People

María Ballesteros

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Internal displacement; civil war; state building; and political violence.

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Mahzarin R. Banaji

Faculty Associate. Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.

Research interests: The human capacity for introspective access, including its limits; and dissociations between explicit and implicit social cognition in the context of group-based thoughts and feelings.

Personal website

1520 William James Hall
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

mahzarin_banaji@harvard.edu

p: (617) 384-9203

Alysha Banerji

Graduate Student Affiliate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Refugee higher education; internationalization; aims of higher education; and global civic responsibilities of universities.
Pronouns: she/her

Sarah Banse

Events Manager.

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-9006

Kathryn Baragwanath

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Research interests: Political economy of environment and natural resources; climate change politics and policy; deforestation; property rights; oil; corruption; Latin America; and Brazil.
Pronouns: she/her

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1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138

kathryn.baragwanath@acu.edu.au

p: (617) 495-3264

Jessica Barnard

Administrator, Weatherhead Research Clusters on Global History and on Migration.

1727 Cambridge Street
Room E211
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8923

Robert J. Barro

Faculty Associate. Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: The interplay between religion and political economy; and the impact of rare disasters on asset markets and macroeconomic activity.

Personal website

Littauer 218
Cambridge, MA 02138

rbarro@harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-3203

Ione Barrows

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

Research interests: Nineteenth-century North American history; protest movements; migration; political coalitions; anticolonialism; currency policy; social democracy; and cultural history.

Mary Travis Bassett

Faculty Associate. François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population;
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research interests: Advancing health equity.

Personal website

651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

mbassett@hsph.harvard.edu

Robert H. Bates

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Emeritus, Departments of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political economy of development, particularly in Africa; and violence and state failure.

Personal website

1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292

robert.bates.harvard.edu@gmail.com

p: (617) 496-0919

Julie Battilana

Faculty Associate. Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: Hybrid organizations that diverge from typical corporations and not-for-profits by combining aspects of both at their core.

Personal website

Morgan Hall 327
Soldiers Field Park
Boston, MA 02163

jbattilana@hbs.edu

p: (617) 495-6113

Matthew Baum

Faculty Associate. Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications; Professor of Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Domestic sources of foreign policy; influence of mass media and public opinion on democratic conflict behavior; and variations in democratic electoral institutions.

Personal Website

79 JFK Street
T244
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8696

matthew_baum@harvard.edu

p: 617-495-1291

Sven Beckert

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: United States history; comparative and international political economy; and global history.

Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History

Personal website

Robinson 119
Cambridge, MA 02138

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-0697

Jason Beckfield

Faculty Associate. Robert G. Stone, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Impact of European integration on economic inequality and the welfare state; the evolution of the network structure of international organizations; and the social determinants of health inequalities.

Personal Website

WJH 550
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbeckfie@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-3895