Shai M. Dromi

I am a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist with research on international humanitarian organizations and movements, human rights advocacy, religion, and political culture. My research looks at how global organizations and movements emerge, at their international dynamics, and at their interface with nationally-specific institutions and culture. In addition, I look at how organizations, professions, and groups generate beliefs about the common good, and how those beliefs translate into concrete institutional arrangements. I am currently a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, where I teach courses in the areas of organizations, global and transnational sociology, and cultural sociology. 

My book, Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector, is forthcoming in January 2020 at the University of Chicago Press. It examines the origins and development of the humanitarian relief NGO field, and draws on archival research at the International Committee of the Red Cross and related repositories. The book is available for preorder on Amazon.