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...
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...
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...
Nora Doaiji is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University. She specializes in the social and environmental history of the Arabian Peninsula from the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. In her dissertation research, Doaiji examines the trade...
Mahdi Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in History at Harvard University. His doctoral research charts two centuries of steam-powered Islamic mobility across the maritime domains of the British Indian Empire. Between Suez to Aden to Calcutta, imperialism left...
Natalie Behrends is a doctoral candidate in History working on the global history of labor and migration in the long nineteenth century. Her research centers on patterns of labor radicalism and organization in migrations between Europe and the Americas...