2020

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.

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
Constance Bourguignon

Constance Bourguignon

Undergraduate Associate; Undergraduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College.

Research interests: Contemporary Francophone literatures and cultures; language policy; language learning; social psychology; gender inequality; and queer theory.

Lowell Brower

Director of Undergraduate Studies and a Lecturer for the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard; Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Associate, 2015–2018.
John Comaroff

John Comaroff

Faculty Associate (on administrative leave). 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.

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

Angie Cui

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

Research interests: Chinese foreign policy; US-China relations; historical memory; contemporary East Asia; modernization theory; and security studies.

Eve Driver

Eve Driver

Undergraduate Associate; Rogers Family Research Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Climate change; globalization; postcolonial studies; indigeneity; environmental humanities; environmental law; continental philosophy; and the Frankfurt School.

Mark C. Elliott

Mark C. Elliott

Faculty Associate. Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of History; Vice Provost for International Affairs;
Director, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; historical relations between China and Inner Asia; Chinese frontier history; and comparative ethnic identity and nationalism.

2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-5343
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

Julianna Kardish

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of Anthropology and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard College.
Research interests: Mapping spatial apartheid in Cape Town and tracing the grounded realities of homeless Capetonian women.
Matthew Keating

Matthew Keating

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

Research interests: International relations; asylum; LGBTQ issues; human rights law; European Union politics; migration; security studies; and norm diffusion.

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
Charles Michael

Charles Michael

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow.
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College, and Department of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Research interests: Postcolonial Asia; urbanization; urban heritage preservation; urban planning; modern China; and globalization in East Asia.

Julie Ngauv

Julie Ngauv

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

Research interests: Genocide studies; oral history and memory; social history; Southeast Asian history; and Asian diaspora studies.

Tom Osborn

Tom Osborn

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

Research interests: Global mental health; evidence-based interventions for adolescent depression and anxiety; mental health interventions in urban slums; crosscultural symptomatology and risk factors of common mental disorders; sub-Saharan African studies; and entrepreneurship and venture capital.