Rawan Arar
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International migration, refugee studies, law, human rights, race and ethnicity, gender, inequality, conflict and post-conflict societies.
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.
Nicholas Barnes
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Organized Crime, Political Violence, Public Security, Urban Development, Social Movements, Latin America.
- +1 319 440 2766
- nicholas_barnes@brown.edu
Jennifer Greenburg
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Critical human geography, development studies, humanitarianism, US militarism, Haiti, gender.
- +1 401 863 9740
- jennifer_greenburg@brown.edu
Almita Miranda
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Cultural and political anthropology, race/ethnicity, gender, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, social movements, Latina/o mixed-status families, U.S., Mexico.
- +1 401 863 2216
- almita_miranda@brown.edu
Anthony Pratcher II
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Relations
Areas of Interest: American history, American Southwest, metropolitan studies, spatial analysis, identity construction, community formation, civic governance, urban policy.
Aarti Sethi
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: South-Asia, anthropology, agrarian change, peasant studies, social movements, cinema, media and visual culture.
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
Adaner Usmani
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Labor and social movements, democratization, crime and incarceration, quantitative methods.
Dario Valles
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Public/private infrastructures, race, feminist theory, children/youth, intimate labor, social movements, political economy, Latin American migration and diaspora, anthropology of the Americas, household ethnography.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Information technology and development, governance, politics of transparency and surveillance, inequality, civic technology, social theory, political economy of development.
Luyang Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative historical sociology, empire, nationalism, revolution, Russia and China.