Senior Common Room
Winthrop's Senior Common Room (SCR) refers to both a physical location and a group of people. The group of people that is Winthrop's SCR comprises scholars and professionals from a diversity of backgrounds as well as the Resident Tutors, Scholars-in-Residence, and various other Winthrop staff.
The SCR enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the Winthrop House community. It helps community members build social and professional networks at Winthrop and beyond through events like the Perini-Woods Memorial SCR Speaker Series. It is a wonderful resource for undergraduates, who are encouraged to engage with and reach out to SCR members.
You can browse the profiles of some of the SCR members below (i.e., those that have opted in to be listed on this website).
The physical Senior Common Room is located in Standish Hall, and is a gathering place for Senior Common Room members.
Interested in knowing more about the SCR? Please reach out to the House Office!
Senior Common Room Members
William P. Alford
Senior Common Room
William P. Alford is Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor, at Harvard Law School where he also is Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. He’s pleased to advise Winthrop students about...
David Armitage
david.armitage1@hotmail.comSenior Common Room
History, art and architecture have been passions for me since I was very young. My interest in the arts led me to become a registered architect and to earn an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. During the...
Elisabeth Battinelli
embattinelli@bwh.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Dr. Elisabeth Battinelli holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, a MSc. from Oxford University and an MD/PhD from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center and was a Chief...
Kate Bean
kate_bean@harvard.eduScholar in Residence
Kate Bean is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. For 18 years she served as the founder/CEO of Aveson, a non-profit organization built to manage charter schools and lead a national movement of personalized K-12 public education...
Jeff Bezanson
jeff.bezanson@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Co-creator of the Julia programming language, co-founder of JuliaHub, Inc. (juliahub.com). My career path began as a Harvard undergrad, where I learned amazing compiler and systems techniques, and yet also how few people seemed to be taking advantage of...
Paul Bottino
Senior Common Room
Non-Resident Tutor
I worked with Harvard student-founders from 2000 to 2025, through the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, which I co-founded, and through my startup course, ES95r: Startup R&D from 2012 to 2025. Helping students discover how they want to...
Paulo Carvão
paulo_carvao@harvard.eduScholar in Residence
Paulo Carvão is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He researches the complexities of AI regulation in the United States to propose a framework that supports rapid technological...
Irene Caselli
irene_caselli@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Irene Caselli is an Italian writer and multimedia journalist now focusing on early childhood, caregivers, and reproductive rights. She runs the The First 1,000 Days newsletter and leads the Early Childhood Journalism Initiative at the Global Center for...
Ben Cosgrove
bcosgrov@post.harvard.eduNon-Resident Tutor
Senior Common Room
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Ben has performed in every U.S. state except for Delaware, collaborated with artists ranging from rock bands to essayists, and held artist...
Serena Danna
serena.danna@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Serena Danna is deputy editor of Open, an Italian digital news outlet focused on fact-checking and aimed at a younger audience. She previously served as deputy editor of Vanity Fair Italia and was an editor and reporter at Corriere della Sera, where she...
Gillian Diercks
gillian_diercks@meei.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Gillian Diercks, MD, MPH is an Instructor in Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training and MPH at Harvard. For the past ten years she has been an attending pediatric otolaryngologist...
Robert Doris
rjd@sauerdo.comSenior Common Room
Along with my wife, Mary Sauer, I’m very much looking forward to joining Winthrop as a member of the SCR. My short story: after graduation from Harvard – AB Government (yes, resident in Winthrop!), JD, MBA – I moved to California to spend a few years at...
Sascha Feldmann
sfeldmann@fas.harvard.eduNon-Resident Tutor
Senior Common Room
The Feldmann Lab at Harvard/EPFL employs light-matter interactions to design the next generation of soft semiconductors with the overarching goal of maximizing energy efficiency for a sustainable future by unlocking applications ranging from flexible...
Bernard Franklin
bfranklinphd@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Dr. Bernard Franklin is a leader in mental wellness. He completed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative in 2022 focusing on urban youth and marginalized communities. He combines psychology, neuroscience, executive leadership, and spiritual practices to...
Gene Freuder
e.freuder@gmail.comSenior Common Room
For a junior high science fair, I built a “machine” that played a variation of Tic Tac Toe. So naturally I went on to a career in Artificial Intelligence. After receiving my B.A. from Harvard, I went down the street to get a Ph.D. at MIT. I spent many...
