Associate. Physician, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Director, Iraqi American Institute.
Research interests: Postwar Iraq's democratization, state-building, and foreign policy directions, focusing on Iraq-US relations; the intersection of medicine, politics, and international relations.
Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History and Program in Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
Research interests: Middle Eastern history; modern Palestine; diaspora; exile; political movements; social history of ideas; leftist history; political Islam; and transnational politics.
Faculty Associate (emeritus). Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Comparative political economy; and interaction of voters, political parties, institutions, financial markets, and fiscal policies in industrial democracies.
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
Research interests: Contractual frictions in international trade; global value chains, the international organization of production; and the interplay between trade, inequality, and costly redistribution.
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Interim Chair, Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
Research interests: History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.
Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University.
Research interests: Economic sociology; international political economy; legal studies; professionals and expertise; and comparative-historical methods.
Chair, Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs. Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University.
Research interests: South Asian and African languages and literatures; Islam and contemporary Muslim societies; religion, literature, and the arts in Muslim cultures; Muslim voices in contemporary world literatures; Islamic mysticism (Sufism); and Ismaili history and thought.
Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.
Research interests: International history; 1970s energy crisis; oil and commodities; Middle East; Latin America; history of capitalism; and Global Cold War.
Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Research interests: Employment precarity; tertiary education; young adulthood; imagined futures; narratives; cultural sociology; modern Spain; and comparative research.
Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidates, Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Research interests: Ancient Eurasian imperialism; steppe empires; contemporary theories of sovereignty; photography and imperialism; and modes of historical storytelling.
Graduate Student Affiliate. PhD Candidate, Department of Music, Harvard University.
Research interests: Ethnomusicology; anthropology; Angolan music; musical flows in the Lusophone world; urban studies; migration studies; and sonic ethnography.