Ida Beckett entered the History PhD program in the fall of 2026. She specializes in early-modern Ottoman and English history and is interested in how subjects in the Old World (broadly construed) understood and reacted to new, ‘foreign’ and imbibed...
Teagan Cameron is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies. Her research interests focus on the Ottoman janissary corps and its identity in the early modern Ottoman Empire. More broadly, she is interested in urban life...
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...
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...
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...
Saaleh entered as a doctoral candidate in Harvard's joint History & Middle Eastern program in 2023. His interests are housed in the Hanafi legal regime and Islamic constitutional law in the post-classical era in Iran and Mughal India and their...
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...
Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...
Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work...
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...