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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
Chihiro Ishikawa

Chihiro Ishikawa

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

Research interests: Feminism; gender; contemporary East Asia; social media; social movements; and contemporary Japan.

chihiroishikawa@college.harvard.edu
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
Ya-Wen Lei

Ya-Wen Lei

Faculty Associate. Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political sociology; law and society; economic sociology; sociology of media and information technologies; sociology of work, labor, and labor movements; science and technology studies; development; and China studies.

Personal website
436 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
yawenlei@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5160
Phoebe Lindsay

Phoebe Lindsay

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Colonial history; decolonization; Pacific history and culture; race and ethnicity; language; modernization; and religion.

plindsay@college.harvard.edu
Andrew Mammel

Andrew Mammel

Undergraduate Associate; Undergraduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. Department of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: Native American studies; infrastructure and energy; twentieth-century United States; and Japanese language.

mammel@college.harvard.edu
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
Francesco Rolando

Francesco Rolando

Undergraduate Associate; Hartley Rogers Family Research Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College.

Research interests: Healthcare and migration in Europe; global inequalities and systems of movement; welfare and nation states; and medical anthropology.

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frolando@college.harvard.edu
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
Troy Vettese

Troy Vettese

William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of History, New York University.

Research interests: Environmental history; animal studies; economic history; and Marxism.

Personal website
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tvettese@fas.harvard.edu
Alice X. Zhang

Alice X. Zhang

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs 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: Modern China; the surveillance state; Foucauldian power discourse; panopticism; and privacy and technology.

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aeinzhang@college.harvard.edu