2014 - 2015

Samuel M. Anderson holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from the University of California Los Angeles. His project, Celebrity, Violence, and the Mystic Arts, explores the shared aesthetics of spectacular public performances staged by militias, NGOs...

Hiba Bou Akar is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College. Bou Akar received her PhD in City and Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California at...

Thiemo Breyer holds Masters degrees in philosophy, cognitive science, and historical and social anthropology from the Universities of Freiburg and Cambridge. He received a doctorate (2010) and a habilitation (2014) in philosophy from the University of...

Sakura Christmas is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She focuses on Japanese imperialism in the Chinese borderlands through the lens of space, science, and the environment. Her dissertation examines how the Japanese...

Alex Fattal received a PhD in Anthropology as well as a secondary field in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University in 2014. His book manuscript, Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels, examines the way the...

Joseph Fronczak received a PhD in History from Yale University in 2014. His dissertation, “Popular Front Movements: Antifascism and the Makings of a Global Left during the Depression,” is a transnational history of the interwar world’s political economy...

Tae-Yeoun Keum is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she studies political theory. Her research is on political myth, or narratives about political events or conditions that are taken for granted, and are not...

Ram Natarajan received his PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2014. His research and teaching focus on violence, memory, human rights, and law. His current project, "The Power of Memory," is an ethnographic inquiry into the social worlds of...