Current Fellows
Graduate
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Sean Gray is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests include democratic theory, international relations, theories of the welfare state, and public engagement. He also has minor interests in the philosophy of language, pragmatism and the history of political thought. His dissertation focuses on designing democratic institutions to be more sensitive to problems of silence in civil society. He has previously worked on public education and climate change policy, ethnicity and democratic governance, as well as Canadian inter-governmental relations. A SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, Sean received his B.A. (Hons) in Political Studies from Queen’s University in 2007.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Kenneally is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His research lies at the intersection of law and philosophy, with a particular focus on the role that moral concepts and principles play in legal institutions. Michael's dissertation examines possible justifications for intellectual property, including both natural rights and consequentialist arguments. He holds an AB in philosophy from Princeton University as well as a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Matthews is a doctoral (SJD) candidate at Harvard Law School. Her primary academic interests are in international law, specifically at the intersection of criminal law, the law of war, and human rights law. Her dissertation undertakes a genealogy of the concept of international criminality, and seeks to theorize international criminal law from the point of view of the political. Heidi has experience in domestic criminal defense, and has worked for the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. She holds a BA from Mount Allison University, an LLB-BCL from McGill University, and an LLM (waived) from Harvard Law School. She is the recipient of a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship from the Canadian Council on International Law. While at Harvard, she has served as a teaching fellow for classes on gender and war, genocide, modern international conflict, and ethics and international relations.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Morain is a PhD candidate in Health Policy, with a concentration in ethics. Her primary research interests are in the ethics of public health, with a particular focus on the appropriate role of government to address health challenges. Her dissertation examines the legitimate scope of government authority to address non-communicable disease, using both survey methodology and normative analysis. Her empirical work on public health legitimacy has been funded by the Greenwall Foundation. She is a graduate of the MPH program in History and Ethics at Columbia University and the Biology and History, Government, and Law programs at Lafayette College (AB; summa cum laude). She has served as a teaching fellow for several courses in public health ethics, as well as the doctoral-level seminar in health policy.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Prescott-Couch is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on issues at the intersection of philosophy of social science, ethics, and political philosophy. He also has interests in nineteenth and twentieth century German thought. At Harvard, he has taught courses in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. A graduate of Columbia University, he studied at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on a Graduate Fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Hollie Russon Gilman holds a PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University and an AB from the University of Chicago with highest honors in Political Science. Her research interests include the impact of technology on government transparency and accountability, citizen engagement, and implementing democratic innovations. Her dissertation, "The Participatory Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting Comes to America," examines the largest implementation of Participatory Budgeting in the United States during the pilot project year in New York City. In this dissertation, she outlines the promise and perils of bringing Participatory Budgeting, a United Nations and World Bank "best practice" for development, from the Global South to the Democratic North. In addition to her visiting Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship, she is a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Innovation and Governance at the Kennedy School where she works as a member of Harvard's Transparency Policy Project (TPP). She was previously awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Su is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. Her primary academic interests concern U.S. and comparative constitutional law, extraterritoriality of legal norms, and the law and history of religious freedom and human rights. Her dissertation is a history of the official exportation of American ideas about religious freedom in various laws governing religious liberty at home and abroad. She has served as a teaching fellow for courses on constitutional law, political Islam and ethics and international relations. She completed the LLM program at Harvard Law School, and holds a BA in Political Science and a JD from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked as a law clerk for a former Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, and was a consultant to the Philippine government negotiating panel in its peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
- Graduate Fellow, 2012-2013
Tivig is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. Her primary interests lie in contemporary political theory, especially democratic theory and theories of migration. Her dissertation examines the parallels in the case for and against the freedom of movement domestically and across borders. She is a recipient of the Graduate Fellowship in the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics. Andrea holds a BA (honours) in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Harvard, she took part in the Euromasters Programme leading to an MA in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.