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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.

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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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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.

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

Research interests: Governance; corruption; political economy of development; public goods provision; sub-Saharan Africa; and state building.

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Varun K
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

Research interests: Labor markets; environment; economic history; inequality; and medieval and modern India.

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

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Zora Piskačová
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Research interests: Modern central Europe; political, economic, and transnational history; postimperial transitions; local governance; and postconflict resolution.

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

Research interests: Comparative politics; authoritarianism; media; political communication; propaganda; censorship; persuasion; regime support; public opinion; international development; social and behavior change; field experiments; meta-analysis; sub...

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Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2025).
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

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Livio Silva-Muller
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
PhD in Sociology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The Geneva Graduate Institute.

Research interests: Decarbonization and redistribution in global and comparative perspectives, with an emphasis on Latin America.

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

Research interests: Social stratification; family demography; gender; higher education; and contemporary Japan and East Asia.

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

Research interests: Energy transition; green capitalism; waste to energy; sugarcane; plantations; Brazil; feminist science and technology studies (STS); energy humanities; and environmental anthropology.

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