Faculty

Adrien Abecassis

Associate, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2019-2020). Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Diplomacy, international cooperation and relations, European affairs, governance, public opinion, and populism.... Read more about Adrien Abecassis

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adrien_abecassis@hks.harvard.edu

Yael Berda

2014-17 Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University.
2019-2021 Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School. Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2021).

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

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yberda@g.harvard.edu

Shai Dromi

Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2020).

Research interests: Comparative-historical sociology, global and transnational sociology, cultural sociology, humanitarian movements and political culture.... Read more about Shai Dromi

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shai.dromi@g.harvard.edu

Yossi Harpaz

Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Globalization; international migration; citizenship; nationalism and ethnicity; political sociology; social theory; and historical-comparative sociology.

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yharpaz@wcfia.harvard.edu

Hilary Holbrow

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Work and organizations, migration, inequality, race, ethnicity, gender, and East Asian societies, and stratification

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hholbrow@fas.harvard.edu

Tiffany Joseph

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2021).

Research interests: Race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas, the influence of immigration on the social construction of race in the U.S., immigrants' health and healthcare access, immigration and health policy and the experiences of minority faculty in academia.

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t.joseph@northeastern.edu

Anastasia Karakasidou

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2020). Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2020).

Research interests: Role of intellectuals, women, and the Greek Communist Party in national ideology construction in Greece, and global cultural history of cancer as an epidemic of modernity.

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akarakas@wellesley.edu

Peggy Levitt

Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2020).

Research interests: Global arts and culture, museums, international migration, transnational relations and processes, development, and religion.

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plevitt@wellesley.edu

Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs

Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University. Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2020).

Research interests: Cultural and cognitive causes of the disconnect between meritocratic perception and unequal reality--and explores its political consequences.

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mijs@fas.harvard.edu

Talia Shiff

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University. Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center at Harvard University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Cultural sociology;,political sociology, sociology of law, asylum and immigration, gender, moral boundaries, evaluation and categorization.

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talia_shiff@wcfia.harvard.edu

Elke Winter

William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Sociology, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2021).

Research interests: Migration, ethnicity, multiculturalism, national identity and citizenship.

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elke.winter@uottawa.ca

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