People

Xavier Rodriguez '83

Position: U.S. District Judge Field: Law Graduated: 1983 During my undergraduate years I had in the back of my mind that I wanted to later attend law school – despite having no real understanding of what law school or the practice of law would be like. I...

Brett Rosenberg '12

Position: Rhodes Scholar Field: Education Thesis Title: “Prospect for America: Nelson Rockefeller, The Special Studies Project, and the Search for America’s Best and Brightest” Awarded the Hoopes Prize Graduated: 2012 As a brand new graduate of Harvard’s...

Emma Rothschild

emma_rothschild@harvard.edu

Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History

Director, Center for History and Economics

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and professeur invitée at the...

Ari Ruben '08

Position: Student Field: Law Thesis Title: “Testing Suffrage: Literacy and the Right to Vote in New York State, 1915-1975” Awarded the Hoopes Prize Graduated: 2008 Concentrating in History was one of my best decisions at Harvard College. The History...

Withrop Ruml '04

Position:Executive Recruiter Field:Business Thesis Title:“Rebuffing British Oil Imperialism: The 1932 Anglo-Persian Oil Crisis.” Graduated:2004 Most departments at Harvard teach undergrads a lot in terms of writing skills, communication, rhetoric, and...

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...

Henry Santamaria

hsantamaria@college.harvard.edu

Hi! My name is Henry Santamaria, and I am a senior studying History and Economics. I am originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. I am broadly interested in the social, political and environmental history of the United States, with a particular passion for...

Danilo Santos e Silva

danilo.santoss1996@gmail.com

Fellow

Danilo is a master's student in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGH-UFBA), Brazil. His research focuses on the strategies of insubordination adopted by a group of prisoners of war during the Paraguayan War (1864-1870)...

Leslie Rogne Schumacher

lrschumacher@fas.harvard.edu

Associate

Leslie Rogne Schumacher is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds posts at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr. Schumacher is an Academic Director for...

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...