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Klaus Seidl

kseidl@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar

Dr Klaus Seidl is a senior official at the Parliamentary Research Services of the German Bundestag. His responsibilities include advising Members of Parliament on historical and political science issues as well as developing public history projects for...

Saffron Hooper Sener

saffronsener@g.harvard.edu

Saffron Hooper Sener (she/her) is a feminist scholar of Great Lakes environmental history in her third-year at Harvard. She focuses on histories of gender, sexuality, and the body as they intersect with the unique ecologies of the region and the American...

Elena Shadrina

shadrina@g.harvard.edu

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...

Jonathan Sieg '07

Position: Goldman Sachs Field: Finance & Consulting Graduated: 2007 I graduated in 2007 with a concentration in history, focusing on Modern Europe. It would be fair to say that my professional trajectory since graduation has been unconventional for a...

Samantha Skula

sskula@college.harvard.edu

Hello! I'm Samantha, a senior in Eliot House double concentrating in History and Government. I'm originally from Chicago, IL. My primary interest in history lies in military history, leading me to take classes on World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam...

Isabel Smail

isabelsmail@college.harvard.edu

My name is Isabel Smail. I am a senior living in Mather House (which is undoubtedly the best house), and I am pursuing a double concentration in both History and Government. A fun fact about me is that I chose to take a gap year to pursue my love of both...

Daniel L. Smail

smail@fas.harvard.edu

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History

Daniel Lord Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, where he works on the history and anthropology of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 and on deep human history. In medieval European history, his work explores...

Victoria Soto Estremera

vsotoestremera@fas.harvard.edu

Victoria Soto Estremera entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall of 2024. Her work examines gender relationships, U.S. imperialism, and nation-building in twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was a fellow in the Bridge to the...

Honora Spicer

hspicer@g.harvard.edu

Honora Spicer is a place-based educator, poet, literary translator, and Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She researches US/Mexico borderlands history, with an interest in migration, the carceral state, infrastructure and...

David Spreen

dspreen@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History

Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

On Leave Fall 2026 David Spreen is a historian of modern Germany with research interests in the inter-/transnational entanglements of decolonization, the global Cold War, and the broad social and cultural transformations of the postcolonial period. He...

Jake Stattel

jas309@cam.ac.uk

Associate

Jake Stattel is a postdoc Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge and the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. He completed his PhD in Medieval History at Cambridge while a visitor at Harvard. He also holds an MPhil from Cambridge...