Global

Marten Dondorp is a PhD student in Global History, specializing in the history of capitalism in the British and Dutch empires. His current research focuses on the intersections between state-building, logistics, and environments, tracing how colonial...

Rebecca Wu joined Harvard’s Ph.D. program in History and East Asian Languages in the fall of 2025. She graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in History, magna cum laude (2025). Her senior thesis, which examined petitioning practices in late...

Michelle Ong is a doctoral student whose research concerns the legal dimensions of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial thought. Her current work focuses on the ways that colonial seafarers engaged with law and international legal institutions in the...

Rohan was admitted to Harvard’s PhD programme in History in 2025. His interdisciplinary work spans global intellectual history, historical international relations and theory from the South. He is interested in using historical methods beyond studying...

Lucas is a PhD Candidate who joined Harvard during the Fall of 2023. A historian by training, he researches the genealogy and uses of Argentinian decline discourses throughout Argentina's modern history. 

Lucas holds a six-year undergraduate degree in...

Rachelle Rodriguez entered the History PhD program in 2024. She studies twentieth-century global history with a regional specialization in Oceania. Her research interests revolve around the complexities of defining state sovereignty and the link between...

Brianna Cheng is fascinated by the workings of US empire, particularly in relation to global imperial history, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She aims to unearth how varying, and often contradictory, transnational constructions of race, gender...

Jiajia Zhang is a historian of Asian America specializing in laborers, veterans, seamen, and socialist internationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. 

While still a teenager growing up in an unfamous community near the Texoma border, Zhang stumbled upon...

Jason Chan is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history at Harvard University, where he researches the history of earth sciences in twentieth-century China. For more information, please visit his site.

Hagar Zheng Gal is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History. Her research focuses primarily on relations of political economy between the British and Qing Empires in the 19th to early 20th centuries, largely through the opium trade. Topics include Jardine...