Current Fellows

Aishani Aatresh

Aishani Aatresh is a PhD student in Public Policy and Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work concerns the ways in which non-governmental actors come to undertake the work of governments and reshape democratic practices through the development of science and technology, especially in the domain of health.

Iosepho Cavaliere

Iosepho Cavaliere is a Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology & Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research examines how numbers intersect with political decision-making and how knowledge is produced and mobilised for political purposes. His current work focuses on migration and labour statistics, exploring how the measurement and classification of skills and mobility shape policy and the circulation of talent.

T.J. Foley

T.J. Foley is a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on the political, economic, and constitutional implications of emerging technologies. He combines archival and ethnographic work to examine how the rights and entitlements afforded in democratic governments are reconstituted via digital technologies.

Yvonne Frankfurth

Yvonne Frankfurth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Harvard Kennedy School. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. A sociologist of reproduction, technology, and the state, she studies how states govern the beginnings of life through law and reproductive technologies, and how these practices shape, and are shaped by, moral and political understandings of life, family, and desirable futures. Her current research spans cross-border fertility care, AI-based donor matching, and polygenic embryo screening.

Anthony Garciano

Anthony Garciano is a PhD student in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Fellow in the STS program. He examines how educational policies, schools as technologies, and competing definitions of science collectively shape national visions of the Philippines.

Lou Lennad

Lou Lennad is a PhD candidate in Public Policy on the Science, Technology and Policy Studies track at Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to being a Fellow in the STS Program, she is a graduate student affiliate of the Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Oliwia Mandrela

Oliwia Mandrela is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her research explores visions of futures linked to the development of longevity biotechnology in the US and China.

Conor McGlynn

Conor McGlynn is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a 2020-2021 Fulbright Scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and a 2019-2020 Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing and previously worked in EU affairs in Brussels. He holds degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin.

Gopala Miron

Gopala is a doctoral student in Public Administration and Government at the São Paulo School of Business Administration, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EAESP). Her research examines climate uncertainty and data production across centers of expertise and grassroots organizations. She holds a doctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), affiliated with the FGV Earth Center.

Hilton Simmet

Hilton Simmet is a Lecturer in Political Science associated with the Program of Environmental Studies at Yale University and an affiliate of the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School. His work concerns the role of political culture in influencing how economics frames and informs public policy and solves social problems.

Raina Talwar Bhatia

Raina Talwar Bhatia is a PhD student in Public Policy on the Science, Technology, and Policy track. She is interested in exploring how scientists and policymakers communicate about dual-use biological research and how the same categories of experiments are governed differently across various national contexts.

Jordan Thomas

Jordan Thomas holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a Fellow in the STS Program at Harvard Kennedy School. His research examines how people experience, conceptualize, and navigate climate change, as well as the social, political, and economic structures that shape climate impacts and distribute their consequences unevenly.

Justin Wong

Justin Wong is a PhD candidate in Science, Technology and Policy Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a JD student in Harvard Law School. He researches geopolitics and science and technology through the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and critical legal theory.