Benny Goldman
bgoldman@g.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Hey Throp! I was a res tutor from 2019-2024 while doing my PhD in economics at Harvard. Now, I’m an economics professor at Cornell, focusing on economic inequality and intergenerational mobility. I’m always happy to chat with students interested in grad...
John Hanson
jgshanson@gmail.comSenior Common Room
After graduating from Winthrop House in 1980, I spent the first years of my career in politics and public policy in Washington, DC, then made a pivot to an MBA and a twenty-five-year career in strategy consulting. I am currently head of global pricing for...
Stewart (Sandy) Kemp
SWK225@gmail.comSenior Common Room
My affiliation with Winthrop House began as a Pre-Law Adviser and Tutor in Economics. Just prior to that, based on my Harvard College senior thesis, I served as a staff writer and economist on the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force...
Jonathan Kempner
jonathan_kempner@harvard.eduScholar in Residence
Jonathan is a Mignone Center Career Fellow, Counselor to the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and was a 2019 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow ( www.advancedleadership.harvard.edu ). He is President Emeritus of TIGER 21...
Ole Koenig
ole.koenig@cfa.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Ole is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He studies black holes and other phenomena in our universe using space-based X-ray telescopes and machine learning techniques. In Spring 2024, he received his PhD...
David Lebryk
lebryk@msn.comSenior Common Room
I’m spending time at the Kennedy School this year as a Hauser Leader, where I will be leading a study group on government reform. Before stepping down in January, I had a rich and varied 35+ year career at the U.S. Treasury, where I served for the past 10...
Bill LePage
bill_lepage@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Bill LePage is a Senior Fellow in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and a former tech executive at Cisco, Sprinklr and other tech companies, with decades of experience in global leadership, sales, and strategy. A first-generation college graduate...
JP Liang
peter_liang@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
I look forward to connecting with Winthrop students, especially those curious about the intersection of modern technology and ancient wisdom. Currently serving as an Advisor at Harvard Grid, I joined Harvard in 2021 as a Fellow in the Advanced Leadership...
Andrea Marinelli
andrea_marinelli@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Andrea Marinelli is deputy editor of the foreign affairs desk at Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper, where he writes about U.S. politics and society and has co-written a daily military briefing on the war in Ukraine. He is currently a fellow...
Alta Mauro
altamauro@fas.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Dr. Alta Mauro is the Associate Dean of Culture & Community. In this capacity, she guides a team of dedicated practitioners in embodying the University’s community values at the College level, cultivating a pluralistic environment where all undergraduate...
Liz McKenna
emckenna@hks.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Liz McKenna is an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, specializing in social movements and civic engagement across the political spectrum and primarily in the US and Brazil. She has co-authored two books on democratic...
Brian O'Connor
Brianwrightoconnor@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Brian Wright O’Connor, ’78, is a veteran journalist and political operative with a long career spent at the juncture of press, politics and public policy. During his undergraduate years at Harvard College, he lived in Winthrop House, played varsity soccer...
Maureen Page
maureenpage@hks.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Maureen Page is the Associate Director for the Evolving International Order at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. In this role, she directs research on alignment among China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran; Europe and the Transatlantic...
Sean Palfrey
Sean.Palfrey@bmc.orgSenior Common Room
I am emeritus everything now, but once upon a time, and until very recently, was a practicing pediatrician, professor of Pediatrics and Public Health and Faculty Dean of Adams House. We are on the Winthrop House SCR because it’s a wonderful thing to be...
Judy Palfrey
palfrey@fas.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Sometimes we joke and say that Sean and I are almost the same person except that he has a beard. We do have a history of similarly blessed associations with Harvard from the time of our undergraduate careers in the class of 1967. We met at Harvard and...
Ignacio Pereyra
pereyrajuanignacio@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Ignacio “Nacho” Pereyra is an Argentine journalist and father of two, running a bilingual newsletter ( Recalculando / Recalculating) on fatherhood and masculinity inspired by his experience as a primary caregiver. Born in Buenos Aires and having lived...
