Student Programs
2022–2023 Graduate Student Associates
The Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program is one of the Center's oldest and most valued programs. Directed by Erez Manela, professor of history and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate, the program welcomes applicants from any of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. Thank you to this year's GSAs for all your hard work and dedication!
2023 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following Undergraduate Associates who were awarded 2023 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work.
Aysha Emmerson, “Once Upon a Time in Fairy Creek: Resilience and Ruination in the Anthropocene.”
Sophie Stromswold Feldman, “Longing and Belonging in the World's Coldest Country: Immigrant Integration in Norway.”
Waseem Nabulsi, "Magic Mountain: Samaritan Astrological Intervention in Palestinian Misfortune."
Alexander Tam, “To Be A Citizen: Rights, Obligations, and Belonging at the Social Margins of the Confederacy.”
Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper, "Strange Care in the War on Terror."
Undergraduate Associates 2023–2024
The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Associates for the 2023–2024 academic year and have received funding to support research and travel in connection with their senior thesis projects on international affairs. Undergraduate thesis research funding comes from the Weatherhead Center as well as from our Hartley Rogers Family Fund.
Arjun Adotei Akwei (Government; Astrophysics) will travel to India to conduct research on the US-India relationship through the lens of Indian postcolonial nationalism and other identity-based frameworks.
Laura Voss Connor (Social Studies) will conduct research on the US Agency for International Development’s mission in Bolivia and the circumstances of its departure in 2013.
Tessa Isabelle Conrardy (Government) will conduct research in Germany on why and how a number of independent Russian news organizations have moved their newsrooms abroad since the invasion of Ukraine.
Amen Hasset Gashaw (Government; Molecular & Cellular Biology) will travel to England, Switzerland, and Ethiopia to compare the efficacy of development projects sponsored by religious and secular aid organizations.
Henry N. Haimo (History) will conduct archival research in England and Ghana on cartography of the Gold Coast—now Ghana—from the nineteenth century to the 1960s, a time period that represents a struggle over ownership and independence.
Justin Hu (Romance Languages & Literatures; History) will travel to France to conduct archival research on interwar colonial Martinique production of a cohort of political luminaries.
Logan Christopher Kelly (Social Studies) will research the political and social factors that drove the drug decriminalization process in Portugal.
Sameer Majid Khan (History of Science; Anthropology) will study the everyday experience of trauma in Indian-administered Kashmir, after centuries of occupation in the region.
Dina M. Kobeissi (Government; Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) will travel to Lebanon to explore the impact of sanctions in the MENA region, highlighting how and why the results of sanctions deviate from the original goal of establishment.
Hamaad Waqar Mehal (Social Studies) will conduct research in Pakistan to access Muhammad Iqbal's archived writings and construct a genealogy of the emergence of Muslim nationalism in South Asia.
Lauren Sara Morganbesser (Government) will research how the United Arab Emirates sees itself on the global stage and understand its foreign policy vision for the future.
Jamal Nimer (Social Studies) will conduct a study of the position of Arab-Israelis in the Israeli labor market, exploring the obstacles toward upward mobility, including hiring discrimination, that affect Arabs in Israel.
Garrett O'Brien (Social Studies) will travel to Rwanda to study how government officials and civilians understand Chinese investment in the country and whether the Rwanda-China relationship represents a South-South partnership.
Madison Stein (History; Global Health & Health Policy) will conduct archival research at the University of Exeter to study solidarity and transnational ties in Arab Gulf conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lavinia Teodorescu (Government; Art, Film, and Visual Studies) will travel to Germany to conduct research on the post-Cold War emergence of multiple strong paramilitary organizations in the region.
Elizabeth Vasconcellos e Silva (Government; History) will travel to Brazil and Portugal to gather data on the immigrant experiences and political affiliations, including voting patterns, of Brazilian immigrants in greater Boston and greater Lisbon.
Eleanor Villafranca Wikstrom (Social Studies; Mind, Brain, Behavior) will conduct archival research in the Philippines and Washington, DC to investigate the role of English-only instruction within the US colonial education system and the transpacific project of epistemic colonialism.
Claire Koeun Yoo (History & Literature; Film & Visual Studies) will travel to England to research how American exceptionalism and identity manifested in the Girl Scouts in comparison to how British colonialist ideology manifested in the British Girl Guides.
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Group photo of the 2022–2023 Graduate Student Associates (GSAs) and a few Center staff at their final GSA lunch on May 5, 2023. Credit: Michelle Nicholasen