People

Sven Beckert

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University; WCFIA Faculty Associate

Professor Beckert's research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. His...

Charles Maier

csmaier@fas.harvard.edu

Research Professor of History, Harvard University; WCFIA Faculty Associate

Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard and served as director of CES from 1994-2001 and in the fall of 2006. Maier will teach Historical Studies B-53 (World War I), Ethical Reasoning 12 (Political Trials and Political Justice) in...

Edwin Ackerman

Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Syracuse University

Dr. Edwin Ackerman uses comparative-historical methods to understand how political identities form and become operative. He has studied this process in two contexts: political party formation in Latin America, and the historical trajectory of debates over...

Westenley Alcenat

WIGH Associate 2015-2016

PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University

Westenley (Wes) Alcenat is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University in New York City. His research interest is in comparative U.S and Caribbean history with a strong focus on the shared histories of the African Diaspora and nations in the...

Felipe Alfonso

PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo

Global Fellow at Harvard University, Spring 2019

Felipe Rodrigues Alfonso has a Bachelor's Degree in History at the University of Sao Paulo with partial completion at the University Paris-Sorbonne IV, a Master's Degree in Social History at the University of Sao Paulo, and is currently a PhD Candidate at...

Zaib un Nisa Aziz

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH)

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa

Zaib Aziz is a historian of global and imperial history with a focus on the British Empire and Modern South Asia. She is particularly interested in histories of decolonization, labour and internationalism. Currently, she is Assistant Professor in the...

Mou Banerjee

Associate, Research Cluster on Global Transformations

Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Mou Banerjee received her PhD from Harvard University in 2018, where she recently received the Harold K. Gross award, which is granted annually by the faculty of the History department to the graduate student whose dissertation ‘gave greatest promise of a...

Jessica Barnard

jbarnard@wcfia.harvardedu

Administrator, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) and Weatherhead Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy.

Jessica Barnard has worked at the WCFIA since 2005, and for WIGH since its start in 2012.

Tomás Bartoletti

Postdoctoral Fellow. Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Principal Investigator, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich.

Tomás Bartoletti is a Senior Lecturer at the Chair for History of the Modern World of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently Principal Investigator for the project "Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations, c...

Jody Benjamin

WIGH Graduate Research Fellow, 2013

Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside

Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth...

Claudia Bernardi

Visitor 2023; WIGH Fellow 2014-2015

Associate Professor, History of the Americas, University of Perugia, Italy

Research Interests: Governance of migration; fronteras and border theories; global regimes of labor mobility; and autonomous practices of social movements.

Danielle N. Boaz

Visiting Fellow, WIGH

Stuart Hall Fellow, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Danielle N. Boaz is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the area of social justice, human rights, and the law at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has a Ph.D. in history with a specialization in Africa, the African Diaspora, and...