Shelby Carvalho is a PhD candidate in Government studying Comparative Politics and Political Economy with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Her dissertation project examines on the political economy of refugee inclusion in low- and middle-income countries. Shelby’s academic interests are shaped by more than a decade of professional experience in education and international development. She has worked as a teacher, as a researcher with the World Bank and Center for Global Development, and as a political economy analyst for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). At Harvard, Shelby is an affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, and the REACH Initiative. Externally, she’s an education expert with the Center for Global Development, a Fulbright recipient, an affiliate of the REAL Centre at Cambridge University and Innovations for Poverty Action, and is a visiting scholar with J-PAL Africa.
Contact
scarvalho1@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Comparative Politics | International Relations
Academic Interests
Education Policy | Gender | International Organizations | Migration | Political Economy & Development
Research Methods
Experiments | Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Africa