Anna Russo is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Social Studies at Harvard University. An empirical economist, she works at the intersection of environmental economics, public finance, and industrial organization. Her research studies the design of...
Kyle E. Waldman is a sociologist and demographer whose research examines ethnoracial group- and boundary-making processes, immigrant incorporation, and social stratification, with a focus on the Latin American–origin population in the United States...
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...
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 on Social Studies. Her first book project critiques the 'Western' political theory canon's marginalization of Jewish political thought by emphasizing "covenantal authority" as a non-sovereign, circulating form of...
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...
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...
