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Rabiat Akande

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. SJD, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Legal history; constitutional law and theory; international law; religion-state relations; Islamic legal thought; British imperialism; slavery; and colonial and postcolonial Africa.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138

oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu

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Melani Cammett

Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Chair, Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research Interests: Comparative politics; politics of development; welfare; religion and ethnicity; conflict; and Middle East politics.

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Christopher L. Carter

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests: Comparative politics; political economy of development; indigenous politics; Latin American politics; and methods for causal inference.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

christopher.carter@berkeley.edu

Steven Caton

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Linguistics; cultural studies; gender; Yemeni poetics and politics; US men's movement; and water sustainability.

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Tozzer Anthropology Building 318
Cambridge, MA 02138
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caton@wjh.harvard.edu

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Timothy J. Colton

Chair, Canada Program Faculty Steering Committee; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Regions in a Multipolar World; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political leadership in post-Communist countries; parties and mass politics in Russia; and the interaction between domestic and international politics in the post-Soviet space.

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1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

tcolton@fas.harvard.edu

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Melissa Dell

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: Development economics; and political economy.

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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

melissadell@fas.harvard.edu

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Grzegorz Ekiert

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Department of Government; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia; and patterns of transformations in the post-Communist world.... Read more about Grzegorz Ekiert

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Sahana Ghosh

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

Research interests: Borders and borderlands; migration and mobility; militarization; modern south Asia; transnational feminism; labor and citizenship; and agrarian studies.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

sahana_ghosh@fas.harvard.edu

Tanushree Goyal

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Research interests: Comparative politics; gender; political economy of development; and South Asia.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

tanushreegoyal@g.harvard.edu

Gözde Güran

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

Research interests: Economic sociology; war; migration; money and pricing; ethnography; experiments; the Middle East; and Syria.

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1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

gguran@princeton.edu

Kathleen Hoover

Program Coordinator, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Executive Assistant to the Center Director.

1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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khoover@wcfia.harvard.edu

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Bruce V. Jackan

Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E111
Cambridge, MA 02138

bjackan@wcfia.harvard.edu

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Steven Levitsky

Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Latin American politics; parties and party systems; and democracy and democratization.

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1737 Cambridge Street, room K204
Cambridge, MA 02138
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levitsky@wcfia.harvard.edu

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Mary D. Lewis

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Department of History, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: European overseas empires and their aftermaths, eighteenth century to present; modern France; French Empire in the Caribbean, South America, and North Africa; decolonization; sovereignty and legal pluralism; and international migration and citizenship.

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