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Brinton Ahlin

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Anthropology, New York University.

Research interests: Former Soviet Union and postsocialism; central Asia; Islam; communism; and materiality and language.

1727 Cambridge Street, E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
brintonahlin@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7957
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Rabiat Akande

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. SJD, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: History of the debate over the place of religion in Nigeria's constitutional order.

1737 Cambridge Street, room K229
Cambridge, MA 02138
oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu
Norberto Ferreras

Norberto Ferreras

Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Associate Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

Research interests: Global contemporary forms of contemporary slavery; and forced labor legislation on Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street
Room E210, Mailbox #17
Cambridge, MA 02138
nferreras@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5496
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Julian Gewirtz

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. DPhil, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; socialism and market reform; Chinese foreign policy; transnational networks; science and technology; politics of history; and poetry.

Personal website
1727 Cambridge Street, E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
julian_gewirtz@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7957
Chris Gratien

Chris Gratien

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia.

Research interests: Social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East; and ecology and migration in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
chrisgratien@gmail.com
p: (617) 495-3367
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Natalia Gutkowski

Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. PhD, Porter School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Research interests: Environmental anthropology; political anthropology; critical agrarian studies; temporality; science, technology, and society; human-nonhuman anthropology; and Israel-Palestine and Jordan.
1727 Cambridge Street, E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
ngutkowski@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5414
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Zachary M. Howlett

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale-NUS College.

Research interests: Political and historical anthropology of China; ideology of meritocracy; high-stakes examinations; mobility; urbanization; and international migration.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
zhowlett@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7957
Diana Kim

Diana Kim

Visiting Fellow, Center for History and Economics. Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Research interests: Comparative politics; vice and criminal law; nineteenth- and twentieth-century empire; and Southeast and East Asia.

1730 Cambridge Street
Room S412
Cambridge, MA 02138
yhkim11@uchicago.edu
p: (617) 495-5296
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Anne-Marie Livingstone

William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.

Research interests: Racial stratification; urban poverty; urban sociology; and political sociology.

1727 Cambridge Street, room K202
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Charlotte Lloyd

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: The relationship between symbolic and cultural boundaries and structural inequality within organizations and communities.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K265, mailbox #21
Cambridge, MA 02138
charlottelloyd@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4488
Nikhil Naik

Nikhil Naik

Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics. PhD, Media Arts and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: Computer algorithms; and harnessing online data to answer important questions in the social sciences.

1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
naik@mit.edu
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Kalyani Ramnath

Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics. PhD, Department of History, Princeton University.

Research interests: Legal history; law and empire; transnational and comparative history; south Asian history; immigration; and labor history.

Personal website
1730 Cambridge Street 
Cambridge, MA 02138 
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Talia Shiff

Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. PhD, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University.

Research interests: Frontline decision making; schemas and moral deliberation; cultural categories of worth; evaluation and categorization; institutionalization; asylum; and gender.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
talia_shiff@wcfia.harvard.edu
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David Szakonyi

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, George Washington
University; Research Fellow, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Research interests: Business-government relations, corruption, and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union.
1727 Cambridge Street
room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
davidszakonyi@gmail.com
p: (617) 495-3367
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David Y. Yang

Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center for History and Economics. PhD, Department of Economics, Stanford University; Postdoctoral Fellow, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University (as of July 2020).

Research interests: Political economy; behavioral and experimental economics; economic history; and cultural economics.

Personal website
1805 Cambridge Street 
Littauer Center M-31
Cambridge, MA 02138