Graduate Students
Jesse Robertson
jrobertson@g.harvard.edu Jesse Robertson entered the History PhD program in the Fall of 2023. His research interests include the history of the United States in the world, militarization, and how imperial encounters shape politics and culture.
Rachelle Rodriguez
rachellerodriguez@g.harvard.edu Rachelle Rodriguez entered the History PhD program in 2024. She studies twentieth-century global history with a regional specialization in Oceania. Her research interests revolve around the complexities of defining state sovereignty and the link between...
Will Sack
sack@g.harvard.edu Will Sack’s research centers on the environmental and social history of Japan’s modern empire, especially its post-1945 afterlives. His main project looks at rural life within the modernization campaigns of America’s Cold War client states: South Korea...
Sarah Sadlier
sadlier@g.harvard.edu Sarah Sadlier is a History PhD Candidate with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. As an undergraduate at Stanford, she quadruple majored in American Studies with Honors, History with Honors, Iberian and Latin American Cultures...
Noah Secondo
noahsecondo@g.harvard.edu Noah Secondo joined the History Department’s Ph.D. program in 2023. His research focuses on the relationship between social movements and the law in the United States. Previously, he studied how American artists traveled around the world to advocate for...
Itai Segre
isegre@g.harvard.edu Itai entered the History PhD program at Harvard in the fall of 2024. His scholarly interests include Israel’s foreign reach, particularly in Latin America during The Cold War and its afterlife. Itai seeks to trace economic and class dynamics in the post...
Saffron Hooper Sener
saffronsener@g.harvard.edu Saffron Hooper Sener (she/her) is a feminist scholar of Great Lakes environmental history in her third-year at Harvard. She focuses on histories of gender, sexuality, and the body as they intersect with the unique ecologies of the region and the American...
Elena Shadrina
shadrina@g.harvard.edu Elena began her PhD in History in the Fall of 2018. She specializes in the Central Middle Ages, and is especially interested in Italian legal and economic history. Before beginning her graduate work at Harvard, Elena obtained her B.A. in History and M.A...
Victoria Soto Estremera
vsotoestremera@fas.harvard.edu Victoria Soto Estremera entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall of 2024. Her work examines gender relationships, U.S. imperialism, and nation-building in twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was a fellow in the Bridge to the...
Honora Spicer
hspicer@g.harvard.edu Honora Spicer is a place-based educator, poet, literary translator, and Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She researches US/Mexico borderlands history, with an interest in migration, the carceral state, infrastructure and...
Willa Stonecipher
willastonecipher@g.harvard.edu Willa Stonecipher entered the PhD program in 2025. As a medievalist, she is particularly fascinated by monasticism and the cult of saints, especially religious women. At Harvard, she hopes to study the environmental history of female monasticism in...
