Immigration

David (Dave) Glovsky is a historian of 19^th and 20^th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and the Gambia. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, borderlands, spatial history, Islam...

Erika Lee is the Bae Family Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. She researches and teaches the histories of the United States...

Office Hours: By Appointment

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History at Harvard University.  His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, immigration and asylum...

On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026

Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research explores 20^th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.

Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of...

Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00-4:00pm, during the academic year.  Sign up here: https://calendly.com/mdlewis-1/15min

Mary Lewis is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard, and Affiliated Faculty at the Harvard Law School. Her work has...

On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026

Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research extend from the history of the British Empire to global history. She is the author of three prize-winning books. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Penguin Press, 2017)...

Links: Personal Website

See his website for full bio and contact information.
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Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. He just published Empire...