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...
Honora Spicer is a place-based educator, poet, literary translator, and Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She researches US/Mexico borderlands history, with an interest in migration, the carceral state, infrastructure and...
Casey Two Bears is an active-duty Navy Commander and an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. His scholarly interests include examining the relationship between...
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...
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...
Noah Secondo joined the History Department’s Ph.D. program in 2023. His research focuses on the relationship between social movements and the law in the United States. Previously, he studied how American artists traveled around the world to advocate for...
Jesse Robertson entered the History PhD program in the Fall of 2023. His research interests include the history of the United States in the world, militarization, and how imperial encounters shape politics and culture.
Riley Sutherland (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate with interests in disability studies, archival and museum studies, and United States history. Her current research involves the historical relationship between public parks and psychiatric hospitals, in...
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...