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**The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2014–2015 academic year:**

**Julie Battilana**, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. *Hybrid organizations that diverge from typical corporations and not-for-profits by combining aspects of both at their core.*

**Sílvia Benedito**, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. *The role of atmosphere, weather, and sensation in the design disciplines of landscape architecture and urbanism.*

**Lisa Berkman**, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology; Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. *The role of social conditions and social and economic policies in shaping patterns of population health and aging.*

**Theresa S. Betancourt**, Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. *Developmental/psychosocial consequences of adversity on children/families; resilience; humanitarian and refugee studies; and cross-cultural mental health research.*

**Matthew Blackwell**, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. *Political methodology; historical political economy; American politics; and historical persistence of beliefs.*

**Tomiko Brown-Nagin**, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History and Co-Director, Program in Law and History, Department of History, Harvard University. *Constitutional law; constitutional and social history; civil rights movements in the Atlantic world; immigration and social mobility; comparative education law and policy.*

**Michael Callen**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Identifying ways to address accountability and service delivery failures in the public sector in developing countries with experiments and primary data collection.*

**Melani Cammett**, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. *Comparative politics; political economy of development; religion and ethnicity; governance and welfare by public, private, and non-state actors; and Middle East politics.*

**Candelaria Garay**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Latin American politics; social policy; political parties; social movements; and subnational variation in policy implementation.*

**Lorgia García-Peña**, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. *Contemporary US Latino/a literature and cultures; Caribbean literature and cultures; performance studies; race and ethnicity; transnational feminism; migration; human rights; and Dominican and Dominican diaspora studies.*

**Susan Greenhalgh**, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society; Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. *Social studies of science, technology, and medicine; anthropology of the state, governance, and public policy; critical weight studies; politics of reproduction, population, and life itself; gender studies; modernity and globalization; socialism and postsocialism; People’s Republic of China; Taiwan; and selected interests in US society.*

**Matteo Maggiori**, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University. *Finance and international macroeconomics.*

**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.*

**George Paul Meiu**, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Departments of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. *Race; ethnicity; sexuality and sexual citizenship; kinship; gender; economic anthropology; historical anthropology; East Africa; and Kenya.*

**Samuel Moyn**, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University. *The relationship between the history of human rights and the evolution of global political economy since 1945.*

**Katharina Piechocki**, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. *Cartography, literature, and translation studies; and investigating the borders of early modern Europe and the contact zones between European/non-European.*

**Laurence Ralph**, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Departments of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. *The impact of police violence in the US and abroad as it relates to global governance.*

**Maya Sen**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Law; political economy; political methodology; race and ethnic politics; and judicial politics.*

**Michael Walton**, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *India; rural education; inequality; the political economy of cities; corporate behavior; and the politics of statesociety and state-business interactions.*

**Elizabeth M. Wolkovich**, Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. *Predicting plant responses to climate change, with a focus on how both wild and crop species will shift across Europe and North America in the future.*

**Jonathan Zittrain**, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. *Digital property and content; cryptography; electronic privacy; the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture; human computing; and technology in education.*



 



 

 See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2015 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2015)