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Wen Xin

xin_wen@fas.harvard.edu

Fellow

Wen Xin is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Fudan University. His research field is the early American history. He holds an M.A. in History from Nankai University and a B.A. in History from Zhengzhou University. His doctoral...

Yu Yan

yuyan@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar

YAN Yu is an Associate Professor of Art History at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Harvard University. She received her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and BA from Peking University, and...

Helen Yan

Hi everyone! My name is Helen and I'm a senior in Dunster pursuing a concentration in History and secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights. I'm originally from Central Massachusetts. My historical interests lie in Immigration and Asian American...

Lauren Yapp '09

Position: Doctoral Candidate Field: Education Thesis Title: “Reconstructing Sophiatown: Personal Memory, Public Narrative, and the Production of History in South Africa, 1940-2009” Graduated: 2009 When I first chose to study history as a Harvard freshman...

Jonathan Zait

jonathanzait@g.harvard.edu

Jonathan Zait entered the program in the fall of 2024. As a student of Modern European Intellectual History, his research examines the intersection of philosophy and statecraft in the context of Zionism and Pan-Europeanism during the interwar period. More...

Rebecca L. Zeidel '06

Position: Attorney Field: Law Thesis Title: “Diaries Fore and Aft: Gender and Social Interactions Aboard the Whaling Ship Nauticon, 1848-1853” Graduated: 2006 The skills and experiences I gained as a History concentrator prepared me well for a career in...

Adriana Zenteno Hopp

Born and raised in Bolivia, Adriana earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies from Grinnell College in 2017. In 2018 she joined Harvard’s PhD program in History, where she studies colonial Latin America. Her current research combines...

Jiajia Zhang

jiajiazhang@g.harvard.edu

Jiajia Zhang is a historian of Asian America specializing in laborers, veterans, seamen, and socialist internationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. While still a teenager growing up in an unfamous community near the Texoma border, Zhang stumbled upon...

Haoran Zhang

haoranzhang@g.harvard.edu

Haoran Zhang (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. student in History. He is broadly interested in the environmental, economic, and social histories of twentieth-century transpacific East Asia and the United States. His current research focuses on the sugar industries...

Xiaorui Zhou

xiaorui_zhou@g.harvard.edu

Xiaorui Zhou is a PhD Candidate at Harvard University. She is a historian of modern China. Her dissertation, “Chinese Women’s Mobilization, Displacement, and Experiences during the Second World War”, studies the (forgotten) wartime proliferation of women...

Ben Zimmer '07

Position: Founder of Connecticut Public Policy Think-Tank Field: Politics & Policy Thesis Title:“ Empire of Omission: The Failure of American Middle East Policy, 1970-1973” Graduated: 2007 As an undergrad history concentrator my coursework focused on 19th...

Guo Wenjie （郭文杰）

wenjieguo@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Guo Wenjie is a postdoctoral fellow and assistant researcher in the Department of History at Peking University. His supervisor is Professor Wang Qisheng, the dean of the department and Research Center for the History of People's Republic of China. His...