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Harvard Academy Senior Scholars

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David R. Armitage

armitage@fas.harvard.edu

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.

Luis Bosshart

lbosshart@fas.harvard.edu

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.

Emily Breza

ebreza@fas.harvard.edu

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.

Melani Cammett

mcammett@g.harvard.edu

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

Caterina Chiopris

chiopris@g.harvard.edu

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

Research interests: Historical political economy; history of science; innovation; state building; and Europe.

Timothy J. Colton

tcolton@fas.harvard.edu

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.

Melissa Dell

melissadell@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: Development economics; and political economy.

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

sarah_dryden-peterson@gse.harvard.edu

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

Grzegorz Ekiert

ekiert@fas.harvard.edu

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.

Hanna Folsz

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

PhD, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.

Research interests: Democratic erosion and its reversals; competitive authoritarianism; opposition parties and movements; economic coercion; media capture; and east-central Europe.