Standing Committee

Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship covers the politics, cultures...

Joel Suarez is a historian of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century United States with interests in labor history, political economy, and the social history of ideas. He is currently completing his first book, The Labor of Liberty: Work and the...

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Jamie Martin is an international historian with a focus on the history of international political economy and empire, particularly during the era of the world wars. He is the author of ...

David Armitage, MA, PhD, LittD, IntFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, MAE, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches...

Christina Ciocca Eller is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies (effective July 2019). She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Columbia University as well as graduate degrees in Women’s Studies and Management Research from the University of...

Adaner Usmani is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies. His research is driven by some simple questions about the distribution of flourishing and suffering in modern societies. He is also interested in the often-fraught relationship...