The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

Marco Alcocer

Marco Alcocer

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

Research interests: Criminal governance; criminal violence; organized crime; state capture; political violence; policing; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
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David R. Armitage

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; and Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.

Robinson Hall 215
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8076
Lydia Assouad

Lydia Assouad

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2024). Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research interests: Political economy of development; social cohesion; inequality; culture and institutions; and the Middle East.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5362
Kathryn Baragwanath

Kathryn Baragwanath

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Research interests: Political economy of environment and natural resources; climate change politics and policy; deforestation; property rights; oil; corruption; Latin America; and Brazil.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3264
Anya Bernstein

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.

Tozzer Anthropology Building 218
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-4987
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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Timothy J. Colton

Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Faculty Associate. Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political change in Russia and Eurasia; conflict and security dilemmas in the region; and comparative regionalism, with special emphasis on the subjective component.

1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-4345
Melissa Dell

Melissa Dell

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: Development economics; and political economy.

Littauer Center M-24
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 384-7272
Grzegorz Ekiert

Grzegorz Ekiert

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia; and patterns of transformations in the post-Communist world.
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8509
p: (617) 998-5420
Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests: Colonial and modern Latin America; Age of Revolutions and the Atlantic World; Indigenous peoples; empire, politics, race, and ethnicity; and transnational history from below.
Pronouns: she/her/ella

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Aaron Glasserman

Aaron Glasserman

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, Columbia University.

Research interests: Ethnic politics in China; religion-state relations; legal history; and Shari'a and Islamic legal thought.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3367
Nicholas Harkness

Nicholas Harkness

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar (on leave spring 2024). Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University.

Research interests: Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; and South Korea.

Tozzer Anthropology Building, Rm 308
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3807
Joel Herrera

Joel Herrera

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests: State building; illicit markets; violence; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
Kathleen Hoover

Kathleen Hoover

Program Coordinator, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Executive Assistant to the Center Director.
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-9592
p: (617) 495-7502
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Eliana La Ferrara

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Research interests: Development economics and political economics, particularly on the role of social factors in economic development.
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138