Yael Berda

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Israel.

Research interests: Bureaucracy, race, and law in colonial and postcolonial contexts, in particular, institutional legacies of partition and regime change in the former British Empire.... Read more about Yael Berda

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Cambridge, MA 02138

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Xenia A. Cherkaev

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

Research interests: Anthropology of centrally planned economies, totalitarian ideology, and ethics; history of post-Soviet economic reform; and Russia, Leningrad.

1727 Cambridge Street
room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138

xenia.cherkaev@gmail.com

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Arunabh Ghosh

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; socioeconomic history; history of science; statistics; dams; and China-India history.

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Cambridge, MA 02138

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution.

Research interests: Politics of democracy and dictatorship; authoritarianism; security studies; and East Asia.

1727 Cambridge Street
Room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138

greitenss@missouri.edu

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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
room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138

ngutkowski@fas.harvard.edu

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Adam E. Leeds

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University.

Research interests: Soviet socialism and postsocialism; history of economic thought; science studies; the state, modernity, and utopianism; and liberalisms.

1727 Cambridge Street
room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138

a.e.leeds@gmail.com

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Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests: Development economics; political economy; conflict; taxation; and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1727 Cambridge Street
room E113
Cambridge, MA 02138

rsanchezdelasierra@fas.harvard.edu

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Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico.

Research interests: State formation; historical political development; origins of state capacity; politics of inequality; and Latin America.

1727 Cambridge Street
room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138

ms2728@cornell.edu

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Rachel Sweet

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

Research interests: Politics of armed conflict; conflict resolution; state building; processes of institutional change; fragile states; and Africa.

1727 Cambridge Street
room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138

rachel.s.sweet@gmail.com

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David Szakonyi

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, George Washington
University; Research Fellow, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Research interests: Business-government relations, corruption, and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union.