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**The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2017–2018 academic year:**

**Sidney Chalhoub**, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. *The social history of Brazil in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the history of slavery, race, public health, and the literature of Machado de Assis.*

**Christie McDonald**, Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Research Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. *The dialogue of literature and criticism with philosophy, political theory, anthropology, and the arts as a global venture.*  
   
**Vikram Patel**, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. *Mental health in the context of sustainable development: generating knowledge, addressing the issue, and promoting its wide adoption in communities, countries, and globally.*  
   
**Derek Penslar**, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University. *Modern Jewish history; politics and society of Israel/Palestine; national movements; and nationality theory.*  
   
**Pia J. Raffler**, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. *The political economy of local governance, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.*  
   
**Eugene Richardson**, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. *Biosocial approaches to epidemic disease in Africa and Asia.*  
   
**James Sidanius**, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James, Department of Psychology; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. *The psychology of gender and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup conflict.*  
   
**Elizabeth S. Spelke**, Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. *Infant/toddler social and cognitive development with an emphasis on the link between perception and knowledge; and education and poverty alleviation in India and Ghana.*  
   
**Victor Seow**, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. *Technology, industry, energy, and the environment in China and Japan over the long twentieth century.*



 



 

 See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2018 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2018)