Law

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...

Yu Xie studies the legal history of pre-modern Korea. She received her B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Peking University and her M.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University. Her master’s thesis focused on death penalty cases...

Keziah Anderson is a PhD student in United States History. She has completed the Secondary Field in African and African American Studies.

Kabl Wilkerson (they/them) is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Bourassa & Muller families; Bear Clan) and is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. Their scholarly interests examine the evolving...