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- Department of Anthropology
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- Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History / Center for European Studies
Charles S. Maier, born February 23, 1939 in New York City, is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. From 1991 to mid-2002 he was Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and served, 1994-2001, as Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Maier graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1960, studied at St. Antony's College, Oxford on a Henry Fellowship during 1960-61, and returned to take his Ph.D. in history at Harvard, 1961-67. He taught at Harvard as instructor, assistant professor, and lecturer from 1967 to 1975; was a visiting professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in the German Federal Republic during the spring semester of 1976; then served as Associate Professor and Professor of History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, until 1981, when he returned to Harvard as Professor of History, Krupp Foundation Professor of History, 1991-2002, then as the first Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History until his retirement in June 2019.
He served as director of the undergraduate program in Social Studies from 1993 to 1997 and as Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies from 1994 to 2001. Together with Professor Sven Beckert he directs The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, a program that funds student research and post-doctoral exchanges and runs an ongoing seminar on topics that span different world regions. During his teaching career he offered undergraduate courses on modern global history, the two world wars, the European Union, and political trials and political justice (Ethical Reasoning 12).
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- Consulting Manager at Education Resource Strategies
- Research Fellow for the Rennie Center for Education Research
As a researcher, Christopher leverages quantitative methods to advance questions and solutions in our understanding of how K-12 policies and schools support students' academic, cognitive, and social development through services like special and gifted education. Christopher also examines how broader issues such as historical and current discrimination, segregation, and funding affect students' access to high-quality learning.
Christopher is a Consulting Manager at Education Resource Strategies where he has supported the Alliance for Resource Equity, Texas Education Agency's System of Great Schools initiative, and LA Unified's pilot of a student-centered funding model.
Christopher is a PIER Fellow with the Institute of Education Sciences and Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University where he has conducted research on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Boston Charter Research Collaborative.
Christopher is a Research Fellow for the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy focused on special education policy issues within Massachusetts.
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- Associate
- Senior Lecturer
- Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology
Danilo Mandić is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Faculty Associate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His researches focus on war, refugees, social movements, nationalism, ethnic relations, organized crime and conflict societies. His book Gangsters and Other Statesmen received the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award (2022) and the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict's Best Book Award (2022). His book The Syrian Refugee Crisis is forthcoming in 2023. He co-edited Beyond Ethnicity: Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe (2017) with Tamara Pavasović Trošt).
In the summer of 2022, he conducted fieldwork in Ukraine on forced migration and the war. Undergraduate students interested in Research Assistantships on this topic should reach out by email.
David Armitage is the author or editor of eighteen books, most recently Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). Among his earlier works are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and The History Manifesto (co-auth., 2014), a New Statesman Book of the Year and one of the Chronicle of Higher Education's most influential books of the past 20 years. His most recent edited books are A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (co-ed., 2020), Oceanic Histories (co-ed., 2018), The Law of Nations in Global History (co-ed., 2017) and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (co-ed., 2014). He is completing an edition of John Locke's colonial writings and is working on a global history of treaty-making and treaty-breaking and on a study of opera and international law. His articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works have been translated into fifteen languages.
He co-edits two book series with Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context and Cambridge Oceanic Histories, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a Trustee of the Wiles Trust at Queen's University Belfast, and for many years he was a Syndic of the Harvard University Press. In 2006, the National Maritime Museum in London awarded him its Caird Medal for "conspicuously important work ... of a nature that involves communicating with the public" and in 2008 Harvard named him a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for "achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art". In 2015, he received Cambridge University's highest degree, the LittD, for "distinction by some original contribution to the advancement of science or of learning". He is a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea.
He is on sabbatical for the academic year 2022-23.
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- Professor Dobbin 's Work in Economic Sociology Generally Is Both Historical and Contemporary. His Forging Industrial Policy
Frank Dobbin received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy. His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton 2009) shows how corporate personnel managers defined what it meant to discriminate. With Alexandra Kalev, he is developing an evidence-based approach to diversity management. Innovations that make managers part of the solution, such as mentoring programs, diversity taskforces, and special recruitment programs, have helped to promote diversity in firms, while programs signaling that managers are part of the problem, such as diversity training and diversity performance evaluations, have not. These findings have been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Le Monde, CNN, National Public Radio, Fast Company, and Slate.
Professor Dobbin's work in economic sociology generally is both historical and contemporary. His Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (Cambridge 1994), traces nations' modern industrial strategies to early differences in their political systems. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader (Princeton 2004) assembles classics in economic sociology. The Sociology of the Economy (Russell Sage 2004) compiles research in economic sociology from leading scholars. The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy (Cambridge 2008) explores the rise of neoliberal policies in the post-war period. Stanford's Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000 (Emerald 2010) is a modern-day Rashomon about the revival of organizational studies in Palo Alto after 1970.
Professor Dobbin is director of the SCANCOR/Weatherhead Initiative in International Organizational Studies, member of the Advanced Leadership Initiative Faculty Executive Committee, and Co-Coordinator of the MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar.
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- Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
‘Secret Missions: Russian Intelligence, the Jesuits, and the Qing, 1675-1825' (in progress).
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- Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
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- Member of the National Press Club
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- Assistant Professor of Law and Justice, Algoma University
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- Sociology Faculty Assistant
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- Associate Professor of History, University of New South Wales
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- Law Clerk, US 9th Circuit of Appeals
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, she is the author or coauthor of four books and the editor of a dozen collective volumes/journal issues and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods. Her new book "Who Matters; How to Redefine Worth in our Divided World" will be published by Simon and Schuster (US) and Penguin (UK) in fall 2023. She co-chaired the advisory board to the 2022 UN Human Development Report, "Uncertain times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a World in Transformation." After directing the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 2014 to 2021, she leads its research cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Recent honors include a Carnegie Fellowship (2019-2021), a Russell Sage Foundation fellowship (2019- 2020), the 2017 Erasmus prize and honorary doctorates from six countries. She served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017.
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- Lecturer in History and Law, Queen Mary University of London
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- Associate Professor of History, Duke University
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- Professor of European Studies Professor of Sociology and AAAS at Harvard University
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- Senior Lecturer in History, University of Auckland
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- Associate Professor of History, Concordia University
‘Sir William Petty, Political Arithmetic, and the Transmutation of the Irish, 1652-1687' (Columbia University, 2005...
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- Associate Professor of History, Temple University
‘Missionaries, Slavery, and Race: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the 18th-Century British Atlantic World...
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‘Missionaries, Slavery, and Race: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the 18th-Century British Atlantic World' (Columbia University, 2005); published as Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2011).