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Lorenzo Bradford

Lorenzo Bradford is a JD/PhD student pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. He is interested in law, social movements, affect theory and Black political prisoners. His research explores both spectacular and everyday acts of violence and...

Catherine Brekus

cbrekus@hds.harvard.edu

Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

tbrownnagin@radcliffe.harvard.edu

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law

Professor of History

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of...

Rosie Bsheer

Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History

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...

Jordan Cannon (HMES)

jordancannon@g.harvard.edu

Jordan Cannon entered the joint History & Middle Eastern Studies PhD program in 2020. Her research interests include Ottoman and Turkish social, cultural, urban, and architectural history. In particular, she plans to research fires in early modern...

Marcelo Cerullo '10

Position: Student Field: Medicine Thesis Title: “Coffee and Capital in Sao Paulo, 1850-1900” Awarded the Hoopes Prize Graduated: 2010 I began my journey as a History concentrator in my sophomore year, taking just one class on early-modern Brazil. I had...

Emerson César de Campos

ecdecampos@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar

Emerson César de Campos is a full professor at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from UDESC (1997) and a master's and doctorate in History from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) (1999 and...

Joan Chaker

joanechaker@g.harvard.edu

Joan Chaker is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She received a BA in Economics and an MA in History from the American University of Beirut as well as an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Her previous...

Sidney Chalhoub

chalhoub@fas.harvard.edu

David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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...

Jason Chan

Jason Chan is a PhD candidate in modern Chinese history at Harvard University, where he researches the history of earth sciences in twentieth-century China. For more information, please visit his site.

Sudarshana Chanda

History Prize Instructor

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...

Joyce Chaplin

chaplin@fas.harvard.edu

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Joyce E. Chaplin, BA (Northwestern), MA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Johns Hopkins), is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History in the Department of History at Harvard University, where she teaches the...