https://www.shelbycarvalho.com/welcome daily 1.0 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/ee232610-dd52-4d82-8016-d852e152ee37/IMG_1797+copy.jpg Welcome - Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University with the King Center on Global Development. I am an affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab, the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, and am a non-resident scholar with the Refugee REACH Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I received my PhD in Political Science at Harvard University in May 2025. I study the political economy of development and comparative politics in Africa with a focus on education, migration, public policy, and governance. My dissertation project examined the sociopolitical dilemmas that characterize refugee integration in national education systems. Using cross-national quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods, I show that policy and practice are mediated by distinct processes and politics. I introduce the concept of ‘Quiet Inclusion’ to describe a common phenomenon in which the de facto inclusion of refugees in public services exceeds what is protected through de jure laws and policies. In my applied work, I use experimental, quasi-experimental, and survey methods to examine the social, political, and economic impacts of policies on children and communities. My research has been published in World Development, Development Policy Review, The Journal of Refugee Studies, and the Journal on Education in Emergencies, as well as in popular media and policy outlets. I have received numerous competitive grants including two Fulbright fellowships (2012 - 2013; 2022 - 2023), a Radcliffe Fellowship (2024-2025), and funding from the ReCIPE programme, the Displaced Livelihoods Initiative, the Weiss Fund for Development Economics, the International Rescue Committee’s Airbel Impact Lab, as well as from various centers at Harvard. I am the 2023 winner of Jeanne Block Humphrey Dissertation Award from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. My academic interests are shaped by more than a decade of professional and policy experience as a teacher as well as with the World Bank, UNHCR, the Education Commission, the Center for Global Development, among others. Education: PhD in Political Science (Government), Harvard University Master of Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education Master of Global Policy Studies, UT Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs BA in Government & Humanities (Honors), University of Texas at Austin https://www.shelbycarvalho.com/research-writing daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Research | Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Research | Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Research | Writing https://www.shelbycarvalho.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/d21ae3a6-5804-484c-83d7-2fd499b8c3cf/Walking+home.jpg Teaching - Children walking home from school, Amhara Region, Ethiopia https://www.shelbycarvalho.com/work-consulting daily 0.75 2025-11-01 https://www.shelbycarvalho.com/not-work daily 0.75 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/1664331e-7ab8-4a1e-96aa-956c192f4e52/hwihc_pd2021_-089.jpg Not Work Harvard Women's Ice Hockey Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/be34999b-da52-435c-a4c6-18cf07ca9ea3/DAA62EE1-E3EB-4A0B-B82F-FA36791AA05B.jpeg Not Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/1652023006416-K05SH02ND81749HSGYYE/BF3AD609-AD77-4BDB-962B-2832BA1E5D50.jpg Not Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/e76b3b0c-5c9c-482d-a3ac-3a0ed4f8823b/IMG_1447.jpg Not Work Harvard University Figure Skating team performing in the 2022 'An Evening with Champions' benefit show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/a448d379-5e5f-4b03-a8d6-f35f631d53b5/hwihc_pd2021_-017.jpg Not Work Ice Hockey 2021 - 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/1652023132164-LJZKZU050NQLRQNP70BV/ADT_5675.jpg Not Work US Figure Skating Adult Eastern Sectional Championships https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6277c7ca7eec8f4575b36d52/092d7233-826c-4fc8-8913-f66829b216d0/BDFE2276-EBDB-4E2A-A410-74CCE3FC6110_1_201_a.jpeg Not Work Liechtenstein Alpine Marathon