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.

Henry Austin

Henry Austin is the Program Manager and a Fellow in the STS Program. Previously, he was a Research Associate with the Global Observatory for Genome Editing. Henry holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where he studied Social Studies with a Secondary Field in Computer Science before graduating in 2023.

Nathan Davies

Nathan Davies is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School. His research examines how emerging technologies reshape political order, drawing on Science and Technology Studies, law, and the history of science to inform debates in public policy and AI governance.

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.

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. The aim is to better understand what futures of age manipulation are being imagined and by whom. She also examines how knowledge is produced and justified in this field, what hopes, fears, risk, and uncertainties are reflected, and what changes in our understanding of biological life may emerge from this field.

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.

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.

Jordan Thomas

Jordan Thomas is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and 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. His current research interests surround national framings of science and technology within global orders: how ideas of national interests and security are naturalised, how global orders are constructed, and how notions of ownership and sovereignty are stabilised and contested on national and international levels. His doctoral research seeks to engage China through a comparative lens, bringing together aspects of STS, law, IR, and East Asian studies.