People

George Aumoithe

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 George Aumoithe, BA (Bowdoin), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia), RYT-200 (Yoga Alliance), is a scholar-artist and historian of the 20th century United States. Professor Aumoithe joins Harvard as a tenure-track Assistant Professor...

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...

Ernst Badian

Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Emeritus, was one of the world’s most eminent ancient historians. Appointed to the Department of History in 1971, and by courtesy a voting member of the Department of the Classics in 1973, he became...

Bernard Bailyn

Professor Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, died on Friday, August 7, 2020. Professor Bailyn joined the faculty in 1954, served as Department chair 1970-72...

Stephen Barchick '09

Field: Infantry Officer at United States Marine Corps Thesis Title: "Thomas Arnold and the Making of Christian Gentlemen: The Values and Ideals of a Nineteenth-Century Educator" Graduated: 2009 Walking through the Dexter Gate on Harvard’s campus as an...

Ione Barrows

ionebarrows@g.harvard.edu

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...

Sven Beckert

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Laird Bell Professor of History

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational...

Natalie Behrends

nbehrends@g.harvard.edu

Natalie Behrends is a doctoral candidate in History working on the global history of labor and migration in the long nineteenth century. Her research centers on patterns of labor radicalism and organization in migrations between Europe and the Americas...

Anna Bisikalo

abisikalo@g.harvard.edu

Anna Bisikalo studies Ukrainian and Eastern European history. Anna is interested in the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and particularly in its resurgence following the end of the Soviet Union. She researches the legacies of Communist...