New Affiliates

The following affiliates are new to the Weatherhead Center this academic year. Welcome to all!

Adil Ahsan
Graduate Student Affiliate; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict.
PhD Candidate, Program in Public Policy, Harvard University.

Research interests: Development economics; political economy; and religion.

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Ahm Shamsuzzoha
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (2027).
Associate Professor, Department of Production, School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa.

Research interests: Digitalization in entrepreneurship; business networking within SMEs; green innovation and management; green and sustainable product design; and innovative supply chain and logistics management.

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Aishani Aatresh
Samuels Family Research Fellow.
PhD Candidate, Program in Public Policy, Harvard University.

Research interests: Science, technology, and society (STS); expertise, democracy, and nongovernmental organizations; legitimacy and global governance; politics of public health; and information technologies.

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Amadu Kunateh
Graduate Student Associate.
PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Research interests: Islamic philosophy and theology; Sufism and West African intellectual history; philosophy of religion and comparative metaphysics; African philosophy and Africana thought; and manuscript studies.

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Amelia Malpas
Samuels Family Research Fellow.
PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Core–periphery relations; and imperialism.

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Amen Jalal
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Department of Economics, London School of Economics.

Research interests: Development, environmental, and labor economics; gender and climate change; labor markets in low-income countries; female employment; job search; social protection; natural disasters; and South Asia.  

Pronouns: she/her

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Amit Singh
Graduate Student Affiliate; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program.
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School.

Research interests: Comparative law; apex courts; judicial reasoning; and legal philosophy.

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Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett
Graduate Student Affiliate.
PhD Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Research interests: Labor economics; firm productivity and management practices; development economics; Mexico and emerging markets; applied microeconomics and causal inference; and economics of strategy. 

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Anirudh Sankar
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
PhD, Department of Economics, Stanford University.

Research interests: Knowledge and development; learning under complexity; models and uncertainty; East Africa; and India. 

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Annushka Agarwal
Undergraduate Associate; Undergraduate Research Fellow, Canada Program.
Departments of History and of Mathematics, Harvard College.

Research interests: Canadian history; environmental history; modern Arctic; US foreign policy; English literature; utopian studies; and probability theory.

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Anthony Garciano
Graduate Student Affiliate.
PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: History and education; comparative education; US–Philippine relations; and colonial and postcolonial history.

Pronouns: he/him

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Anwesha Bhattacharya
Graduate Student Associate.
PhD Candidate, Program in Public Policy, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political economy; South Asian politics; identity politics; development; gender; mental health; and higher education.

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Aran Sonnad-Joshi
Undergraduate Associate, Rogers Family Research Fellow.
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard College.

Research interests: Colonial medicine and science; drug policy and history; substance use; mental health; housing; and biopolitics.

Pronouns: he/him

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Ashley (Yuqi) Zheng
Kenneth I. Juster Fellow.
Departments of History and of Computer Science, Harvard College.

Research interests: Sino–American relations; history of technology; and modern economic history.

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Ava Rem
Undergraduate Associate.
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Program in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard College.

Research interests: Cuban and Cuban American diaspora studies; journalism; democratization in authoritarian regimes; and transnational solidarity.

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Ayşe Betül Çelik
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program.
Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Sabanci University.

Research interests: Ethnic conflict; Kurdish Issue in Turkey; civil war; peace processes; intergroup relations; forced migration; and women and peacemaking.

Pronouns: she/her

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Baris Istipliler
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (spring 2027).
Assistant Professor, Business School, University of Mannheim.

Research interests: Entrepreneurial cognition and behavior; institutions and entrepreneurial conduct; small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) research; and transgenerational entrepreneurship.

Pronouns: he/him

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Basak Siklar
Graduate Student Affiliate.
PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research interests: Architectural history and historic preservation; history of German and Turkish modernism; transnational architectural history; and international cultural heritage policy.

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Ben Kaplow
Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Research interests: Colonization and decolonization; North Africa; land policy and the environment; political economy of natural resources; and state building.

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Benjamin Maury
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (spring 2027).
Wahlroos Professor of Finance, Hanken School of Economics.
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Brianna Cheng
Graduate Student Affiliate.
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: US history; transnationalism; race and ethnicity; and empire.

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Cameilla Pham
Graduate Student Affiliate.
PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Research interests: Translation studies; socialist realism; literary history of French Indochina; Southeast Asian literatures; comparative colonialisms and modernisms; and Vietnamese and East Asian cultural exchange and language politics.

Pronouns: she/her

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Carl Fey
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (fall 2026).
Professor, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School.

Research interests: How cultural and institutional differences between countries affect management practices; innovation; AI; internationalization; and China and other large transforming economies. 

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Casper Larsen
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (spring 2027).
Assistant Professor, Center for Corporate Governance, Department of Accounting, Copenhagen Business School.

Research interests: Corporate governance; labor economics; microeconometrics; labor relations; co-determination institutions; sustainability; and DEI.

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Cat O'Donnell
Graduate Student Affiliate; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict.
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political parties and social movements; democracy; violence; incels and the manosphere; organizational conflict and change; political communication; and media. 

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Chris Li

Graduate Student Associate.
PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School.

Research interests: US–China relations; Chinese politics and foreign policy; technology and geopolitics; and biotechnology competition.

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Cody Billock
Sang-Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program.
PhD, Department of History, Ohio University.

Research interests: Vietnam War history; Vietnamese history; Cold War history; American foreign policy; military history; decolonization; history of communism; and history of revolution.

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Constantin Blome
Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (spring 2027).
Professor of Transformative Innovation, House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics.

Research interests: Supply chain management; geopolitics and supply chains; supply chain risk and resilience; transformative innovation; and sustainability and innovation in supply chains.

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Cynthia Garcia
Undergraduate Associate.
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Department of Economics, Harvard College.

Research interests: International criminal law; transitional justice; business–government relations; human rights; democratic institutions; political theory; economics; and legal history.

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Dailan Xu
Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Undergraduate Associate.
Departments of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard College.

Research interests: History of late imperial and modern China; issues of modernity, memory, frontier, and nation building; history of knowledge and of disciplines; transnational and global history; Sino–German relations; and theories of history...

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