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Ya-Wen Lei

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I am a professor in the Department of Sociology. My research interests include law, technology, and socioeconomic development. I regularly teach courses on Law & Society and Contemporary Chinese Society. Outside of work, I enjoy swimming and running.

Adam Mestyan

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I am a historian of the modern Middle East and a retired bass guitarist of a shaman punk band in Eastern Europe. Originally from Budapest (Hungary), I have taught at Oxford, Duke University, and now Harvard, where I am a professor of Middle Eastern...

Irene Peirano Garrison

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I am a Professor in the Classics Department. I teach a wide range of courses in Latin literature (e.g. Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Martial, Cicero), the Latin language (e.g. Latin syntax and stylistics), comparative antiquities, Classics and literary theory...

Hannah Shaffer

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I am an assistant professor at Harvard Law School. My research examines racial disparities in criminal charging and sentencing--specifically how prosecutors interpret and respond to racial disparities inherited from police and earlier decision-makers in...

Richard B. Peiser

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My primary research focuses on developing an understanding of the response of real estate developers to the marketplace and to the institutional environment in which they operate, particularly in the areas of urban redevelopment, affordable housing, and...

Greg Kestin

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I am a Lecturer in the Physics Department and also serve as the Associate Director of Science Education in FAS. I grew up in Ohio and came to Harvard for graduate school, where I earned my Ph.D. as a member of The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature...

Leemore Dafny

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I'm an applied microeconomist studying competition and policy in U.S. healthcare markets. I am a faculty member at HBS and HKS and teach courses on both campuses. I not only lived in Lowell, I married a Lowellian from my class! We left the Boston area for...

Kay K. Shelemay

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I am an ethnomusicologist with particularly strong interests in the theories and methods of musical ethnography. I have carried out research and writing in many locales at home and abroad, including in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian- American diaspora, with...

Yannai Gonczarowski

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and in Computer Science, and an affiliate of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. I teach Economics 1071 aka CS 37, which is a course on how incentives give rise to many...

Alex Chan

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I'm an economist working as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. I am a cat, train, manga and Cantonese food enthusiast. I study how market failures occur, how such failures lead to disparities across demographic groups, and how to design...