Francesco Anselmetti (HMES)

Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work conducted in Greece, Turkey and Lebanon and examines the cultivation and trade in tobacco in the eastern Mediterranean over the long 18th century. The project is indicative of a broader interest in developing longue durée, comparative and integrated histories of capitalism and imperialism across the Balkans, Anatolia and the Arab Mashriq.