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Mia Jodorcovsky

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Mia Jodorcovsky joined Harvard’s History PhD program in Fall of 2025. She specializes in Latin American history, with a focus on nineteenth-century Argentina.

Her research explores slavery, fugitivity, and the social networks forged by enslaved women who...

Alice Diniz

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Alice Diniz is a Brazilian researcher who entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall 2025. Prior to Harvard, she earned a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master's degree in Social History, both from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Her research...

Lucas Volpintesta Romay

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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...

Tomás Mantilla Lozano

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Born and raised in Bogotá, Tomás joined the Department of History at Harvard University as a doctoral student in 2024. Tomás specializes in Latin American contemporary history with a particular focus on Colombia.

His research interests comprise popular...

Victoria Soto Estremera

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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...

Itai Segre

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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...

Anna Caroline Oliveira Teixeira Vertelo

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Anna Caroline Vertelo entered the Ph.D. program in 2023 and studies urban maroon communities in Brazil and their (re-)writings of history. Carol is particularly interested in understanding how quilombola populations relate to themes such as belonging...

Manuel Medrano

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Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre-Columbian texts, artifacts, and scientific practices, and the history of their transmission, reception, and study in the Americas and worldwide. He is the author...

Kevin Blacutt

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Kevin is a PhD student in Latin American History. His research centers on how notions of human difference –– especially those anchored in ideas about race –– were used to define the boundaries between “us” and “them” in the eighteenth- and nineteenth...

Noga Marmor

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Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish Caribbean in the eighteenth century. She is interested in understanding the workings of Spanish imperialism by looking at royal slaves as uniquely positioned, and involuntary, imperial...