People

Rawi E. Abdelal

Faculty Associate.

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School.

Research interests: International political economy; nationalism and foreign economic policy; international relations among post-Soviet states; globalization; capital flows; and international organization.

Daniel E. Agbiboa

danielagbiboa@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Associate.

John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Insurgency and political violence in Africa; informal economy, nonstate governance, and urban change; mobility and immobility; and youth politics.

Marc Aidinoff

maidinoff@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Associate.

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Research interests: The historical and contemporary interplay of automated digital technologies and the development of welfare states.

Yamini Aiyar

Advisory Committee.

President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research; Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Associate.

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: West African history; Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; comparative slavery; social history of alcohol; ecology; social history; and cultural history.

Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi

Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (fall 2025).

Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway.

Research interests: Business relationships and networks; business cycles; higher education competition and governance; legitimacy of business schools; and management education.

Eram Alam

ealam@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Associate.

Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Research interests: The history of science and medicine in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on transnational movements and migrations.

Hicham Alaoui

Advisory Committee.

Founder and Director, Hicham Alaoui Foundation.

Paulina Alberto

Faculty Associate.

Professor, Departments of African and African American Studies and of History.

Research interests: Afro-Latin America; race and ethnicity; Afro-Latin American thought and politics; Argentina; Brazil; and intellectual and cultural history.