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Melani Cammett
Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Research interests: Conflict; religion and ethnicity; development; and Middle East politics.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Melani Cammett.

Sarah Dryden-Peterson
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Director, REACH; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Research interests: Comparative education; community development; education in armed conflict, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; migration; and transnationalism.

Pronouns: she/her

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Elhanan Helpman
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Research interests: International economics; productivity and growth; and political economy.

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Ya-Wen Lei
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2026–2027); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Research interests: Political sociology; law and society; economic sociology; sociology of media and information technologies; sociology of work, labor, and labor movements; science and technology studies; development; and China studies.

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Erez Manela
Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History; Interim Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.

Research interests: International history; evolution of international society; US foreign relations; modern Middle East; modern East Asia; and international and global health.

Erez Manela.

Michael Szonyi
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History, Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Modern history of rural China; and Chinese social and economic history, fifteenth-century to the present.

Michael Szonyi.