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    Michael B. McElroy

    Michael B. McElroy

    Faculty Associate. Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
    Pierce 100E Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 495-8839
    p: (617) 495-2351

    Research interests: Changes in composition of the atmosphere, with an emphasis on the impact of human activity; and sustainable development.

    Lisa McGirr

    Lisa McGirr

    Faculty Associate. Charles Warren Professor of American History, Department of History, Harvard University.
    35 Quincy Street Robinson Hall Room 108 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-4866
    p: (617) 496-2013

    Research interests: Twentieth-century United States, with an emphasis on politics and social movements; reform movements; intersection of religion and politics; state and civil society; and the United States and the world.

    Marc Melitz

    Marc Melitz

    Faculty Associate. David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
    1805 Cambridge Street Littauer 251 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 495-7730
    p: (617) 495-8297

    Research interests: International trade and investment; and producer-level responses to globalization.

    Ian Miller

    Ian Miller

    Faculty Associate (on leave 2023–2024). Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
    1730 Cambridge Street Room S421 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 384-7494

    Research interests: Modern Japan and East Asia, especially environmental history and the history of energy; cultural history and urban history; comparative imperialism; and natural disasters. 

    John M. Mugane

    John M. Mugane

    Faculty Associate. Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures; Director, African Language Program, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
    12 Quincy Street Barker Center, Room 244 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 496-4995

    Research interests: The story of Swahili; linguistic human rights; language in psychiatry; and how people learn languages.

    Yuko Kageyama-Hunt

    Yuko Kageyama-Hunt

    Senior Preceptor in Japanese (on leave in academic year 2023-24)
    5 Bryant St., #206
    p: (617) 495-8425

    Yuko Kageyama-Hunt has been teaching in the Japanese Language Program (JLP) since 2001, first as a preceptor, then since 2013 as senior preceptor. She has...

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    Afsaneh Najmabadi

    Afsaneh Najmabadi

    Faculty Associate (emeritus). Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Emerita, Department of History, Harvard University.
    Boylston Hall G33 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 496-7460

    Research interests: Sociocultural transformations of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and South Asia.

    Pippa Norris

    Pippa Norris

    Faculty Associate. Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 JFK Street Littauer 110 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-2850
    p: (617) 495-1475

    Research interests: Democracy and development; public opinion and elections; political communications; and gender politics.

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Faculty Associate (emeritus). Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 JFK Street P26 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-7773
    p: (617) 495-1123

    Research interests: Globalization policy; US foreign policy; and power and interdependence in world politics.

    Jacob Olupona

    Jacob Olupona

    Faculty Associate; Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School; Chair; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
    42 Francis Ave. Room 114 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 495-8221

    Research interests: Religious practices of African immigrants to the United States.

    Orlando Patterson

    Orlando Patterson

    Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
    William James Hall 520 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-5794
    p: (617) 495-3707
    Research interests: Sociology of slavery and freedom; ethnic relations; sociology of culture; and the sociology of political and economic development.
    Dwight H. Perkins

    Dwight H. Perkins

    Faculty Associate (emeritus). Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
    1805 Cambridge St. Littauer M-14 Cambridge, MA 02138
    Research interests: Economic development and economic history of East and Southeast Asia, particularly China, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
    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.
    1727 Cambridge Street, E306 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 496-4536
    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.
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    Susan J. Pharr

    Senior Adviser, Program on US-Japan Relations; Faculty Associate (emerita). Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
    1730 Cambridge Street, S238 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 496-8083
    Research interests: The social basis of democracy; Japanese politics; politics and society in East Asia; civil society and the state; women and politics; and environmental politics.
    Serhii Plokhii

    Serhii Plokhii

    Faculty Associate. Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
    1730 Cambridge Street Room S419 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-0621
    p: (617) 495-3527
    Research interests: Intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.
    Michael E. Porter

    Michael E. Porter

    Faculty Associate. Bishop William Lawrence University Professor; Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School.
    Ludcke House 105 Boston, MA 02163
    p: (617) 495-6309
    Research interests: International competitiveness; economic development; Japan; telecommunications; US domestic policy; Latin America; and environmental policy.
    Michael Puett

    Michael Puett

    Faculty Associate (on leave 2023–2024). Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
    2 Divinity Avenue Room 226A Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-6040
    p: (617) 495-8360
    Research interests: Chinese history; Chinese religions; historical anthropology; comparative history; comparative anthropology of statecraft; and political theory.
    Robert D. Putnam

    Robert D. Putnam

    Faculty Associate (emeritus, on leave 2023–2024). Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School.
    79 JFK Street B125 Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 495-1148
    Research interests: The changing role of religion in civic life; the implications of immigration for American communities; and the growing inequality among American youth.
    J. Mark Ramseyer

    J. Mark Ramseyer

    Faculty Associate. Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School.
    Hauser 204 Cambridge, MA 02138 f: (617) 496-6118
    p: (617) 496-4878
    Research interests: Japanese law, generally from a law and economics perspective; and governance and finance of Japanese firms.
    Michael Reich

    Michael R. Reich

    Faculty Associate (emeritus). Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Emeritus, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
    665 Huntington Avenue Building I, Room 1210 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA 02115
    p: (617) 432-0687
    Research interests: Political economy of public health policy, including health system reform, pharmaceutical policy, and global health policy.

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