Elissa Berwick
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Nationalism, identity, European politics, comparative political behavior, quantitative methods.
Postdoctoral Fellows
The Watson Institute offers a range of postdoctoral opportunities for outstanding young scholars in the social sciences. The aims of the program are to support participants in their own research, enhance their interdisciplinary literacy and contribute to meaningful and enduring collaborative exchange.
Chase Michael Foster
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Political economy of regulation, Political development of the regulatory state, European Union, Comparative public policy, European public opinion.
- +1 401 863 9072
Sahana Ghosh
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Borders and borderlands; migration and mobility; militarization; modern south Asia; transnational feminism; labor and citizenship; and agrarian studies.
- +1 401 863 9201
Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Areas of Interest: Education, race and social policy, history of education, Federal education policies, punishment, policing, school discipline.
- +1 401 863 9750
Aileen Teague
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Histories of the United States and Latin America, U.S.-Mexican Relations, Drug Control, Interventionism, Militarization, Political Violence, Immigration, Borderlands
- +1 401 863 6994
- aileen_teague@brown.edu
Dario Valles
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: North & Central America; Comparative Migration; Latinx & Black Diasporas; Racial Formation; Gender and Queer Studies; Political Economy; Social Movements; Childhood/Youth, Ethnography.
- +1 401 863 7442
- dario_valles@brown.edu
Benjamin D. Weber
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Transnational history, carceral studies, international legal and political thought, comparative colonialism and anticolonialism, social movements, racism and antiracism, policing and prisons, state violence, inequality, archives, public memory, new media.
- +1 401 863 9073
- benjamin_d_weber@brown.edu
Luyang Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative historical sociology, empire, nationalism, revolution, Russia and China.
- +1 401 863 6915
- luyang_zhou@brown.edu