Graduate Students

Ozkan entered the joint History & Middle Eastern Studies PhD program in 2018. His broad interests include early modern Middle East, social, cultural and religious history of the Ottoman Empire, nonconformist religious movements, Alevi-Bektashi and Akhi...

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...

Thomas Blakeslee entered the Ph.D. program in 2018. A UC Berkeley graduate, his scholarly interests include the African Diaspora in the United States, resistance movements, family histories, gender, and masculinities. Thomas’s dissertation centers on...

Sudarshana entered the PhD program in 2018. She works on race, law, and intimacy in South and Southeast Asia. 

 

Her dissertation, “Imaginary Boundaries: Race and Inter-ethnic Intimacy in British Malaya, 1920-1960” studies the intimate life of racial...

Abdelrahman Mahmoud entered the dual PhD program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2018. His previous research examined questions of imperial formation and intellectual exchanges in the early modern East Mediterranean. At Harvard, he plans to study...

Franco Paz entered the PhD program in 2018. His research centers on the interconnected histories of race, capitalism, and the environment, with a particular focus on the 18th century Caribbean and Eastern Seaboard. 

Franco holds a BA from the State...

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...

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Born and raised in Bolivia, Adriana earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies from Grinnell College in 2017. In 2018 she joined Harvard’s PhD program in History, where she studies colonial Latin America. Her current research combines...