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...
Isabel Frey Ribeiro entered the History PhD program in 2025. She specializes in Modern Europe and the US and is especially interested in the constraints on speech imposed within liberal societies. She explores the ways censorship, education, and democracy...
Alice Diniz is a Brazilian researcher who entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall 2025. Prior to Harvard, she earned a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master's degree in Social History, both from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Her research...
Majula Swareh joined the program in Fall 2025. Her research centers on the social histories of war and memory in The Gambia, with a particular focus on colonial soldiering during the First and Second World Wars. She is especially interested in public...
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...
Born and raised in Bogotá, Tomás joined the Department of History at Harvard University as a doctoral student in 2024. Tomás specializes in Latin American contemporary history with a particular focus on Colombia.
His research interests comprise popular...
Cameron Hollenbeck entered Harvard’s history PhD program in Fall 2024. He specializes in modern Japanese history with a focus on the Japanese Empire. His research centers multi-ethnic communities and ideologies of race and antisemitism in Japanese...