Student Programs
2023–2024 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!
2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following undergraduate students who were awarded 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work.
Amen Gashaw
“For God or Greater Good: Organizational Religiosity as an Enhancer of Coalitional Capacity and Efficacy in Development Service Delivery”
Henry Haimo
“Rewriting History: Education, Publishing, and Media in Ghana, 1945–1966”
Justin Hu
“Studying with Césaire: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies of the Lycée Victor Schœlcher during the Third Republic, 1870–1945”
Logan Kelly
“Immoral Medicine: A Comparative Study of Religious Influence on Drug Policy in Portugal and Spain”
Eleanor Wikstrom
“Making Subjects of Subjects: The Transnational Project of US Education, English, and Epistemic Colonialism in the Philippines”
Undergraduate Associates 2024–2025
The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Associates for the upcoming 2024–2025 academic year. They have received funding from the Weatherhead Center as well as from our Hartley Rogers Family Fund to support summer 2024 research and travel in connection with their senior thesis projects.
João Victor Bezerra de Arruda
Government; Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Brazil / corruption levels, polarization, and voting behavior
Christina Nehemie Chaperon
Sociology
Jamaica / impact of colonization on gender and female-based anticolonial resistance movements
Adreanna Elizabeth Dillen
Social Studies
Trinidad and Tobago / colonial history legacy on how economy adapts to climate change
Nadia Raquel Douglas
Government
Switzerland / impact of ethnic/racial identity in two-state violent conflicts and resolutions
Samir Duggasani
Government; Computer Science
India / parallels between suppression of Black Americans under Jim Crow and that of religious minorities in India
Anna Farronay
History; Romance Languages and Literatures
Argentina / aesthetics and national identity formation
Alice Ruby Ferguson
History; Government; History of Art and Architecture
England, France, and Washington DC / intelligence diplomacy between allied nations
Sebastian Ramirez Feune
Government
Puerto Rico and Guam / English and local languages, American territorial policies, and resident sentiments
Peter Nicholas Darlow Jones
Government; Spanish
Hungary, Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / anti-NGO foreign agent laws on civic space
Jovan Lim
Social Studies; Economics
Thailand and South Korea / economic histories of Shin Ramyun in South Korea and MAMA Noodles in Thailand
Rayha Kelly McPherson
Psychology; African & African American Studies
Rwanda / movement-based intervention for adolescents with transgenerational trauma
Aqil Arif Merchant
Anthropology; Global Health and Health Policy
Greece / EU migration-deterrence measures on asylum seekers
Saya Horikawa Mitchell
Social Studies
Japan / state building in Manchukuo
Laila Abdulaleam Nasher
History; Anthropology
Oman and England / South Yemeni separatism and independence
Ryan Hieu Doan-Nguyen
History & Literature; Government
England / UK's overlooked involvement in the Vietnam War
Allaura Marie Osborne
Anthropology; History
South Dakota / Pine Ridge Reservation tribal members' experiences with Indian boarding schools and family services
Charlotte Pearl Ritz-Jack
Social Studies
South Africa / use of restorative justice in postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Daniella Owusu Saforo
Government; Educational Studies
Ghana and Sierra Leone / education policy reforms in resource-constrained countries
Maryam Suraya Karim Tourk
Social Studies
England and India / effects of Indian legislation and surveillance on law in Kashmir
Jamaal Nathan Andre Willis
Government; African & African American Studies
Jamaica / impact of British antihomosexual legal codes
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2023–2024 Graduate Student Associates and staff. Credit: Michelle Nicholasen