development; authoritarianism; social contract; and welfare provision.

Katherine Irajpanah

Katherine Irajpanah

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

Research interests: International security; US foreign policy; armed conflict; and international law.

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Seokweon Jeon

Seokweon Jeon

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Religion and US global-imperial power; Asian/Latinx mobility; critical Asian-American studies; border and citizenship; religion and neoliberalism; religious-racial history of the Cold War; and religion, race, and American nativism.

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Manisha Jha

Manisha Jha

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

Research interests: International development; industrial policy; political economy of reforms; clean energy transition; public finance; macroeconomics; and global supply chains.

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Bulelani Jili

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

Research interests: Information communication technologies development; Africa-China relations; cybersecurity; world-systems theory; postcolonial thought; and privacy law.
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