New Faculty Associates

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates during the 2024–2025 academic year:

Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. Ethnic politics; democracy; minority politics; representation; elections; Indian politics; and political parties.

Marcella Alsan, Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy; Director, Health Inequality Lab, Harvard Kennedy School. The causes and consequences of health inequality in the US and abroad using a combination of natural and randomized experiments.

Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Domestic politics of international relations; “naming and shaming”; foreign policy; human rights; experimental methods; and Israel-Palestine.

Lorenzo Bondioli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. The political economy of medieval Islamic empires.

David Glovsky, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Histories of mobility and migration; borderlands; spatial history; Islam; citizenship; pastoralism; gender; and histories of popular culture/sport.

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. Founding Director, Immigrant Justice Lab. African and Afro-Cuban migrants to South Florida in the late nineteenth century.

Stephanie M. Jones, Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Child Development and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Social and emotional development, with a focus on transforming learning environments in crisis and humanitarian settings.

Vishal Khandelwal, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Politics and economics of architecture and design; modern and contemporary architecture and design history; and modern and contemporary South Asia.

Wolfram Schlenker, Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System, Harvard Kennedy School. Food availability and price; economics of climate change; energy prices; pollution and human health; and migration.

Awa Ambra Seck, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Development economics; economic history; economics of migration; and political economy.

Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School. The modern Indian Ocean world; labor and religious history of South and Southeast Asia; and climate crises and interspecies relationships.

Roya Talibova, Sultan of Oman Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Political violence and state repression; legacies of conflict; political economy of conflict and development; and Russian and Eurasian politics.

Kaja Tally-Schumacher, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Ancient Mediterranean landscapes; comparative environmental histories; resiliency; and climate mitigation at cultural heritage sites.