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David R. Armitage
Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.

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Lydia Assouad
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2026).
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

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Luis Bosshart
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research interests: Political economy; development; institutional change; and Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Germany.

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Emily Breza
Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: Development economics, with a focus on financial markets, labor markets, and social networks.

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Melani Cammett
Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar (on leave 2025–2026).
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Conflict; religion and ethnicity; development; and Middle East politics.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

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Timothy J. Colton
Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Faculty Associate.
Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political change in Russia and Eurasia; conflict and security dilemmas in the region; and comparative regionalism, with special emphasis on the subjective component.

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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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Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Director, REACH; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Comparative education; community development; education in armed conflict, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; migration; and transnationalism.

Pronouns: she/her

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Grzegorz Ekiert
Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Department of Government; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian 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.

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Rema Hanna
Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Development and environmental economics; and discrimination influences in public-service provisions and education.

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Nicholas Harkness
Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University.

Research interests: Language, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; and South Korea.

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Zahra Hayat
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.

Research interests: Intellectual property; medical anthropology; law; pharmaceutical political economies; and South Asia.

Pronouns: she/her

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