Graduate Student

Zach is pursuing a PhD in Sociology with a secondary-field in Computational Science and Engineering. His research interests include machine learning and causal inference, social network analysis, economic history, and social theory. His dissertation...

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, particularly the Anglo-Caribbean. His current research explores how black workers in post-Emancipation...

"Meritocracy in America, 1930-2000"

Charles is a PhD candidate in American Studies with a primary field in history. His research ranges across political, intellectual, cultural, and business history, pursuing a broad study of modern political economy...

The Political Economy of "Natural" Disasters: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the Mississippi Flood of 1927

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.

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...

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...