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    Anya Bernstein

    Anya Bernstein

    Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
    Tozzer Anthropology Building 218 21 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Russia, Eurasia, and North Asia; religion; transnational processes; indigeneity; body politics; secularism; sovereignty; the anthropology of death; media; materiality; and visual culture.

    Suzanne Blier

    Suzanne Blier

    Faculty Associate. Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
    485 Broadway Sackler Museum Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Politics, urban planning, economics, art, and technology in the Yoruba area of early southwestern Nigeria.

    David Bloom

    David Bloom

    Faculty Associate. Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
    665 Huntington Avenue Building 1-1110B Boston, MA 02115
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    Research interests: Labor, health, and population economics; and demography.

    Peter K. Bol

    Peter K. Bol

    Faculty Associate. Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning;
    Founding Director, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.
    2 Divinity Avenue Room 221 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Intellectual, social, and cultural change in China since the seventh century.

    Sugata Bose

    Sugata Bose

    Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.
    1730 Cambridge Street Room S436 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: History of modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean rim.

    Mary Brinton

    Mary C. Brinton

    Faculty Associate. Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
    33 Kirkland Street William James Hall 580 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-5794
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    Research interests: Gender stratification; labor market organization; education; economic sociology; and Japanese society.

    Vincent Brown

    Vincent Brown

    Faculty Associate (on leave 2023–2024). Charles Warren Professor of American History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
    1730 Cambridge Street Room S430 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Sources, circuits, and aftereffects of the African slave revolt in the Atlantic world.

    Matthew Bunn

    Matthew Bunn

    Faculty Associate. James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
    1 Brattle Square Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation control measures; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies.

    R. Nicholas Burns

    R. Nicholas Burns

    Faculty Associate (on leave). Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 JFK Street Mailbox #54 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Diplomacy; international politics; international power structure; US foreign policy; nuclear weapons and the Middle East; Europe; transatlantic relations; negotiations; alliances; multilateralism; US-China relations; and great power competition.

    Steven Caton

    Steven Caton

    Faculty Associate. Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
    Tozzer Anthropology Building 318 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-8355
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    Research interests: Linguistics; cultural studies; gender; Yemeni poetics and politics; US men's movement; and water sustainability.

    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra

    Faculty Associate. Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School.
    79 JFK Street L114 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Technology and expenditure growth in health care; the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care; the measurement of elderly well-being in India; and the links between antibiotic resistance and provider quality for slum dwellers.

    William C. Clark

    William C. Clark

    Faculty Associate (emeritus). Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 JFK Street P-32 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Science and sustainable development; social learning in international affairs; and institutions linking scientific knowledge and political action in the global environment.

    Dara Kay Cohen

    Dara Kay Cohen

    Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 John F. Kennedy Street Littauer 360 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: International relations; international security; civil war; political violence; violence during conflict; wartime sexual violence; gender and conflict; West Africa; Timor-Leste; El Salvador; and Haiti.

    Shawn Cole

    Shawn Cole

    Faculty Associate. John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School.
    25 Harvard Way Baker Library, #271 Boston, MA 02163
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    Research interests: Corporate and consumer finance in emerging markets; political economy and finance; microfinance; and economic development.

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    Timothy J. Colton

    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.
    1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
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    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.

    Jean Comaroff

    Jean Comaroff

    Faculty Associate. Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology,
    Department of Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
    Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: The making and unmaking of colonial society; the nature of the postcolony; the late modern world viewed from the Global South; and southern Africa.

    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai

    Faculty Associate. Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
    Baker 265 Boston, MA 02163
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    Research interests: International corporate finance; international public finance; and multinational firms.

    Frank Dobbin

    Frank Dobbin

    Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center; Faculty Associate. Chair; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
    William James Hall 530 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-5794
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    Research interests: Comparative and historical sociology; organizations; and policy analysis and public policy.

    Sarah Dryden-Peterson

    Sarah Dryden-Peterson

    Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration. Director, REACH; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
    Gutman 457 Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Research interests: Comparative education; community development; education in armed conflict, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; migration; and transnationalism.
    Pronouns: she/her

    Caroline Elkins

    Caroline Elkins

    Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University;
    Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.
    1730 Cambridge Street Room 432 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 495-2568
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    Research interests: Late colonial Kenya and the Mau Mau emergency; postconflict resolution; violence and memory; Christianity; and empire.

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