New 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
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.

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
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.

Kevin Blacutt

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

Research interests: Latin American history; race and ethnicity; and the Andean World.

Paige Bollen

Paige Bollen

Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: Urban politics; built environment; contact theory; political psychology; race and ethnicity; and sub-Saharan Africa.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Benjamin Brendel

Benjamin Brendel

Associate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Assistant to Professor Eckart Conze, Department of Modern History, Philipps University of Marburg.

Research interests: Global, transatlantic, and cultural history; history of capitalism and politics; history of health and toxic hazards, and food and nutrition; and history of critical infrastructure.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Matthew Brummer

Matthew Brummer

Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations. Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

Research interests: International relations and technological innovation; science and technology policy; databases; and Japanese defense and foreign policy.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
César Castillo-García

César Castillo-García

Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History (spring 2024). PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.

Research interests: Income and wealth inequality; political economy; neoliberalism; Latin American economic history; twentieth-century Peru; history of economic thought; precarious and informal labor; and capitalism studies.
Pronouns: him/his

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fabricio Chagas-Bastos

Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

Research interests: Political psychology in international relations; public opinion and foreign policy; security studies; Latin American politics; and the Global South.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Sudarshana Chanda

Sudarshana Chanda

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

Research interests: History of race, migration, and ethnicity; histories of family and intimacy; British Empire; and South, East, and Southeast Asia.
Pronouns: she/her

Jay Hong Chew

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Departments of Economics and of Government, Harvard College.
Research interests: The diplomacy of small states in East Africa.
Anirvan Chowdhury

Anirvan Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California Berkeley.

Research interests: Comparative politics; political economy of development; religion; gender; political parties; and South Asia.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138