Current Fellows
Graduate
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Tarun Chhabra is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Oxford University. His dissertation draws on theories of law and expertise to explore empirical and normative dimensions of fact-finding in international organizations. His broader interests include public law, the emergence of new international institutions and regimes, and the relationship between international relations theory and foreign policy decision-making. A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and Marshall Scholar, he is a graduate of Stanford University, Merton College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He has worked for the United Nations, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and Freedom Now, which works to free prisoners of conscience.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Johann Frick is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, specializing in normative ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy. His current research focuses on the ethics of risk-imposition and the alienability of rights ex ante. He has been a teaching fellow for courses in political philosophy, contemporary ethical theory, bioethics, and the ethics of war. Before coming to Harvard, he read for the BPhil in Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, and was a pensionnaire étranger at the École normale supérieure in Paris. As an undergraduate, he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St. John's College, Oxford.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Adriane Gelpi is a PhD candidate in Health Policy with a concentration in ethics. Her primary academic interests center on the ethics and history of public health, specifically regarding issues of procedural justice and resource allocation for health policy in developing countries. She has worked on public health projects in India, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico. Her dissertation examines priority setting for HIV and mental health policy in Mexico from the perspective of ethics, history and quantitative analysis. She holds an MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and an AB degree, magna cum laude, in History and Science from Harvard University. Her fieldwork in Mexico has been funded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She is a recipient of the Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship and a past recipient of traineeships from the National Institute of Mental Health.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
David Langlois is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy. He has research interests in normative ethics, practical reason and rationality. His dissertation investigates the relationship between the requirements of rationality (such as the requirement to take the means to one's ends) and other normative requirements (such as the requirements of morality). He has a BA and an MA in Philosophy from Queen's University in Canada. While at Harvard, he has served as a teaching fellow for classes on moral theory, political philosophy, epistemology, and the requirements of rationality.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Emma Saunders-Hastings is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. Her interests include normative democratic theory, theories of distributive justice and inequality, and the relationship between public and private power. Her dissertation examines philanthropy as a problem for political as well as for ethical theory: it treats philanthropy as one way in which private money may shape public options and asks what kinds of regulation of philanthropy are appropriate. She holds a BA (Honours) in Political Studies from Queen's University in Canada and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Commonwealth Scholar.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Mira Siegelberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of History. Her primary academic interests concern the history of human rights and international political thought, especially debates in the twentieth century over rights theory and ideas of international order. Her dissertation reconstructs the effects of statelessness on postwar political thought and international relations theory. She has served as a teaching fellow in courses on European intellectual history and philosophical responses to the Holocaust. She holds a BA, summa cum laude, in history and human rights from Columbia University.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Gabriel Wollner just completed his PhD in Philosophy at University College London and is now studying for a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His academic interests are in political philosophy and ethics, and the application of these inquiries to various issues in public policy. His current research is about individual obligations of justice under non-ideal conditions. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and an MPhil in Political Theory, both from the University of Oxford.
- Graduate Fellow, 2011-2012
Bernardo Zacka is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His primary interests lie at the intersection of political theory, social theory, and political anthropology. His dissertation draws on empirical and normative debates to examine the role of moral judgment in the everyday work of street-level bureaucrats, and to suggest how we could account for it in a normative theory of the state. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Prior to coming to Harvard, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Company in New York, serving clients in the banking, pharmaceutical, and telecom sectors.