Harris Elected Vice Chair of International Studies Association’s Global Health Section

Joseph Harris, an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently elected Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s (ISA) Global Health Studies Section. The ISA’s Global Health Studies Section “aims to make the ISA the global hub for all those engaged in the study of global health politics in all its dimensions” by facilitating research collaboration, disseminating global health research to policymakers, and offering scholars from across disciplines a hub for advancing their work on global health politics.

As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, Prof. Harris is organizing a workshop series on the politics of global health, bringing together leading social scientists to advance understanding of health phenomena in a globally interconnected world. The series will build upon Prof. Harris’s previous work as a Faculty Research Fellow from 2015-2018, when he convened a two-day Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences, bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists working to create new research pathways on global health. A conference report summarizing the results of the symposium was published by the Pardee Center in 2018.