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Daniel L. Smail

smail@fas.harvard.edu

Interim Department Chair

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History

Daniel Lord Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, where he works on the history and anthropology of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 and on deep human history. In medieval European history, his work explores...

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

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 explores the intersections of...

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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...

Kathryn Allamong Jacob

kjacob@fas.harvard.edu

Associate

Research interests: diaries as documentation, monuments and memory, late 19th century Washington, DC Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University, American History, 1986 M.A.: Georgetown University, American History, 1975 B.A.: Goucher College, History, 1972 Current...

Dari Almonte

dalmonte@college.harvard.edu

Dari Almonte is a senior in Pfoho from Rockland County, New York. Along with concentrating in History, Dari holds a secondary in Economics. Dari is particularly interested in indigenous and Afro-descendant relationships during the early colonial period in...

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...