Issouf Dosso is a PhD student at the University of Harvard, where he is preparing a dissertation in African history. Before entering the History PhD program at Harvard, he earned an MA degree in American literature and civilization from the Université...
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...
Majula Swareh joined the program in Fall 2025. Her research centers on the social histories of war and memory in The Gambia, with a particular focus on colonial soldiering during the First and Second World Wars. She is especially interested in public...
Lucas is a PhD Candidate who joined Harvard during the Fall of 2023. A historian by training, he researches the genealogy and uses of Argentinian decline discourses throughout Argentina's modern history.
Lucas holds a six-year undergraduate degree in...
Brianna Cheng is fascinated by the workings of US empire, particularly in relation to global imperial history, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She aims to unearth how varying, and often contradictory, transnational constructions of race, gender...