Winston Berg is a political scientist and Lecturer on Social Studies. His research focuses on how political communities form and defend beliefs under conditions of uncertainty—especially when traditional sources of epistemic authority, like experts...
Bréond Durr is a social and political theorist who works on punishment, free speech, and defamation. His research examines how legal, spatial, and symbolic forms shape our understandings of blame, legitimacy, and authority. He has written on juvenile...
A sociocultural anthropologist, Angela Leocata is a Lecturer on Social Studies and First-Generation Outreach Liaison. Her work examines the embodied experience of gendered labor and inequality, bringing labor theory to bear on questions of gender, the...
Having joined Social Studies in 2025, Dr. Chris Rominger serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is the primary contact for questions about senior theses, research funding, advising assignments, secondary fields, and joint and dual degrees, among...
Matthew Basilico MD, PhD is a physician-social scientist who is Chief Resident in Interventional Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Lecturer in Social Studies and Economics at Harvard FAS, Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard...
Miriam Gleckman-Krut's (she/her) work is at the intersection of scholarship on gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, statecraft, and law, with substantive interests in colonial and postcolonial histories, migration, epistemology, and violence.
Her dissertation...
Sarah B. K. Greenberg is a Lecturer in Social Studies. Sarah held a 2022-2023 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for her scholarship on Jewish political thought. Sarah’s research seeks to carve out space for Jewish thought and thinkers — particularly the...
Xinyu is a Lecturer on Social Studies. He is an anthropologist of urban space, sexuality and migration in Singapore and transnational Asia. His book project, Possessions of Citizenship: State-Constructed Housing and Neoliberal Frictions in Singapore...
Joan O'Bryan is a political theorist with research interests in the history of feminist thought and the relationship between law, sexuality, and technology. She received her PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, where her dissertation was...
Yasemin Bavbek, a historical sociologist of empires, studies American Protestant educational and humanitarian institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman imperial context. She examines how transnational relations shape local...
