New Affiliates

Emma Friedlander

Emma Friedlander

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

Research interests: Soviet Union; Eastern Europe; cultural and social history; spirituality, religion, and secularism; and women's, gender, and sexuality studies.

James Fry

James D. Fry

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (fall 2023). Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong.
Research interests: International law; international dispute settlement; international organizations; diplomatic history; East Asia; Middle East; and Europe.
61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Chengyu Fu

Chengyu Fu

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

Research interests: Comparative politics; political economy; corruption; development; and Chinese politics.

Amen Gashaw

Amen Gashaw

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College.

Research interests: International development; international humanitarian NGOs; political economy of religion; foreign aid and direct investment; contemporary sub-Saharan Africa; and multilateral organizations.
Pronouns: she/her

Nayanika Ghosh

Nayanika Ghosh

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

Research interests: History and philosophy of biology; Cold War science; postwar biological determinism; history of science critique; science and race; and gender studies.

Swarnabh Ghosh

Swarnabh Ghosh

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candiate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Historical geographies of capitalism; geopolitical economy; political ecology; urbanization; development; infrastructure; agrarian studies; environmental history; colonial and postcolonial India; and sociospatial theory.

Matteo Giordano

Matteo Giordano

Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. PhD Candidate in History, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola Normale Superiore.

Research interests: International political economy; developmental states; global history; USSR; fascism; industrial politics; autarky; technology transfers; import substitution industrialization; interwar period; and Gramsci.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Aaron Gluck-Thaler

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

Research interests: History of surveillance, technology, and computing; historical epistemology; and media studies.

Samuel Goy

Samuel Goy

Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History (spring 2024). PhD Candidate, Department of History, UNIL Université de Lausanne.

Research interests: Economic and social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; History of Swiss and global capitalism; and history of accounting, industry, and production processes.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Henry Haimo

Henry Haimo

Undergraduate Associate. Department of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: African history; colonial history; education history; history of cartography; and intellectual history.

Raphael Halff

Raphael Halff

Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Research interests: Yiddish, Holocaust, and Russian literature; event art; and material culture.

Sujin Elisa Han

Sujin Elisa Han

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Research interests: Social and economic history; material culture of medicine; interdisciplinary research; modern Korea; and the Cold War.

Kento Hara

Kento Hara

Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Research interests: Japan-South Korea relations; Japan-US-South Korea trilateral cooperation; Indo-Pacific security; East Asian security; and North Korean issues.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Joel Herrera

Joel Herrera

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests: State building; illicit markets; violence; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
Takeshi Hieda

Takeshi Hieda

Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations. Professor of Comparative Politics, Graduate School of Law, Osaka Metropolitan University.

Research interests: Comparative politics; comparative political economy in advanced democracies; and the welfare state.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138