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Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar (on leave fall 2023). David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

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

1737 Cambridge Street, room K204
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
p: (617) 495-9997
Mary D. Lewis

Mary D. Lewis

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar (on leave 2023–2024). 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.

27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 998-5428
p: (617) 495-8509
Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). PhD, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research interests: South Asia; Pakistan; political economy; transnational trade; commodity chain; infrastructure; geosciences; and artisanship.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E106
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5362
Ellen M. Nye

Ellen M. Nye

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, Yale 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.
Pronouns: she/her/hers

1727 Cambridge Street, room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-3821
Elizabeth J. Perry

Elizabeth J. Perry

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Department of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.
Research interests: Contentious politics; the history of the Chinese revolution and its contemporary legacy; and the politics of higher education and cultural governance in China.
1727 Cambridge Street, E306
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-4536
Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero

Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). PhD, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.

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

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Awa Ambra Seck

Awa Ambra Seck

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Development economics; political economy; colonial history; migration; and Africa.
Pronouns: she/her

1727 Cambridge Street, room E104
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3264
George Soroka

George Soroka

Executive Officer, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
1727 Cambridge Street, room E111
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-4253
Diana  Van Patten

Diana Van Patten

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (fall 2023). Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Management, Yale University.
Research interests: International trade; macroeconomic development; and Latin America.
1727 Cambridge Street, room E105
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-3821
Jocelyn Viterna

Jocelyn Viterna

Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; and Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.
Research interests: Social movements; civil society; development; democratization; transnationalism; gender; sexuality; and political violence.
33 Kirkland Street
William James Hall 480
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5794
p: (617) 495-7569
Yuhua Wang

Yuhua Wang

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: Corruption and the rule of law; authoritarian politics; state building and state capacity; and Chinese politics.
1737 Cambridge Street
room K214
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 496-2750
Jamie Wong

Jamie Wong

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests: China; governance; science and technology; venture capitalism; scaling; start-up companies; Chinese internet; risk; temporality; credit and credibility; digital economy; AI; big data; and machine learning.

1727 Cambridge Street, room E108
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3367
Malika Zeghal

Malika Zeghal

Faculty Associate. Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
Research interests: Islam and politics in the modern Middle East; Islamist movements and the institutionalization of Islam in the Muslim world; and Muslim diasporas in North America and western Europe.
12 Quincy Street
Barker Center 411
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 496-5798
p: (617) 384-8432