2016

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

John Comaroff

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Departments of African and African American Studies and Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies,
Harvard University.

Research interests: Crime, policing, and the state; democracy and difference; and postcolonial politics and law in South Africa.... Read more about John Comaroff

Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-2658

Matthew Disler

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

Research interests: Government and social movements in contemporary Brazil.

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
p: (617) 495-2125

Kirin Gupta

Undergraduate Associate; Simmons Family Research Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Committee on Degrees in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College.

Research interests: A comparative case study of the violent formation of gendered subjectivities in Guatemala and Ecuador through the lens of street art.

Alice Han

Undergraduate Associate; Undergraduate Research Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations. Department of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: How Charles de Gaulle and the French opened China for the United States.

Elsa Kania

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

Research interests: Legal aid in China as an indicator of the prospects for reform.

Herbert C. Kelman

Herbert C. Kelman

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.

Research interests: International and ethnic conflict and conflict resolution; nationalism and national identity; power and legitimacy; and the Middle East.

William James Hall 1304
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-3728
p: (617) 495-3816
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.

1737 Cambridge Street
Room K218A, Mailbox #36
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
p: (617) 495-5689

Andrew Ma

Undergraduate Associate; Julian Sobin Fellow. Department of Economics, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modelling and quantification of the effect of displaced households on host communities in Iraq.

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.

Robinson Hall 220
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-6467