Affiliates

Michele Lamont

Michèle Lamont

Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African & African America Studies, Harvard University.
Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Research interests: Inequality, race and ethnicity, the evaluation of social science knowledge, and the impact of neoliberalism on advanced industrial societies.
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@mlamont6
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Gbemisola Abiola

Ph.D. candidate in African and African-American Studies Department, Harvard University.
Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2021-2022)
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2022).

Research interests: Critical terrorism studies, anthropologies of political violence, forced migration and displacement studies and post-conflict reconstruction.    

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Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Assistant Professor, McGill University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2019).
William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program (2018-2019).

Research interests: Immigration, civil rights, racial identity, radicalism, surveillance and state power—within a North American diasporic frame.

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Merih Angin

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Koç University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2019).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2018-2019).

Research interests: International political economy, international organizations with a particular focus on the IMF and the World Bank, international development, migration, SOE privatizations, investment arbitration, AI, statistical methods, agent-based modelling, computational simulation, machine learning and mixed methods in social sciences. 

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Lorenza Antonucci

Associate Professor and Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2022-2023).

Lorenza Antonucci (she/they) is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology and Deputy Director of Research at the...

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Melike Arslan

Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2021-2022).
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2021-2022).
Research interests: Economic sociology, international political economy, legal studies; professionals and expertise and comparative-historical methods.... Read more about Melike Arslan
@arslan_melike
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Wolfgang Aschauer

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2020).
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2020).

Research interests: Social cohesion in the Western world; sociology of Europe; and quantitative methods such as crossnational survey research and equivalence issues in comparative research.

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen

Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2020).
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (fall 2019).

Research interests: Intersection of politics and belonging in relation to immigrant integration issues and national identity, from the point of view of minorities and majorities alike. 

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@simonsen_kris
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Anne Becker

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Steering Committee Member, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.

Research interests: Social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk for eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and school-based mental health promotion.

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Stefan Beljean

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Weber Institute for Sociology.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2020).

Research interests: Cultural sociology, sociology of education, theory, sociology of knowledge, cultural production, work and occupation, and the relationship between social inequality and processes of valuation and evaluation in society. 

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Yael Berda

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2021).
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (2019-2020)

Research interests: Intersections of sociology of law, bureaucracy and the state, race and racism and sociology of empires.

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@YaelBerda
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Jacqueline Bhabha

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population; Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Steering Committee Member, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
Faculty Associate; Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2021).

Research interests: Discrimination, stigma, racism, migration, refugees, statelessness, children and adolescent rights and child protection, and reparations. 

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Puneet Bhasin

Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow, NYU Gallatin
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2019).
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2019), Weatherhead Scholars Program.

Research interests: Political economy of global finance, labor politics, and corporate governance.

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