#  About 

 



 The Harvard Writing Project is a service of the Harvard College Writing Program that supports excellence in writing instruction throughout Harvard College.

 **DIRECTOR**

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 **James Herron**, Director of the Harvard Writing Project (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan)  
<jherron@fas.harvard.edu>  
Fields: Cultural and linguistic anthropology, Latin America, Andes

 

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 **FACULTY ASSOCIATES**

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  **Tad Davies** (Ph.D., English from University of California, Irvine)

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 Field: American Literature  
Research and Writing Interests: political novels, history and theory of the novel, American studies

 

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  **Shannon Monaghan (Ph.D., History, Boston College)**  
<shannonmonaghan@fas.harvard.edu>Field: Modern European History  
Research and Writing Interests**:** War and society, secularization and resacralization, population politics, the development of democracy, and human rights

 

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  **Jonah Johnson** (Ph.D., German and Comparative Literatures, University of Michigan)  
<jmjohns@fas.harvard.edu>  
Fields: German Studies and Comparative Literature  
Research and Writing Interests: Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment German literature and philosophy , lyric, genre theory, reception of classical antiquity

 

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  **Donna Mumme** (Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University)  
<mumme@fas.harvard.edu>  
Field: Developmental Psychology  
Research and Writing Interests: Emotional development, social cognition, neuropsychological assessment, and developmental disabilities; children's literature.

 

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  **Richard Joseph Martin** (Ph.D., Anthropology, Princeton University)  
<rmartin01@fas.harvard.edu>  
Research and Writing Interests: agency, education, ethnography, magic, phenomenology, play, popular culture, privacy, queer theory, ritual, semiotics, sexuality, and space.

 

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  **Ramyar Rossoukh** (Ph.D., Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)  
<rossoukh@fas.harvard.edu>

 Field: Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies  
Research and Writing Interests**:** Iran, Middle East, film and media studies, critical theory, outer space