Isabel Frey Ribeiro entered the History PhD program in 2025. She specializes in Modern Europe and the US and is especially interested in the constraints on speech imposed within liberal societies. She explores the ways censorship, education, and democracy...
Marianna Petiaskina specializes in the history and policies of the Russian Empire and modern authoritarian regimes that emulate imperial models. Her research encompasses intellectual history, East European, Baltic, and Slavic studies, along with 19th and...
Jiajia Zhang is a historian of Asian America specializing in laborers, veterans, seamen, and socialist internationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
While still a teenager growing up in an unfamous community near the Texoma border, Zhang stumbled upon...
Ailish Lalor entered the PhD program in 2023. She studies the environmental history of the Netherlands and its (former) colonies in the twentieth century, focusing on industrial agriculture, whaling and fishing, land reclamation, and animals. In 2024, she...
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...
Tsiona entered the History PhD program in the fall of 2020. Her general scholarly interests include emotions history, intellectual history, and Israeli and Palestinian history. Tsiona's research has centered on how culturally contingent conceptions of...