Emma Ebowe is a PhD candidate in political theory at the Department of Government, Harvard University. She has interests in the history of political thought, democratic theory, feminist theory, black political thought, political methodology, and tech ethics.
Deren Ertas (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the History and Middle Eastern Studies joint program, focusing on the economic, social, and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the twentieth-century Middle East. Her dissertation examines the political economy of infrastructure and underground extraction in the Southeastern Taurus Mountains in the last two centuries of Ottoman rule.
Claudia Favarato is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Humboldt Foundation, at Universität Bayreuth. Her main research interests are in political theory and philosophy, with special emphasis on the notions of humanness, political relations, and political community in African and communitarian political thought.
Josh Freedman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on technocracy, bureaucracy, and the political theory of science and expertise in contemporary China. Before coming to Harvard, he lived and worked in Beijing and in Washington DC, researching and writing about social and economic policy issues in both China and the United States.
Munevver Gulce is a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies at Temple University. He earned an MA in Islamic Law from Marmara University with the title "The Banishment Practices in the Ottoman State After Tanzimat (1840-1850)," as well as a second MA in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) from Columbia University. Her master’s thesis was titled "An Explanation for the Ottoman Sultanate from the Perspective of Islamic Jurisprudence: The Treatise of Lütfi Pasha." Her academic interests include Islamic political thought in the Mamluk and early Ottoman periods, Sunni Caliphate Theory, the relationship between law and politics, and Islamic criminal law: theory and practice.
Sujin Heo is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the School of International Service, American University. She obtained an MA in International Relations from Seoul National University. Her research interests lie in the languages of international ordering in the early modern period. More specifically, her PhD project centers on the sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural law discourse of Iberian theologians and missionaries in Japan, as well as the reception of 'Spanish' thought in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century international law.
Allan M. Hillani is a Brazilian Ph.D. candidate in the philosophy department of the New School for Social Research in New York. He works on the intersection... Read more about Allan M. Hillani
Katherine Irajpanah is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she conducts research on international security, US foreign policy, and armed conflict. She is also a research affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. At Harvard, she has taught Government 1790: American Foreign Policy.
Bulelani Jili is a Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include Africa-China relations, Cybersecurity, ICT development, African Political Economy, Internet Policy, and Privacy Law. His research at the China, Law, Development project at Oxford University, funded by the European Research Council, is a 5-year, interdisciplinary and multi-sited research project that aims to understand the nature of order that underlies China’s new globalism.
Ibrahim Khan is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Chicago. His interests include international legal and political thought, Islamic law, anticolonial thought, and the intersection of religion and politics, especially in relation to the Middle East. Ibrahim’s dissertation aims to develop a historical and theoretical account of Global South engagements with the international law on the use of force, in the process engaging topics of war, sovereignty, and international order.
Mayaki Kimba is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. As a political theorist and historian of political thought, he... Read more about Mayaki Kimba
Sungho Kimlee studies political theory ancient and modern. Currently based at Tsinghua University, he is writing a book comparing self-cultivation in ancient Greece, China, and India. His research interests include virtue ethics, comparative religion, and the history of democratic institutions. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017, and was a Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His dissertation, Factions and Orders: from Machiavelli to Madison, traced the evolution of political thought on civic divides. His article, “The plebe in the Florentine Histories: Machiavelli’s notion of humours revisited” has been published in History of European Ideas.
Kajo Kubala is a PhD candidate in History at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to embarking on his PhD research, he completed an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Cambridge after which he joined Queen Mary and obtained a Master's degree in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History. His PhD thesis focuses on the role that corporations played in the history of political thought, in particular in their capacity as laboratories for civic ideas and bodies politic that influenced the emergence of the concepts of state and sovereignty.
Sergio Leos studies the shifting intellectual perspectives in the early-modern era, especially throughout the Iberian Atlantic world of the 16th and 17th centuries. His current research focuses on the ways Europeans interpreted and accommodated the unfamiliar realities of the New World. Other interests include the practice of ethnography and the effects of migration on individual and collective senses of identity. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at Harvard, Sergio completed his B.A. in History with a certificate in Latin American Studies at Princeton University in 2017.
Hangwei Li is a scholar of African society and politics, a political scientist at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). She taught at the China Agricultural University after completing her doctorate at SOAS, University of London. She has also been an advisor of African Views Organisation and a Predoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a researcher at the Global Development Policy Centre, Boston University. Hangwei has a broad interest in African political thought, post-colonial theory, theories on media politics, political theories of migration, the political economy of Africa and China-Africa interactions.
