Medieval and Renaissance

Ahmet Demirel entered the PhD program in the Department of History at Harvard University in 2025. His research focuses on the political and administrative structures of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with particular attention to provincial governance...

Willa Stonecipher entered the PhD program in 2025. As a medievalist, she is particularly fascinated by monasticism and the cult of saints, especially religious women. At Harvard, she hopes to study the environmental history of female monasticism in...

Edan Larkin entered the Medieval History program in the Fall of 2023. The previous Spring, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in History and Classics. At Brown, her research mostly focused on the First Pandemic of Yersinia...

Reed Johnston Morgan became a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard History Department in the fall of 2019, with the generous support of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM)’s Graduate Fellowship. ...

Sama received her joint BA in History and History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in 2017 and has entered the History PhD program in 2019 to study the economic, religious, social, and visual history of late medieval and Renaissance Italy...

Elena began her PhD in History in the Fall of 2018. She specializes in the Central Middle Ages, and is especially interested in Italian legal and economic history. Before beginning her graduate work at Harvard, Elena obtained her B.A. in History and M.A...

Stephanie Leitzel is a PhD candidate in History, focusing on the global connections of the Mediterranean in the medieval and early modern periods. She is primarily interested in issues of pre-industrial economic transformation, a theme she has approached...