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Jessica Barnard

Jessica Barnard

Administrator, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) and Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy.
1727 Cambridge Street
Room E211
Cambridge, MA 02138
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-8923
baysan-ceren

Ceren Baysan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. Assistant Professor (as of July 2019), Department of Economics, University of Essex.

Research interests: Illiberal democracies; voter polarization; intergroup violence; integration and discrimination of refugees; and rural labor markets in developing countries.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, room K207
Cambridge, MA 02138
cbaysan@wcfia.harvard.edu
Bonikowski

Bart Bonikowski

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate (on leave 2018–2019); Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Nationalism; populism; political discourse; symbolic aspects of political institutions; and computational and relational methods in cultural and political sociology.

Personal Website
Recent publications
William James Hall 636
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5794
bonikowski@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5029
chryssogelos-angelos

Angelos Chryssogelos

Berggruen-Weatherhead Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy.
Teaching Fellow, International Relations and Politics, Department of European and International Studies, King's College London; Associate Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House.

Research interests: Party politics and populism in an international context; European politics; foreign policy in Europe; EU politics; Greek politics; and foreign policy.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, room K207
Cambridge, MA 02138
achryssogelos@wcfia.harvard.edu
kurer-thomas

Thomas Kurer

Berggruen-Weatherhead Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Research interests: Comparative political economy; labor markets; occupational change; political sociology; voting behavior; and populism.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, room K207
Cambridge, MA 02138
tkurer@wcfia.harvard.edu
Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Research interests: Latin American politics; parties and party systems; and democracy and democratization.

Personal Website
1737 Cambridge Street, room K204
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
levitsky@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9997
Daniel Ziblatt

Daniel Ziblatt

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Democratization; comparative European politics; state-building; federalism; and decentralization.
Personal Website
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-0438
dziblatt@g.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4303 x216