Harvard Academy Scholars

Marco Alcocer

Marco Alcocer

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

Research interests: Criminal governance; criminal violence; organized crime; state capture; political violence; policing; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
Lydia Assouad

Lydia Assouad

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2024). Assistant Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research interests: Political economy of development; social cohesion; inequality; culture and institutions; and the Middle East.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5362
Kathryn Baragwanath

Kathryn Baragwanath

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.

Research interests: Political economy of environment and natural resources; climate change politics and policy; deforestation; property rights; oil; corruption; Latin America; and Brazil.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3264
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
Aaron Glasserman

Aaron Glasserman

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, Columbia University.

Research interests: Ethnic politics in China; religion-state relations; legal history; and Shari'a and Islamic legal thought.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3367
Joel Herrera

Joel Herrera

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests: State building; illicit markets; violence; Mexico; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-7957
Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). PhD, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research interests: South Asia; Pakistan; political economy; transnational trade; commodity chain; infrastructure; geosciences; and artisanship.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5362
Ellen M. Nye

Ellen M. Nye

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, Yale University.

Research interests: Global economic history; early modern Eurasia; transimperial history of debt, money, and capitalism; cross-cultural trade; comparative political economy; and empire formation.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1727 Cambridge Street, room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-3821
Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero

Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). PhD, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests: Labor economics; development economics; economic history; urban economics; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Awa Ambra Seck

Awa Ambra Seck

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Development economics; political economy; colonial history; migration; and Africa.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3264
Diana  Van Patten

Diana Van Patten

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Management, Yale University.
Research interests: International trade; macroeconomic development; and Latin America.
1727 Cambridge Street, room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-3821
Jamie Wong

Jamie Wong

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: China; governance; science and technology; venture capitalism; scaling; start-up companies; Chinese internet; risk; temporality; credit and credibility; digital economy; AI; big data; and machine learning.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3367