A Capitalizing City: Dar es Salaam and the Emergence of an African Entrepreneurial Elite (c. 1862-2015)
Chambi is a PhD student in African Studies with a primary field in History. His research interests include: ‘Religion and the Reproduction of Educated Elites in Africa’; ‘Comparative History of Capitalism and Militarism in Eastern and Southern Africa’; ‘Regional Formation, Land Formalization and Identity Formulation in Post-Socialist Tanzania’.
Muleteers as Bandits and Mutineers: Global Capital and Social Transformation in the Ottoman Countryside
Joan Chaker is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University who works on the intersection of Ottoman history and the global history of capitalism. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and an M.A. in History from the American University of Beirut, where she focused on the Ottoman tobacco market. In a previous incarnation, Joan worked as a money markets trader at ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam. Her current research interests also include the constitutional law of money.
Ryan entered the History PhD program in 2017. He studies the social and carceral histories of subaltern African diasporic women and men in the Americas,... Read more about Ryan Fontanilla
Pascal is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, with research interests in labor and employment law, economic development, law and economics and the monetary aspects of development policies.
Zach is pursuing a PhD in Sociology with a secondary-field in Computational Science and Engineering. His research interests include machine learning and...
