Rosie Bsheer is a historian of the modern Middle East. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro-capitalism and state formation, and the production of historical knowledge and commemorative spaces. She is...
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well...
David Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. A psychiatrist and historian of medicine, he teaches history, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He has...
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Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at...
Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. He has served as co-faculty leader of the Wor...
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Arunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and...
Sidney Chalhoub taught history at the University of Campinas, Brazil, for thirty years. He moved to Harvard in July 2015. A social historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil, his first monograph, Trabalho, lar e botequim (1986), is a...
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Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer...
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Research Associate, Department of History, Harvard University, 2018-present
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Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.
Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014), analyzes...