Chair

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

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

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

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

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.
Brett L. Carter

Brett L. Carter

Graduate Student Associate; Samuel P. Huntington Doctoral Dissertation Fellow.

Research Interests: Elite struggle and cooperation in the Republic of Congo.

Paul Y. Chang

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.

William James Hall 602
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-8769
William C. Clark

William C. Clark

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Science and sustainable development; social learning in international affairs; and institutions linking scientific knowledge and political action in the global environment.

79 JFK Street
P-32
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3981
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
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
Jim Dunn

Jim Dunn

William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. Associate Professor, Department of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Research Interests: Societal inequality and population health; housing and health; neighborhood social mix; and theories of health...

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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
Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests: Colonial and modern Latin America; Age of Revolutions and the Atlantic World; Indigenous peoples; empire, politics, race, and ethnicity; and transnational history from below.
Pronouns: she/her/ella

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Shelby B. Grossman

Shelby B. Grossman

Hartley R. Rogers Dissertation Completion Fellow. PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Politics of order in the informal markets in Nigeria.