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The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to become WCFIA Faculty Associates in the 2014–2015 academic year:

**Lawrence Bobo**, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of Sociology and Department of African and African American Studies; Chair, Department of African and African American Studies. *Race; ethnicity; politics; and social inequality.*

**Paul Y. Chang**, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. *Social and political change in South Korea; and democratization and the changing family structure.*

**Alejandro de la Fuente**, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies. *Comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas; the evolution of slave regimes in a comparative perspective; and the intersections between race, nation, and citizenship in Latin America.*

**Laura Díaz Anadón**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Drivers of technology innovation; science and technology policy; water-energy-food-pollution infrastructure linkages; managing uncertainty; United States; China; European Union; and the Middle East and North Africa.*

**Ann Forsyth**, Professor of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. *The social aspects of physical planning with a focus on suburbs and creating healthy places.*

**Tamar Herzog**, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese History, Department of History. *The relationship between Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the early modern period.*

**Tarun Khanna**, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School. *Entrepreneurship in emerging markets; and comparative work on trajectories of economic development.*

**Horacio A. Larreguy Arbesú**, Assistant Professor, Department of Government. *Political economy and economic development using both theory and econometrics.*

**Quentin Mayne**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Comparative political behavior; urban politics and multilevel governance; and welfare policy, with a focus on advanced industrial democracies.*

**Rahul Mehrotra**, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design. *Ephemeral Urbanism—studying and constructing taxonomy of patterns of temporary occupation of space across the globe.*

**Kathryn A. Sikkink**, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Human rights; international law; transnational advocacy networks; Latin American politics; and transnational justice.*



 



 

 See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2014 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2014)