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Bart Bonikowski

Bart Bonikowski

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant 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
Research Publications
William James Hall 636
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5794
bonikowski@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5029
Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Development; religion and ethnicity; conflict; and Middle East politics.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

Personal Website
1737 Cambridge Street, K213
Cambridge, MA 02138
mcammett@g.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9849

Paul Y. Chang

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Social and political change in South Korea; social movements and state repression; and demographic change and family structure.

Personal website
William James Hall 602
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
paulchang@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-8769
Theodore J. Gilman

Theodore J. Gilman

Executive Director; Executive Committee.
Research interests: Comparative and international politics of Japan and East Asia; urban politics and revitalization; and disaster preparedness and recovery.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K233
Cambridge, MA 02138
tgilman@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-2125
Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont

Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies,
Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Culture, inequality, and boundaries; racism, race, and immigration; definitions of excellence in higher education; comparative sociology; and contemporary sociological theory.

Personal Website
Research Publications
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K218A, Mailbox #36
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
michele_lamont@harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5689
Erez Manela

Erez Manela

Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: International history; evolution of international society; US foreign relations; modern Middle East; modern East Asia; and international and global health.

Personal Website
Robinson Hall 220
Cambridge, MA 02138
manela@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-6467
Christoph Mikulaschek

Christoph Mikulaschek

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: International security and the political economy of international organizations.
Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K215
Cambridge, MA 02138
mikulaschek@gov.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-3953

Christoph Mikulaschek

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: International security and the political economy of international organizations.
Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K215
Cambridge, MA 02138
mikulaschek@gov.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-3953
Clare Putnam

Clare Putnam

Coordinator, Student Programs and Fellowships.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K221, Mailbox #38
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9899
Beth A. Simmons

Beth A. Simmons

Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; JWE Faculty Committee. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research Interests: International relations; international political economy; international law; and international human rights law...

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Ann Townes

Ann Townes

Program Assistant, Student Programs; Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K225
Cambridge, MA 02138
atownes@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5495
Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Corruption and the rule of law; authoritarian politics; state building and state capacity; and Chinese politics.
Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street
room K214
Cambridge, MA 02138
yuhuawang@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-2750