2024

Arjun Adotei Akwei

Arjun Adotei Akwei

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: National identity in foreign policy; American history; Indian postcolonial nationalism; Indo-Pacific geopolitics; contemporary China; ethnic and identity politics; economic mobility and development; human and civil rights; and American democratic politics.
Pronouns: he/him

Laura Connor

Laura Connor

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: International history; politics of international development; US foreign relations; US-Latin America relations; democracy promotion; and political regimes and parties.
Pronouns: she/her

Tessa Conrardy

Tessa Conrardy

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: Contemporary Russian politics; journalism and press freedoms; censorship and transnational information flows; authoritarianism and regime survival strategies; regime change and opposition; and post-Soviet development.

Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests: Colonial and modern Latin America; Age of Revolutions and the Atlantic World; Indigenous peoples; empire, politics, race, and ethnicity; and transnational history from below.
Pronouns: she/her/ella

1727 Cambridge Street, room E101
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-5414
Amen Gashaw

Amen Gashaw

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College.

Research interests: International development; international humanitarian NGOs; political economy of religion; foreign aid and direct investment; contemporary sub-Saharan Africa; and multilateral organizations.
Pronouns: she/her

Henry Haimo

Henry Haimo

Undergraduate Associate. Department of History, Harvard College.

Research interests: African history; colonial history; education history; history of cartography; and intellectual history.

Justin Hu

Justin Hu

Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Undergraduate Associate. Departments of History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard College.

Research interests: Caribbean studies; Francophone literature; decolonization; pedagogy; and conditions of possibility.

Logan Kelly

Logan Kelly

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Liberalism; modern western Europe; vice policy; philosophy of mind; stigma; politics of freedom; and cultural history.

Sameer Khan

Sameer Khan

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of History of Science and of Anthropology, Harvard College.

Research interests: Indian-administered Kashmir; anthropologies of the everyday; occupation, political violence, and sovereignty; trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and mental illness; anthropologies of the body; memory; space and time; and decolonization.

Dina Kobeissi

Dina Kobeissi

Undergraduate Associate. Departments of Government and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modern Middle East and North Africa; public policy; human rights; international relations; political communication and media; and Arab diaspora studies.

Hamaad Mehal

Hamaad Mehal

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.

Research interests: Intellectual history; colonial history; Islamic philosophy; religious nationalism in South Asia; and national identity in multiethnic states.

Christoph Mikulaschek

Director, Undergraduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Research interests: International security and the political economy of international organizations.
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K215
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 495-3953
Lauren Morganbesser

Lauren Morganbesser

Undergraduate Associate. Department of Government, Harvard College.

Research interests: Modern Middle East and North Africa; national security; the Gulf; international politics; and great power competition.

Jamal Nimer

Jamal Nimer

Undergraduate Associate. Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Department of Computer Science, Harvard College.

Research interests: Global development; climate and sustainability; urban planning; and modern Middle East and North Africa.