WRC Migration

Ahmet Akbiyik

Ahmet Akbiyik

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
Research interests: Political economy; migration; social cohesion; and social media.
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Jacqueline Bhabha

Jacqueline Bhabha

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population;
Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Migration and human rights; child protection; adolescent resilience and positive deviance; and stigma, discrimination, and resilience within Europe’s Roma community.

651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor
Boston, MA 02115
p: (617) 432-1177
Shelby Carvalho

Shelby Carvalho

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Politics of education; forced displacement; international and humanitarian aid; gender; and sub-Saharan Africa

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Director, REACH; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Comparative education; community development; education in armed conflict, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; migration; and transnationalism.
Pronouns: she/her

Gutman 457
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8142
Seokweon Jeon

Seokweon Jeon

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Religion and US global-imperial power; Asian/Latinx mobility; critical Asian-American studies; border and citizenship; religion and neoliberalism; religious-racial history of the Cold War; and religion, race, and American nativism.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Saúl Ramírez

Saúl Ramírez

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Crime and punishment; immigration; inequality and stratification; poverty; qualitative methods; race and ethnicity; social policy; and sociology of law.

Edom Tesfa

Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138