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Brinton Ahlin

Brinton Ahlin

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

Research interests: Former Soviet Union and postsocialism; central Asia; Islam; communism; and materiality and language.

1727 Cambridge Street, E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
brintonahlin@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7957
Sunil Amrith

Sunil Amrith

Director, Center for History and Economics; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Chair, Department of South Asian Studies, 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.

Personal website
1 Bow Street, 3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
amrith@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5697
Melani Cammett

Melani Cammett

Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; 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; political economy of development; religion and ethnicity; governance and welfare by public, private, and non-state actors; and Middle East politics.

Personal Website
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1737 Cambridge Street, K213
Cambridge, MA 02138
mcammett@g.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9849
Steven Caton

Steven Caton

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave fall 2018); 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.

Personal Website
William James Hall 320
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-8355
caton@wjh.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-1886
Timothy J. Colton

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.

Personal website
1737 Cambridge Street, K156
Cambridge, MA 02138
tcolton@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4345
Grzegorz Ekiert

Grzegorz Ekiert

Faculty Associate (on leave spring 2019); 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
Personal website
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 998-5420
ekiert@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 998-5420
Cristina Florea

Cristina Florea

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Albany.
Research interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century central and eastern Europe; Germany; Soviet Union/Eurasia; Habsburg monarchy and successor states; empires/imperial history; transnational, global, and comparative history; cultural and intellectual history; urban history; borderlands and frontiers; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and movement, migration, and displacement.... Read more about Cristina Florea
1727 Cambridge Street, room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138
cflorea@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-3821
Julian Gewirtz

Julian Gewirtz

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. DPhil, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; socialism and market reform; Chinese foreign policy; transnational networks; science and technology; politics of history; and poetry.

Personal website
1727 Cambridge Street, E113
Cambridge, MA 02138
julian_gewirtz@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7957
Sahana Ghosh

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.

Personal website
1727 Cambridge Street, E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
sahana_ghosh@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5414
Natalia Gutkowski

Natalia Gutkowski

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Porter School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Research interests: Environmental anthropology; political anthropology; critical agrarian studies; temporality; science, technology, and society; human-nonhuman anthropology; and Israel-Palestine and Jordan.
1727 Cambridge Street, E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
ngutkowski@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5414
Kathleen Hoover

Kathleen Hoover

Program Coordinator, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Executive Assistant to Professor Michèle Lamont.
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-9592
khoover@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-7502
Daniel Koss

Daniel Koss

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Research interests: Political parties such as the Chinese Communist Party and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party; and modern political history of east Asia.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
koss@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5362
Noora Lori

Noora Lori

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2019). Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

Research interests: Citizenship, refugees, and statelessness in the Gulf, Indian Ocean, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA); labor migration; and time and national boundaries.

Nathan Nunn

Nathan Nunn

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: International trade; economic development; and economic history.

Personal Website
1805 Cambridge Street
Littauer Center M-29
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8570
nnunn@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-4958