Patricia Agupusi
Professorial Lecturer School of International Service at American University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Former Watson Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
The Watson Intitute for International and Public Affairs former Postdoctoral Fellows are listed below. For a list of our current fellows please go to current fellows. For information about applying to the Watson Postdoctoral program please go to our program information page.
Rawan Arar
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2018-2019, 2021-2022
Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington
Areas of Interest: International migration, refugee studies, law, human rights, race and ethnicity, gender, inequality, conflict and post-conflict societies
Narges Bajoghli
Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2016-2018
Nicholas Barnes
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2017-2019
Areas of Interest: Organized Crime, Political Violence, Public Security, Urban Development, Social Movements, Latin America.
Elissa Berwick
Assistant Professor of Comparative Political Behavior at McGill University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
Areas of Interest: Nationalism, identity, European politics, comparative political behavior, quantitative methods.
Magda Boutros
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2020-2021
Areas of Interest: Social movements, policing, criminology, race and ethnicity, law and society
Jori Breslawski
Lecturer, Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2020-2021
Areas of Interest: Political Violence, Rebel Governance, Civilian Agency in War, Aid and Conflict
Jordan Camp
Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
Co-Director, Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Julia Chuang
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Christopher Clary
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2016
Jeremy Ferwerda
Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2016
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy, immigration, decentralization, social policy, European politics
Chase Michael Foster
Research Associate/Lecturer, Chair for International Relations, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University Munich
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2021
Areas of Interest: Political economy of regulation, Political development of the regulatory state, European Union, Comparative public policy, European public opinion.
Janice Gallagher
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Sahana Ghosh
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Borders and borderlands; migration and mobility; militarization; modern south Asia; transnational feminism; labor and citizenship; and agrarian studies.
Jennifer Greenburg
THINK postdoctoral fellow and scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2016-2018
Areas of Interest: Critical human geography, development studies, humanitarianism, US militarism, Haiti, gender.
Michelle Jurkovich
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Ali Kadivar
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Areas of Interest: Political sociology, comparative historical analysis, social movements, revolutions, protests & repression, democratization, Middle East politics, Iran
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative Politics, State Building, Development, Politics of Religion, Middle East and North Africa
Deepak Lamba-Nieves
Research Director & Churchill G. Carey, Jr. Chair in Economic Development Research at the Center for a New Economy
Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate Planning School
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Areas of Interest: the migration-development nexus, hometown associations, post-disaster planning and housing
Yalidy Matos
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2015-2017
Eoin McGuirk
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Rahul Mediratta
Manager, Organizational Change and Behavior, Deloitte
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2016-2018
Almita Miranda
Assistant Professor of Geography and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2017-2019
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2017-2019
Areas of Interest: Cultural anthropology, political geography, race/ethnicity, gender, neoliberalism, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, borders/boundaries, social movements, Latinx mixed-status families, U.S., Mexico
Duff Morton
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Jonas Nahm
Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Yusuf Neggers
Assistant Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2016-2018
Mahasan Offutt-Chaney
Assistant Professor in the Education Department, Brown University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2019-2021
Areas of Interest: Education, race and social policy, history of education, Federal education policies, punishment, policing, school discipline.
Atul Pokharel
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2016
Anthony Pratcher II
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Relations, 2017-2019
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2017-2019
Areas of Interest: American history, American Southwest, metropolitan studies, spatial analysis, identity construction, community formation, civic governance, urban policy.
Aalyia Sadruddin
Assistant Professor of Cultural Medical Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
Areas of Interest: Demographic transformations; political culture; post-conflict recovery, security and governance; Central-East Africa (Rwanda)
Aarti Sethi
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2017-2019
Areas of Interest: South-Asia, agrarian anthropology, feminist anthropology, political economy, rural life worlds, media, cinema and visual culture.
Elena Shih
Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University
Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Sociology, East Asian Studies, and Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2014-2015
Lucas Stanczyk
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2016-2017
Aileen Teague
Assistant Professor of International Affairs Education, The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
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
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2017-2019
Areas of Interest: Labor and social movements, democratization, crime and incarceration, quantitative methods.
Dario Valles
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2018-2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Race and Ethnicity, 2018-2020
Areas of Interest: North & Central America; Comparative Migration; Latinx & Black Diasporas; Racial Formation; Gender and Queer Studies; Political Economy; Social Movements; Childhood/Youth, Ethnography.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Assistant Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 2015-16, 2018-19
Yingyao Wang
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia Sociology Department
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Areas of Interest: Economic and Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Sociology of Development
Benjamin D. Weber
Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
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.
Elizabeth Williams
Assistant Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Lowell
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2015-2017
Areas of Interest: History of the Modern Middle East; Ottoman History, Environmental, economic, and social history.
Madeline Woker
Visiting Assistant Professori n the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2019-2020
Areas of Interest: Colonialism, fiscal history, French colonial history, racial capitalism, international taxation, history of inequality
Luyang Zhou
Associate Professor in Sociology at Zhejiang University
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2018-2020
Areas of Interest: Comparative historical sociology, empire, nationalism, revolution, Russia and China.