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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

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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.

neilalacha@college.harvard.edu

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.

hamanuel@college.harvard.edu
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.
sanderson01@college.harvard.edu
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). 
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.

bernhard@college.harvard.edu

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.

abersin@college.harvard.edu

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.

cbishogo@college.harvard.edu

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). 
Tzofiya Bookstein

Tzofiya Bookstein

Undergraduate Associate; Herbert C. Kelman Peace Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Nationalism; language; human rights; modern Middle East and North Africa; civil society; and conflict resolution.

Michelle Valdez Borbon

Michelle Valdez Borbon

Undergraduate Associate; Julian Sobin Fellow. Department of History and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Postcolonial studies; colonial history, Latin America; race and ethnicity; human rights; Indigenous movements; and nonprofit organizations and studies.

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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.

cbourguignon@college.harvard.edu

Puanani Brown

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of Environmental Science and Department of Government, Harvard College.
Research interests: food sovereignty and traditional agriculture in the context of the global food system in Hawai'i.
phbrown@college.harvard.edu
Cengiz Cemaloglu

Cengiz Cemaloglu

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

Research interests: Economic anthropology; business sociology; and phenomenology.

ccemaloglu@college.harvard.edu