Doctoral Fellow 2020-2021

Joseph Wallerstein is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and a doctoral fellow with the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. His research interests center on homelessness, housing insecurity, and poverty alleviation. When the COVID-19 pandemic...

Brianna is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the HMUI Doctoral Workshop.  Her research interests include the social dimensions of climate change adaptation, environmental migration, climate change mobilities, and the...

Ronak Jain is a PhD Candidate in Economics and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. Her research interests lie in the fields of economic development and behavioral economics. Her ongoing work includes examining education...

Alyssa Huberts is a PhD candidate in the Harvard Government department and a Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation considers the political economy of urban service quality in Latin America: what incentives do urban politicians...

Courtney Wittekind is a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology and a Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative fellow. Her doctoral research pursues two lines of inquiry linked to urban development and economic insecurity in contemporary Myanmar (Burma). The primary...

DeAnza A. Cook (she/her) began her doctoral studies at Harvard University as a Presidential Scholar in the fall of 2017. Before coming to Harvard, Cook graduated from the University of Virginia as a History Distinguished Major. Cook’s graduate research...

Chrystel Oloukoï is a HMUI graduate fellow and PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. She holds a MA in Geography from the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is an alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. Her...

Jovonna Jones is a PhD candidate in African & African American Studies at Harvard University, with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research interests include social and cultural history, black cultural production in the U...

Michael Allen is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University. He earned a BA from George Washington University in English and Political Science, and a Master’s in English from Oxford University. His work explores the relationship between literary...

Jonathan Karp is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, where he researches protest and performance in the United States from the 20th century to the present. With the support of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Jonathan is...