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Maya Jasanoff

mjasanof@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair

Coolidge Professor of History

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) examines the dynamics of modern...

Kanghun Ahn (HEAL)

kaa682@g.harvard.edu

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Didar Akbulut (HMES)

didarakbulut@g.harvard.edu

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Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu

Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on...

Paulina L. Alberto

Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African and African American Studies

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Office Hours: Sign-Up Available via Canvas. Paulina L. Alberto is a historian of Afro-Latin American lives, thought, and politics as they unfolded in the aftermath of slavery, particularly in Brazil and Argentina. Her work...

Felipe Alfonso

felipe_alfonso@g.harvard.edu

Felipe is a PhD student in the History Department at Harvard University since 2019, specializing on Atlantic Slavery, Capitalism, Brazil, 19th century, Global History, and Social History. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in History and a Master's Degree in...

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Hanna Alshaikh (HMES)

halshaikh@g.harvard.edu

Hanna Alshaikh is a researcher of Arab and Palestinian intellectual history in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD program. Her research examines the role of the Palestinian diaspora in Arab world political discourse, with a special focus on...

Clare Anderson

cbanderson@g.harvard.edu

Clare Anderson entered the history PhD program in 2018. Her specialization is Modern Europe. Clare’s research focuses include the British Empire, the Indian Ocean, and environmental history. She is especially interested in the intersection of empire and...

Keziah Anderson

Keziah Anderson is a PhD student in United States History. She has completed the Secondary Field in African and African American Studies.

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Dimiter Angelov

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:00pm, Robinson Hall, M1 Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the intellectual, political, and institutional history of the Byzantine...

Francesco Anselmetti (HMES)

fanselmetti@g.harvard.edu

Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work...

Katherine Aoki '15

Position: Director of Operations, Tobin Project Field: Non-profit, social science research Thesis Title: “The Stock Boy, Salesman, and Merchant Prince: Men’s Work in U.S. Department Stores, 1890-1930” Graduated: 2015 Concentrating in History was one of...