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Stephen Chan

Stephen Chan

Member of the Advisory Council

Stephen Chan is a scholar of African politics at SOAS University of London's Department of Politics and International Studies, Centre for Global Media and Communications, and Centre of African Studies. His research spanning multiple areas and disciplines centres on the political thought and practice in Africa. For years, he has taught African Political Thought, Political Thought on the Just Rebellion, Religion and World Politics, and Politics of Africa.

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Vivien Chang

Postdoctoral Associate

Vivien Chang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs. She specializes in U.S. foreign relations, postcolonial Africa, Black internationalism, and the global economy. Her current project examines how anticolonial elites and Black Power activists in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States pursued economic sovereignty at the height of decolonization and the Cold War. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2022.

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Yi Ning Chang

Co-organiser

Yi Ning Chang is a political theorist with research interests in twentieth-century and postcolonial political thought. She specializes in mid-twentieth-century Southeast Asia; race and ethnicity; international law and politics in the global cold war; and theories of capitalism and development. Her dissertation offers a political theory of decolonization that begins in 1950s–60s Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the political thought and action of postcolonial politicians in Malaya/Singapore and Indonesia. She received her B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in 2020 and held the Harold Laski Fellowship at Harvard in 2020–2021. At Harvard, she is a Graduate Student Associate at the Asia Center and a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

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Dandan Chen

Member of the Advisory Council

Dandan Chen is a full professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Geography at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, where she coordinates the Asian Studies minor and has taught in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society since 2013. She is also an Associate in Research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Inter-Civilizations Institute of East China Normal University, and the founder of the global scholarly platform "Global Studies Forum" (globalstudiesforum.com).

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Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi

Member of the Advisory Council

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is Associate Professor in English at the University of Johannesburg and Director of UJ’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class. She is a senior research fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (JIAS) and a research associate at the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University. Her research is on black intellectual and literary histories and has appeared in Small AxeCallalooboundary2 and the UK Journal of Arts and the Humanities. Her current book project explores global frames for understanding blackness in early twentieth century Cape Town. Collis-Buthelezi is on the editorial committee for Small Axe and an editor of the Polity Critical South book series as well as Peter Lang’s Race and Resistance in the Long Twentieth Century.

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Yasmin Dualeh

Graduate Associate

Yasmin Dualeh is a Ph.D. student in 20th Century U.S. history at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores the political thought of Arab diasporic intellectuals in the US from the First World War through to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. She is primarily interested in their anticolonial/anti-imperialist thought, their writings on race, their attempts to influence and critique US foreign policy, and finally their visions of Arab modernity, subjectivity, and liberation. 

Deren Ertas

Graduate Associate

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.

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Claudia Favarato

Claudia Favarato

Postdoctoral Associate

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.

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Katrina Forrester

Katrina Forrester

Member of the Advisory Council

Katrina Forrester is Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. She is a political theorist and historian with research interests in twentieth-century social and political theory, particularly the history of liberalism, US and British postwar intellectual history, Marxism and feminism, and in climate politics and theories of work and capitalism.

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Josh Freedman

Josh Freedman (費哲明)

Graduate Associate

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.

Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew

Member of the Advisory Council

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. Her first book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in the political thought of Black Atlantic anticolonial nationalists during the height of decolonization in the twentieth century. 

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Arunabh Ghosh (郭旭光)

Member of the Advisory Council

Arunabh Ghosh is a social, economic, and intellectual historian of modern China, with interests in transnational histories of science and statecraft and Sino-Indian history. Ghosh’s first book, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the early People's Republic of China (Princeton University Press, 2020), investigates how the early PRC state built statistical capacity to know the nation through numbers.

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