Marten Dondorp is a PhD student in Global History, specializing in the history of capitalism in the British and Dutch empires. His current research focuses on the intersections between state-building, logistics, and environments, tracing how colonial...
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...
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...
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...
Kalpana Iyer Mohanty is a doctoral candidate who entered in the Fall of 2019. She grew up in Portugal, Canada and India. Kalpana did her undergraduate degree in History at Barnard College of Columbia University, followed by an MPhil at Cambridge...
Sudarshana entered the PhD program in 2018. She works on race, law, and intimacy in South and Southeast Asia.
Her dissertation, “Imaginary Boundaries: Race and Inter-ethnic Intimacy in British Malaya, 1920-1960” studies the intimate life of racial...