Elliot Francolla is a PhD student in the History Department. Her research interests center on the political culture of the medieval Mediterranean between the 9th and 13th centuries. With a primary focus on Byzantium, she studies dynamic geopolitical...
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...
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...
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...