Graduate Students
Felipe Alfonso
felipe_alfonso@g.harvard.edu Felipe is a PhD student in the History Department at Harvard University since 2019, specializing on Atlantic Slavery, Capitalism, Brazil, 19th century, Global History, and Social History. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in History and a Master's Degree in...
Hanna Alshaikh (HMES)
halshaikh@g.harvard.edu Hanna Alshaikh is a researcher of Arab and Palestinian intellectual history in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD program. Her research examines the role of the Palestinian diaspora in Arab world political discourse, with a special focus on...
Keziah Anderson
Keziah Anderson is a PhD student in United States History. She has completed the Secondary Field in African and African American Studies.
Clare Anderson
cbanderson@g.harvard.edu Clare Anderson entered the history PhD program in 2018. Her specialization is Modern Europe. Clare’s research focuses include the British Empire, the Indian Ocean, and environmental history. She is especially interested in the intersection of empire and...
Francesco Anselmetti (HMES)
fanselmetti@g.harvard.edu Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work...
Gayane Ayvazyan (HMES)
gayvazyan@g.harvard.edu Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...
Mitchell Bacci (HMES)
mbacci@g.harvard.edu Mitch Bacci is a PhD candidate in Harvard's joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. His research and teaching explore the social and political histories of state formation, informal economies, psychoactive substances, and public health. His...
Saaleh Baseer
saalehbaseer@g.harvard.edu Saaleh entered as a doctoral candidate in Harvard's joint History & Middle Eastern program in 2023. His interests are housed in the Hanafi legal regime and Islamic constitutional law in the post-classical era in Iran and Mughal India and their...
Mahia Bashir
mahiabashir@g.harvard.edu Mahia entered the History PhD program in 2022. She studies South Asia and its global entanglements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with broader interests in the Islamic world and the British Empire. Kashmir is what she calls home. She holds a BA...
