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Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean rim.

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1730 Cambridge Street
Room S436
Cambridge, MA 02138
sbose@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 384-7683
Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: The making and unmaking of colonial society; the nature of the postcolony; the late modern world viewed from the Global South; and southern Africa.

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Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
jeancomaroff@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-2519
Lori De Lucia

Lori De Lucia

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (Fall 2021).
Berenson Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Heinz Heinen Fellow, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University.

Research interests: Early modern Mediterranean; race and slavery; trans-Saharan trade; Hausaland; Borno; Sicily; mobility and forced migrations; and legacies of race in Italy.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
loridelucia@fas.harvard.edu
Alexander Geelen

Alexander Geelen

Global Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (Fall 2021). PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social History and Free University of Amsterdam.

Research interests: Global, social, and colonial history; early modern Dutch colonial empire; Ghana; Kerala; diversity; empire; and mobility regulation.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
alexandergeelen@fas.harvard.edu
Jaewoong Jeon

Jaewoong Jeon

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago.

Research interests: Korea and Taiwan; empire and colonialism; history of capitalism; social theory; and macrohistory.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
jjeon@fas.harvard.edu
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Charles S. Maier

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (emeritus). Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern European history; US-Europe relations; political economy; and world history projects.

Personal website
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 998-5404
csmaier@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 998-5404
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Stephen Ortega

Associate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). Associate Professor, Department of History, Simmons College.
Research Interests: Mediterranean and world history; the history of emotions; collective memory; and digital humanities.
Robinson Hall, L108
Cambridge, MA 02138
stephen_ortega@fas.harvard.edu
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Francesca Viano

Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH). PhD, History of Political Thought, University of Perugia.

Research interests: The origins of the United States in light of the Federalist party’s engagement with the world.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
fviano@wcfia.harvard.edu