Resident Dean

AWRD

Andrea Wright

Allston Burr Resident Dean, Eliot House
Assistant Dean of Harvard College
Lecturer in Anthropology

Hello Eliot! I am thrilled to start my fifth year as Resident Dean of Eliot House. I am joined at Eliot by my husband, Ajay Sonalkar, and our eight-year-old son, Ziv.

I grew up in a tiny town (population=2500!) in rural Missouri (in case you were wondering, yes there were definitely more cows than people). I completed my B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Science at Lawrence University and an M.A. in Development Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. Before joining Harvard I was based in Providence, RI where I completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at Brown University and developed a love for Del’s Lemonade. In what feels like another life (i.e. pre- Ph.D.) I spent many years living and working in South Korea where I taught courses on Leadership and Social Activism and served as the International Student Advisor at the Ulsan National Institute for Science and Technology (UNIST). 

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