2019–2020 Graduate Student Associates
The Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program is one of the Center's oldest and most valued programs. Directed by Erez Manela, professor of history and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate, the program welcomes applicants from any of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. The Center currently supports twenty-four doctoral candidates from advanced degree programs that include African and African American studies, anthropology, architecture and urban planning, the classics, government, history, history of science, law, public policy, religion, and sociology. Thank you to this year's GSAs for all your hard work and dedication!
2020 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following Undergraduate Associates who were awarded 2020 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work.
Constance Bourguignon, "‘No Way to Speak of Myself’: Lived and Literary Resistance to Gender in French."
Angie Cui, "“Diplomas for Diplomacy: Foreign Students in China and the Soft Power Question."
Matthew Keating, "From Lesvos to Leipzig: Comparative Legal Frameworks and Obstacles for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers in the European Union."
Adele Woodmansee, "‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’: Subsistence Agriculture and Ideas of Locality and Contamination in San Miguel del Valle, Oaxaca."
Undergraduate Associates 2020–2021
The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the 2020–2021 academic year and have received grants to support research and travel in connection with their senior thesis projects on international affairs. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many students will begin their thesis research this summer and delay their travel for the time being.
Miriam Alphonsus (History), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The Un-Making of a People: Repatriation of Ceylonese Up-Country Tamils to India.
Clara Bates (Social Studies; Russian Studies), Simmons Family Research Fellow. Roots of the Soviet Indictment of US Racism.
Regan Brady (Economics; European History, Politics, and Societies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. How Will Welfare States Respond to COVID-19? A Case Study of the United Kingdom and Denmark.
Kyra Colbert (Government), Canada Program Fellow. Challenging the Civic Nation in the Settler-Colonial Context.
Frances Hisgen (History; Comparative Literature), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. How Chinese educational institutions and American women’s colleges enabled Chinese women to migrate to the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Chihiro Ishikawa (Sociology; East Asian Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Mobilizing Social Movements in East Asia: A Comparison of Feminist NGOs in Japan and Korea.
Johannes Lang (Government; Economics), Hartley Rogers Family Research Fellow. Choosing Compromise over Conflict: Ennahda and the Success of Tunisian Democracy.
Andrew Mammel (History), Canada Program Fellow. The Columbia River Treaty and The Libby Dam: Transnational and Tribal Perspectives.
Reshini Premaratne (Social Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The Revolution in Lebanon: Is It a Turning Point for a Post-Sectarian Society?
Heide Rogers (Government; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The role and effectiveness of the Lebanese diaspora community in aiding the social uprisings in Lebanon since the twenty-first century.
Francesco Rolando (Social Studies; Molecular and Cellular BIology), Hartley Rogers Family Research Fellow. Healthcare as a Border: Migrants’ Access to and Exclusion from Healthcare Services in Turin, Italy.
Madeline Shue (Social Studies; Energy and Environment), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. How have medical surveillance and racialized disease rhetoric impacted immigration policy and the surveillance of immigrants crossing over US borders?
Ajay Singh (Social Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Multiculturalism, Blackness, and South Asian Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Britain.
Raphaëlle Soffe (Social Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Varieties of Austerity: The Public Response and Government Breakdown in the United Kingdom.
Kenneth Taylor Whitsell (Government; European History, Politics, and Societies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. What explains cross-temporal variation in domestic prosecutions of international crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Alice Zhang (Social Studies; Computer Science), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Normative and Ethnographic Support for Freedom of Expression in Greater China.
Jingyao (Lux) Zhao (Mathematics; History), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The Foundational Crisis: The Formalization of Mathematical Systems in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Yuke Zheng (Computer Science), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Tourism in the Age of COVID-19: How Can Tourism-Dependent Cities Adapt to the Shutdown of the Global Tourism Industry?
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2019–2020 Graduate Student Associates have their final Friday lunch of the academic year via Zoom. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin