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2019

Philip Balson

Philip Balson

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. Department of History, Harvard College.
Research interests: Strategy and Credibility: How American and British Visions for Southeast Asia Evolved in Crisis and Framed Escalation in Vietnam (1961–1964). 
Michelle Valdez Borbon

Michelle Valdez Borbon

Undergraduate Associate; Julian Sobin Fellow. Department of History and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Postcolonial studies; colonial history, Latin America; race and ethnicity; human rights; Indigenous movements; and nonprofit organizations and studies.

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Paul Y. Chang

Paul Y. Chang

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Social and political change in South Korea; social movements and state repression; and demographic change and family structure.

Personal website
William James Hall 602
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
paulchang@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-8769
Sunaina Danziger

Sunaina Danziger

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Department of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modern international and diplomatic history; American foreign policy; American and British intelligence history; fascism; and the transition from World War II to the Cold War.

Mark C. Elliott

Mark C. Elliott

Faculty Associate. Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of History; Vice Provost for International Affairs;
Director, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; historical relations between China and Inner Asia; Chinese frontier history; and comparative ethnic identity and nationalism.

Personal Website
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
mark_elliott@harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-5343
Theodore J. Gilman

Theodore J. Gilman

Executive Director; Executive Committee.
Research interests: Comparative and international politics of Japan and East Asia; urban politics and revitalization; and disaster preparedness and recovery.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K233
Cambridge, MA 02138
tgilman@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-2125
Luca Istodor

Luca Istodor

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College.

Research interests: Queer studies; LGBTQ activism and rights; postcolonial studies; Caribbean studies; and nationality and national belonging.

Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont

Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies,
Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Culture, inequality, and boundaries; racism, race, and immigration; definitions of excellence in higher education; comparative sociology; and contemporary sociological theory.

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Research Publications
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K218A, Mailbox #36
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
michele_lamont@harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-5689
Isabel Lapuerta

Isabel Lapuerta

Undergraduate Associate; Frank M. Boas Fellow. Department of Anthropology and Department of Music, Harvard College.

Research interests: Ethnomusicology; tourism and specifically cultural tourism; Latin America; music as identity; and gender and race in music.

Molly Leavens

Molly Leavens

Undergraduate Associate; Rogers Family Research Fellow. Concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard College.

Research interests: Global food systems; smallholder agricultural systems; and the cacao/chocolate industry.

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Raquel Leslie

Raquel Leslie

Undergraduate Associate; Rogers Family Research Fellow. Department of East Asian Studies and Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: Sino-American relations; modern China; east Asian history; international development; historical memory; immigration; and international law.

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Michelle Liang

Michelle Liang

Undergraduate Associate; Frank M. Boas Fellow. Departments of History; Literature; and Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College.
Molly Nolan

Molly Nolan

Undergraduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Inequality and Inclusion. Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, Harvard College.
Research interests: Environmental racism, settler colonialism, and the testing fields of South Australia. 
Sierra Nota

Sierra Nota

Undergraduate Associate; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Department of History and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard College.

Research interests: Late imperial and early Soviet Russian history; cartography and borders; digital history; urban planning history; transit and railway history; Siberia; and Ukraine in the Soviet period.

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Clare Putnam

Clare Putnam

Coordinator, Student Programs and Fellowships.
1737 Cambridge Street
Room K221, Mailbox #38
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 495-8292
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-9899