Our team comes from a range of backgrounds — with researchers coming from sociology, public health, political science, and data science as well as community organizing and political advocacy. People join us at different phases of their academic journey, from undergraduates and graduate students, to postdocs and faculty. Please visit our Partner with Us page to understand more about joining our team.

Directors:

Hahrie Han, Faculty Director
Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute
Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Jane Booth-Tobin, Lab Director


Researchers/Project Teams:

Lynsy Smithson-Stanley
Graduate Student
Jae Yeon Kim Jae Yeon Kim 
Research Fellow
Milan DeVries
Mapping the Modern
Agora Project Director
Kristine Lu
Postdoctoral fellow

Alexandra Dildine
Graduate student

Matthew Denney
Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Undergraduate Students or Research Assistants:

Maya Jenkins

Lab Alumni:

Former Graduate Students & Post-Docs

Aaron Sparks

Adam Burston

Amanda Brush

Arianna Genis

Avi McClelland-Cohen

Ben Manski

B. Kal Munis

Elizabeth Jordie Davies

Elizabeth McKenna

Elliot Finn

Geoffrey Henderson 

Jae Yeon Kim

Jeff Feng

Maneesh Arora

Mariah Brennan-Clegg 

Melanie Brazzell

Michelle Oyakawa

Naomi Joseph

Sonia Sarkar

William Haywood Carey

Former Undergraduates

Amanda Yuen

Anna Song

Catherine Weatherly

Claudia Alegre

Daniel Cortes 

Devin Green

Elizabeth Szulc

Haadiya Ahmed

Jessica Ange

Joseph Heide

Kate Bell

Leslie Irwin

Paige MacPherson

Ryann Schutt

Sami Ghanem

Stella Lee 

Maya Smith