# New Faculty Associates ![Collage of 13 professionals in circular portrait frames set against a green background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/2025-05/NewFacultyCollage-2.jpg) 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.* --- ## More from this issue [### Spring 2025, Volume 39 Number 2 ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025) ![Graphic of a large dark green W overlaid onto a lighter green background with the words "Centerpiece" and issue number, alongside a close-up of a world clock.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Mailchimp-cover.png?itok=WcFNnBbK) [### Message from the Executive Director ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/executive-director) ![Erin Goodman headshot next to her name and title. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/ED-message-16x9card_0.jpg?itok=bmnE7But) [### Of Note ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/of_note) ![Looking up at the clouds, trees, and top of a building on a sunny day.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Of%20Note%20Banner%201920x825.jpg?h=b1067185&itok=zlYPjMbP) [### New Books ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/newbooks) ![Collage of a bunch of overlapping book covers set against beige background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/NewBooksCollage.png?itok=oteuUsBN) [### American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era with Ben Rhodes ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/feature_manshel) ![Ben Rhodes stands at lectern and speaks to a packed room in Tsai auditorium.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Manshel-Rhodes_025.jpg?itok=gMAu_gCy) [### Drunken Trees & Early Spring: Climate Change in the Subarctic ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/feature_price) ![Tilting evergreen trees in a snowy landscape with a blue sky.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/DrunkenTrees-Opening.jpg?h=198d5fb9&itok=JFdNatV9) [### Student Programs ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/prog_student) ![Group photo of the 2024-2025 Graduate Student Associates and select Weatherhead staff.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/ResearchGroups-Students-GSA.jpg?h=225260e9&itok=b_hQxUlp) [### The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies 40th Reunion ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/prog_academy) ![Five current and former executive officers, all wearing suits, stand next to each other, and one is holding a Weatherhead Center sign.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/ResearchGroups-Academy-EOfficers.jpg?h=8376f7ff&itok=Ldx7kBlp) [### Howard Miller World Clock ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/miller_clock) ![Cory Gillis next to Howard Miller world clock.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Clock-FinishedwCory-plugremoved.jpg?itok=Oq4FVCHW) [### Photo Gallery for Spring 2025 Centerpiece ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/photo_gallery) ![A woman points to a word in her powerpoint presentation.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Events-Special-SKalemli-Ozcan.jpg?h=9d82d84f&itok=BzMm-gqJ) [### In Memoriam: Mala Htun ](/publications/centerpiece/spring2025/in_memoriam_htun) ![Headshot of Mala Htun next to her name and dates of life, 1969-2025.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Memoriam-Htun-16x9card.jpg?itok=HkKiiwrn) [### In Memoriam: Joseph S. 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