Affiliates

Alysha Banerji

Alysha Banerji

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Refugee higher education; internationalization; aims of higher education; and global civic responsibilities of universities.
Pronouns: she/her

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
Robert J. Barro

Robert J. Barro

Faculty Associate. Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: The interplay between religion and political economy; and the impact of rare disasters on asset markets and macroeconomic activity.

Littauer 218
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3203
Ione Barrows

Ione Barrows

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

Research interests: Nineteenth-century North American history; protest movements; migration; political coalitions; anticolonialism; currency policy; social democracy; and cultural history.

Mary Travis Bassett

Mary Travis Bassett

Faculty Associate. François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population;
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Research interests: Advancing health equity.
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Robert H. Bates

Robert H. Bates

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Emeritus, Departments of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political economy of development, particularly in Africa; and violence and state failure.

1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
p: (617) 496-0919
Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana

Faculty Associate. Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: Hybrid organizations that diverge from typical corporations and not-for-profits by combining aspects of both at their core. 

Morgan Hall 327
Soldiers Field Park
Boston, MA 02163
p: (617) 495-6113
Matthew Baum

Matthew Baum

Faculty Associate. Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications; Professor of Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Domestic sources of foreign policy; influence of mass media and public opinion on democratic conflict behavior; and variations in democratic electoral institutions.

79 JFK Street
T244
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8696
p: 617-495-1291
Jason Beckfield

Jason Beckfield

Faculty Associate. Robert G. Stone, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Impact of European integration on economic inequality and the welfare state; the evolution of the network structure of international organizations; and the social determinants of health inequalities.

WJH 550
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3895
Heidi Beha

Heidi Beha

Global Sports Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Team Lead Development Programs, Member Associations, FIFA

Research interests: Sports; politics and the future of human rights; and responsibility in a multipolar world.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Natalie Behrends

Natalie Behrends

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

Research interests: Global labor history; history of socialism; modern Jewish history; migration; nationalism and ethnicity; citizenship studies; histories of the global Left; and Polish and Polish diaspora history.

Saika Belal

Saika Belal

Postdoctoral Fellow, STAR Lab. PhD Candidate, Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests: Behavioral, development, and labor economics; and gender, labor markets, and decision making.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ori Ben-Shalom

Ori Ben-Shalom

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

Research interests: Early modern Europe; Italian history; history of science and medicine; environmental history; and intellectual history.