Undergraduates

Christoph Mikulaschek

Christoph Mikulaschek

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: International security and the political economy of international organizations.
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K215
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3953
Lauren Morganbesser

Lauren Morganbesser

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modern Middle East and North Africa; national security; the Gulf; international politics; and great power competition.

Jamal Nimer

Jamal Nimer

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Department of Computer Science, Harvard College.

Research interests: Global development; climate and sustainability; urban planning; and modern Middle East and North Africa.

Garrett O'Brien

Garrett O'Brien

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: China-Africa relations; development studies; postcolonial theory; semiotics; and South-South relations.
Pronouns: he/him/his

Shane Michael Rice

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard College.
Research interests: Exploring projections of cultural heritage in post-Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Jolly Rop

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Departments of Government and of Economics, Harvard College.

Purab Seth

Undergraduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. Departments of Government and of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard College.
Elizabeth V. Silva

Elizabeth V. Silva

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: Latin American politics; race and ethnicity; migration; civic and political engagement; and Brazilian and Brazilian diaspora studies.

Madison Stein

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of History and of Global Health & Health Policy, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modern Middle East and North Africa; international history; political violence; nationalism; social movements; decolonization; and global health.

Lavinia Teodorescu

Lavinia Teodorescu

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Paramilitary organizations in Eastern Europe; Chechnya and the North Caucasus; Kadyrovtsy and Chechen battalions abroad; NATO expansion in Eastern Europe; Transnistrian politics and Moldova-Transnistria-Gagauzia relations; information security and cyber policy; emerging disruptive technologies; and virtual/augmented/mixed reality.

Ann Townes

Ann Townes

Program Assistant, Student Programs; Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K225
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-5495

Aidan Walker Walz

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of Government, Harvard College.
Research interests: Misinformation, democratic engagement, and the 2022 Italian general election.
Eleanor Villafranca Wikstrom

Eleanor Villafranca Wikstrom

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: US empire and education; global imperial history; Southeast Asian history; epistemic colonialism and colonial mentality; colonial origins of disinformation; language, race, and empire; transpacific studies; and Filipinx American studies.