Student Programs
2005-06 Graduate Student Associates
The Weatherhead Center's program for Graduate Student Associates facilitates and supplements students' independent research toward doctoral and advanced professional degrees. Program members come from many of Harvard's academic departments and professional schools to work on projects related to international, transnational, and comparative topics. Steven Levitsky, associate professor of government, is the program director.
- Clare Putnam, coordinator of student programs (middle), is joined by four Graduate Student Associates who are taking a break from their research to attend the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture and reception on November 3 honoring the Fisher Family Commons as part of the dedication of the Center for Government and International Studies. Photo: Martha Stewart
- Ben Ansell
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. An analysis of the determinants of public investment in human capital, particularly focusing on the role of international forces.
- Sepideh Bajracharya
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology. How rumor, political intrigue, conspiracy theories and prophecy mediate the relationship between neighborhood systems of justice and national palace level politics in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal.
- Pär Cassel
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of History. Nation-building and extraterritoriality in East Asia in the 19th century.
- Sei Jeong Chin
- Ph.D. candidate, Committee on History and East Asian Languages. Historical changes in relations between the practice of news making and government policy formation during the period of national crisis and nation-building that spanned the years 1931 to 1952 in modern China.
- Asif Efrat
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. An original framework for understanding judicial development through a macro analysis of court reforms across countries and across time.
- Magnus Feldmann
- Ph.D. candidate, Committee on Political Economy and Government. Comparative political economy of post-socialist institutions, especially wage bargaining/industrial relations; applications of varieties of capitalism to post-socialism.
- Daniel Gingerich
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Causes of administrative reform in multiparty presidentialist systems in Latin America using a theoretical framework that combines a focus on pre-electoral coalition formation and illicit party financing.
- Pengyu He
- J.D. candidate, Law School. Access to justice: legal aid in China.
- Michael Horowitz
- Sidney R. Knafel Fellow. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. The spread of revolutions in military affairs: causes and consequences for international power and conflict.
- Zongze Hu
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology. From revolution to the politics of everyday life: changes in perceptions of the “state” in rural North China.
- Jee Young Kim
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology. Study of variations in labor practices among Korean-funded firms in Vietnam's footwear industry, to be explained by interfirm relations and global labor-rights movements.
- Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Developing a rational choice theory of states' uses of intelligence and counterintelligence strategies.
- Diana Kudayarova
- Ph.D candidate, Department of History. Labor policy and labor-market strategies of white-collar professionals in the Soviet Union.
- Siddharth Mohandas
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Explaining the success or failure of U.S. state-building efforts in foreign interventions.
- Phillip Yukio Lipscy
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Indigenizing the stickiness of international institutions: Will conduct an empirical examination of a theory that explains how international institutions change as a function of underlying variables in the policy area.
- Manjari Miller
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Post-colonial ideology and foreign policy, historically contingent state interests: the cases of India and China.
- John Ondrovcik
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of History. Exploration of the new cultural meanings and structures that arose out of the civil war violence in Germany and Russia from 1918 to 1923.
- Shannon O'Neil
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. The impact of social security reforms on social organization and participation in Latin America.
- Sonal Pandya
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Foreign trade and investment policies; international and comparative political economy; political economy of development.
- Sandra Sequeira
- Ph.D. candidate, Committee on Public Policy. The politics of privatization in sub-Saharan Africa; political economy of institutions.
- Hillel Soifer
- Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government. Describing and explaining variation in the development of state power across countries in Latin America, focusing on the cases of Chile and Peru.
- Sarah Wagner
- Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology. The return of identity: technology, memory, and the identification of the missing from the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Joseph Wicentowski
- Ph.D candidate, Department of History. A history of the “hygiene police” in modern Taiwan, from Japanese colonial rule to Chinese Nationalist rule.
- Emily Zeamer
- Ph.D candidate, Department of Anthropology. How media, globalization, and traditional Buddhist ideology are influencing changing ideas about feminine duty and moral responsibility in contemporary Thailand.