Jeff Perrotti
jmperrotti@gmail.comNon-Resident Tutor
Senior Common Room
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, I studied Psychology at Northwestern, UCSB, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At Harvard I’ve assisted in teaching Positive Psychology, Human Sexuality, Psychology and Law, Creativity, Adolescent Development...
Richard Phillips
richardgphillips@gmail.comSenior Common Room
My career has spanned public policy, public service and private sector leadership. I have served at the Justice Department and on the Senate Judiciary Committee, focusing on a range of matters including civil rights, technology, and privacy. In 2005, I...
Hong Qu
hong_qu@hks.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Hong Qu is an adjunct lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School teaching classes in data visualization. As a founding engineer on YouTube’s startup team, he designed key features including the channels, video sharing, and skippable ads. He was a visiting Nieman...
Intisar Rabb
Senior Common Room
Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law, a Professor of History, and the faculty director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She has held appointments as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...
Michael Rain
michaelrain@hks.harvard.eduScholar in Residence
Michael Rain is a practitioner fellow-in-residence at Harvard University, jointly at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He is the founder of ENODI, a media and research company...
Joel Ray
jray@westray.comSenior Common Room
As an Army family, we re-stationed 17 times prior to my attending Harvard College (‘73) majoring in marine biology. Work at the IFEM chambers to 1400 feet, culminated in my Harvard thesis: “Role of Multiple Inert Gases in Hyperbaric Diving” and a path to...
Pat Ray
patray@7starclub.orgSenior Common Room
My first career commenced in 1972 when I graduated from nursing school in Philadelphia. As a registered nurse, one of my most notable work experiences was caring for burn children at Shriners Hospital in Boston. Raising a family while completing a juris...
Philippe Reekie
philippe.reekie@cfa.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
I’m the Outreach Manager at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), where I organize public programs, including the popular Public Observatory Nights, and I also serve as a Planetarium Presenter at the Museum of Science, Boston. Having...
Adam Rizika
adam.rizika@gmail.comSenior Common Room
I am a tech entrepreneur, company advisor, investor, FIRST robotics coach and proud husband and father. I am currently working on two start-ups, NT-Tao, focused on cracking the mystery of Fusion and CSF Biosciences, commercializing a medical diagnostic to...
Stephen Peter Rosen
stephenprosen@gmail.comSenior Common Room
Stephen Peter Rosen is the Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University, Senior Counselor at the Long Term Strategy Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy for Strategic Education. He was...
Alexandria Russell
Alexandria_russell@radcliffe.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Dr. Alexandria Russell is a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Curator at Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has previously worked on...
Khatuna Salukvadze
khatuna_salukvadze@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Khatuna Salukvadze is a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Senior Fellow 2024 with Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI). A Georgian diplomat and scholar, she brings to Harvard extensive experience in diplomacy...
Mary Sauer
mary_sauer@harvard.eduSenior Common Room
I look forward to meeting students in Winthrop, especially those who are budding entrepreneurs. I am a tech entrepreneur and a perennial student. Bob Doris, my business partner (and much later, my husband) and I started a company (Sonic Solutions) with a...
Stuart Schechter
stuartschechter@g.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
You know you're a misfit when you’re considered odd within institutions (Harvard) research fields (computer security), and communities (ethical non-monogamy) that attract fellow misfits. For example, I'm a scientist insofar as I conduct scientific...
Jeff Seul
jseul@law.harvard.eduSenior Common Room
Jeff Seul serves as Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Lecturer on the Practice of Peace at Harvard Divinity School, co-chair of the Peace Appeal , and partner and chair of the technology and telecommunications industry group of the international law...
Parker Shipton
shipton@bu.eduSenior Common Room
Professor Parker Shipton’s current and continuing research interests include economic, legal, and symbolic anthropology and the history of social studies. Topics of his research, teaching, and writing have included agriculture, food, and hunger; credit...
Dan Small
dan.small@hklaw.comSenior Common Room
Dan Small (HC ’75, HLS ’79, Winthrop House resident and Resident Tutor) is a partner in Holland & Knight's Miami and Boston offices. He practices in the area of litigation, focusing on witness preparation, dispute strategies, government and internal...
Brian Trelstad
btrelstad@hbs.eduSenior Common Room
Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School
Brian Trelstad is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, teaching social entrepreneurship and impact investing, and is the faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He has spent nearly twenty years in the field of impact...
