Marten Dondorp is a PhD student in Global History, specializing in the history of capitalism in the British and Dutch empires. His current research focuses on the intersections between state-building, logistics, and environments, tracing how colonial...
Rebecca Wu joined Harvard’s Ph.D. program in History and East Asian Languages in the fall of 2025. She graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in History, magna cum laude (2025). Her senior thesis, which examined petitioning practices in late...
Downie-Greenidge is a PhD student studying environmental history, who entered the program in the Fall of 2025. In 2022, Downie graduated with distinction from Temple University’s Honors Program, earning a Bachelor’s degree in history, and was a recipient...
Kayla Wilford entered the PhD program at Harvard in 2025, specializing in the social and cultural history of early-modern Japan. Her scholarly interests lie in the writing of historical imagination, focused on stories of the silenced, oppressed, and...
Michelle Ong is a doctoral student whose research concerns the legal dimensions of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial thought. Her current work focuses on the ways that colonial seafarers engaged with law and international legal institutions in the...
Mia Jodorcovsky joined Harvard’s History PhD program in Fall of 2025. She specializes in Latin American history, with a focus on nineteenth-century Argentina.
Her research explores slavery, fugitivity, and the social networks forged by enslaved women who...
Ahmet Demirel entered the PhD program in the Department of History at Harvard University in 2025. His research focuses on the political and administrative structures of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with particular attention to provincial governance...
Rohan was admitted to Harvard’s PhD programme in History in 2025. His interdisciplinary work spans global intellectual history, historical international relations and theory from the South. He is interested in using historical methods beyond studying...
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...