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Arjun Adotei Akwei

Arjun Adotei Akwei

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: National identity in foreign policy; American history; Indian postcolonial nationalism; Indo-Pacific geopolitics; contemporary China; ethnic and identity politics; economic mobility and development; human and civil rights; and American democratic politics.
Pronouns: he/him

Neil Alacha

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: The construction of “human rights” in Jordan by interactions between local and international actors.

Adam Viktor Aleksic

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and Linguistics, Harvard College.
Research interests: Effects of language policy in Serbia and Croatia on linguistic identity. 

Hanna Amanuel

Undergraduate Associate; Rogers Family Research Fellow. Department of Anthropology, Harvard College.

Research interests: Female genital cutting and women’s rights agendas in Eritrea.

Sunil Amrith

Sunil Amrith

Director, Center for History and Economics; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

Research interests: Transregional movement of people, ideas, and institutions; history of public health and poverty; the history of migration; environmental history; and South and Southeast Asia.

1 Bow Street, 3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-5697
Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Department of Government, Harvard College.
Research interests: The bureaucratization of global terrorist organizations.

Asad L. Asad

Graduate Student Associate; Graduate Student Dissertation Writing Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Crime, law, and deviance; culture; inequality; international migration; political sociology; public policy; and urban sociology.

1737 Cambridge Street
room K219
Cambridge, MA 02138
Philip Balson

Philip Balson

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of History, Harvard College.
Research interests: Strategy and Credibility: How American and British Visions for Southeast Asia Evolved in Crisis and Framed Escalation in Vietnam (1961–1964). 

Marco Basile

Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University; JD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: The relationship between American law and international and foreign law, 1700 to the present.

1737 Cambridge Street
Room K222, mailbox #46
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-2960
Jason Beckfield

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.

WJH 550
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3895
Isabel Bernhard

Isabel Bernhard

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Democratic transitions and consolidation; civil-military relations; national security policy; and Argentine and Brazilian politics.

Amalia Bersin

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: The securitization of HIV/AIDS and the implications for East Africa.

Colette Bishogo

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard College.

Research Interests: Postconflict resolution in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Romnick Ligon Blanco

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and History, Harvard College.
Research interests: Sino-Philippine diplomatic relations and political and ideological challenges in the turbulent postwar era (1946–1986). 

Bart Bonikowski

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism. Associate 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.

William James Hall 636
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5794
p: (617) 496-5029