New Affiliates

Daisaku Higashi

Daisaku Higashi

Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations. Professor, Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia Institute of International Relations, Sophia University.

Research interests: How the US, Japan, and UN can cooperate for addressing global challenges, such as armed conflicts, global warming, and pandemics.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Justin Hu

Justin Hu

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Undergraduate Associate. Departments of History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard College.

Research interests: Caribbean studies; Francophone literature; decolonization; pedagogy; and conditions of possibility.

Jacky Yu Qi Huang

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and of Sociology, Harvard College.
Research interests: US-China tech trade policy and the impact on Chinese EV and AI chips.
Johan Hvenmark

Johan Hvenmark

Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center. Associate Professor, Department of Religion and Civil Society, Center for Civil Society Research, Marie Cederschiöld University, Stockholm.

Research interests: Nonprofit governance and management; marketization and managerialism in civil society; civic engagement and volunteering; gender in nonprofit organizations; civil society and crisis management; social entrepreneurship; and nonprofit management education.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mohammad Tarikul Islam

Mohammad Tarikul Islam

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2024). Professor, Department of Government and Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Research interests: Local government; human security; sustainable development; diplomacy; and Bangladesh studies.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Asei Ito

Asei Ito

Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations. Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

Research interests: China's industrial development; Asia's economic integration and challenges; outward foreign direct investment (FDI); and digitalization of emerging economies.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Satoshi Ito

Satoshi Ito

Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Former Cochair and COO, Aoyama Shachu Corporation.

Research interests: Foreign and security policy in East Asia.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Aleksander Iwanicki

Aleksander Iwanicki

Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program (fall 2023). Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland.

Research interests: Modern diplomacy, Middle East and North Africa, Confidence-building measures and conflict resolution, US foreign policy, multilateralism and globalisation.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Manisha Jha

Manisha Jha

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

Research interests: International development; industrial policy; political economy of reforms; clean energy transition; public finance; macroeconomics; and global supply chains.

Bulelani  Jili

Bulelani Jili

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Information communication technologies development; Africa-China relations; cybersecurity; world-systems theory; postcolonial thought; and privacy law.
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1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Damir Kapidžić

Damir Kapidžić

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo.

Research interests: Democracy and authoritarianism; Eastern Europe; Southeast Asia; institutional politics; ethnic conflict; power sharing; democratic innovations; deliberative processes; and citizens' assemblies.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Logan Kelly

Logan Kelly

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Liberalism; modern western Europe; vice policy; philosophy of mind; stigma; politics of freedom; and cultural history.

Sameer Khan

Sameer Khan

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of History of Science and of Anthropology, Harvard College.

Research interests: Indian-administered Kashmir; anthropologies of the everyday; occupation, political violence, and sovereignty; trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and mental illness; anthropologies of the body; memory; space and time; and decolonization.

Jemma Kim

Jemma Kim

Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations. Professor, School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University.

Research interests: Asia-Pacific political economy; economic security; East Asian regional integration; global governance; export control; trade dispute; and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138