New Affiliates

Salma Abouelhossein

Salma Abouelhossein

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candiate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Urban history; history of development planning; decolonization; infrastructure and global history of capital; urban ecology; and modern Middle East and North Africa.

Constanza Abuin

Constanza Abuin

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

Research interests: International trade; supply chains; environmental and energy policy; international policy coordination; and climate change.

Mansoor Afzali

Mansoor Afzali

Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (fall 2023). Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, Hanken School of Economics.

Research interests: Empirical archival research in accounting, financial reporting, corporate culture, and social norms.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Arjun Adotei Akwei

Arjun Adotei Akwei

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: National identity in foreign policy; American history; Indian postcolonial nationalism; Indo-Pacific geopolitics; contemporary China; ethnic and identity politics; economic mobility and development; human and civil rights; and American democratic politics.
Pronouns: he/him

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
Mustapha Alhassan

Mustapha Alhassan

Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Programme Manager, Global Conflict Response and Prevention, Neem Foundation.

Research interests: Indigenous knowledge systems and peace building; alternative pathways to ending fragility; and violence and conflict in Nigeria.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenya Amano

Kenya Amano

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Washington.

Research interests: Democracy; economic development; monetary and fiscal policy; banking regulations; financial crises; central banks; and Japan.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Clare Bradford Anderson

Clare Bradford Anderson

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Imperial history; British Empire; South and Southeast Asia; agriculture; history of science; and environmental history.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Francesco Anselmetti

Francesco Anselmetti

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Early modern and modern Middle East and Mediterranean; social history; urban and architectural history; political economy; political thought; intellectual history; and comparative and transregional history.
Pronouns: he/him

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
Marco M. Avina

Marco M. Avina

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Program in Social Policy, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: American politics; Canadian politics; intergroup relations; exclusionary politics; cities; public opinion; survey methodology; and metascience.

Zaib un Nisa  Aziz

Zaib un Nisa Aziz

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Research interests: British Empire; South Asia, decolonization, labor and internationalism.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mitch Bacci

Mitch Bacci

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Middle Eastern history; Ottoman history; informal economies; state formation; and the social history of psychoactive substances.

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Ariyasuren Baldansenge

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. MPA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Financial markets; monetary economics; and capital markets development.

María Ballesteros

María Ballesteros

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Internal displacement; civil war; state building; and political violence.