#  New Faculty Associates 

 



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   ![Collage of the 8 new Faculty Associates](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/wcfia/files/collage-faculty2021-flat.jpg?itok=xfSvEgud) 

 

**The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2020–2021 academic year:**

**Daniel E. Agbiboa**, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. *Insurgency and political violence in Africa; informal economy, nonstate governance, and urban change; mobility and immobility; and youth politics.*  
   
**Mary Travis Bassett**, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population; Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. *Advancing health equity.*  
   
**Kevin Croke**, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. *The politics of health in developing countries.*  
   
**Xavier Gabaix**, Pershing Square Professor of Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, Harvard University. *Finance; macroeconomics; and behavioral economics.*  
   
**Gautam Nair**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. *Comparative and international political economy; distributive politics; business-government relations; and South Asia.*  
   
**Giuseppe J. Raviola**, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Associate Director, The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. *Mental health care delivery in the context of global health; child and adolescent mental health; humanitarian crises, disasters, and responses; and comparative psychiatry.*  
   
**Gabriela Soto Laveaga**, Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. *Knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India; medical professionals and social movements; and science and development projects in the twentieth-century Global South.*  
   
**David Y. Yang**, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University. *Understanding the forces of stability and forces of changes in modern authoritarian regimes, particularly in China.*

## Photo Caption

Left to right: Mary Travis Bassett, Kevin Croke, David Y. Yang, Daniel E. Agbiboa, Gautam Nair, Giuseppe J. Raviola, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, and Xavier Gabaix. *Credit: Kristin Caulfield*



 



 

 See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2021 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2021)