Graduate Students
Ed.M. Candidate, International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research interests: International education, social entrepreneurship, economic development, gender equity, Kiswahili, and teacher quality in East Africa.
Ed.M. Candidate, International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Interests: rapid education interventions in areas of conflict
PhD student, Department of African and African American Studies Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Religion and the Reproduction of Educated Elites in Africa; Comparative History of Capitalism and Militarism in Eastern and Southern Africa; Regional Formation, Land Formalization and Identity Formulation in Post-Socialist Tanzania
Ed.M. Candidate, International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education
I am an Ed.M. Candidate in International Education Policy at HGSE, and am also pursuing an MA at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. My research interests are emergency education and research, monitoring, and evaluation in humanitarian work. Additionally, I spent three years working for a humanitarian NGO in Burundi and DRC, most recently on monitoring and evaluation and capacity-building for a community-driven reconstruction program.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government
Research Interests: Impact of traditional authorities on voting behavior; clientelism; and state spending in West Africa
PhD student, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research interests: Dental microstructure, isotopic chemistry, reconstruction of tooth growth and life history, human evolution in the
Plio-Pleistocene.
Ed.M. Candidate, International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education
I just came back from working for three years in Dakar Senegal as a teacher for an International Baccalaureate school. I graduated from Northwestern University in 2009 with a degree in Communications Studies and International Studies. I am also a graduate of SIT Study Abroad in Cameroon. I was awarded a fellowship to continue doing research there during the summer of 2008. I am particularly interested in West Africa, and particularly how they are using ICTs for academia.
PhD student, Department of Government Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research interests: Politics of business in developing countries;Â geographic focus on West Africa, Nigeria specifically
Public Policy G3 Harvard Kennedy School
Research Interests:Â Incentives in International Development Bureaucracies
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, African Politics, Democratization, Party System Development, Legislative Institutions, Political Reform
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, History Department
Research Interests: 19th & 20th-century African history, British imperial history, Kenya, South Africa, & Indian Ocean world
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government
Research Interests:Â bureaucratic-political relations, service delivery, agricultural-certification evaluation. (focus country: Ghana)
PhD candidate, Government Department Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: institutions, institutional change, and the interactions between state and local institutions; decentralization; state-building; development; Benin/West Africa
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Development and Industrial Organization
Department of African and African American Studies Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Film, digital media, and music in conflict regions, expressive culture and social/political activism in DRC, cultural theory
M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate, Social and Medical Anthropology Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:Â South Africa, HIV, TB, labor migration
Health Policy PhD, Management track Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research interests: health care workforce, coordination, collaboration, incentive design, low-resource settings, program evaluation
Ph.D. student, Department of History Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Modern South Africa, Chinese diaspora in Africa, China-Africa relations, Japan-Africa relations
