Ida Beckett entered the History PhD program in the fall of 2026. She specializes in early-modern Ottoman and English history and is interested in how subjects in the Old World (broadly construed) understood and reacted to new, ‘foreign’ and imbibed...
Elliot Francolla is a PhD student in the History Department. Her research interests center on the political culture of the medieval Mediterranean between the 9th and 13th centuries. With a primary focus on Byzantium, she studies dynamic geopolitical...
Haoran Zhang (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. student in History. He is broadly interested in the environmental, economic, and social histories of twentieth-century transpacific East Asia and the United States. His current research focuses on the sugar industries...
Issouf Dosso is a PhD student at the University of Harvard, where he is preparing a dissertation in African history. Before entering the History PhD program at Harvard, he earned an MA degree in American literature and civilization from the Université...