Kim Võ is a doctoral student in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. His research focuses on the negotiation between modernization and museification of the built environment in the nineteenth-century Italian peninsula, specifically...
Rebecca Wu studies Chinese legal history, focusing on the late imperial and the Republican periods.
Rebecca graduated from Princeton University in 2025 with an A.B. in History (magna cum laude); her thesis on petitioning practices in late-Ming China was...
Deren Ertas is a PhD Candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University. She is currently completing her dissertation entitled “Geos and Empire: Mining, Labor, and Environment in the Ottoman Empire, 1720s-1820s.” Her...
Shaharyar Zia works on late-medieval and early modern Islamic intellectual history. He is interested in the scholarly traditions of Firangī Maḥall, Shāh Walī Allāh, Khayrābādīs and various Sufi groups in South Asia. In trying to situate and analyze these...
Ian studies images and objects at the intersection of faith, artistic practice, and intellectual culture in northern Europe during the long seventeenth century. Drawing upon prints, illustrated books, and representations of the natural world, Ian’s work...
Santiago studies early modern art and visual culture in the Hispanic world with a dual focus on religious images—particularly as records and as agents in processes of conversion—and on the intersection of knowledge and art production in the sixteenth and...
Frank joined the Department of Philosophy at Harvard in 2024. He is broadly interested in metaphysics, history and philosophy of science, and teleological explanation, particularly in the works of Immanuel Kant. He is also interested in the varieties of...
Ida Beckett is currently a Master's student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She is interested in the history of early modern Istanbul and hopes to study the history of perceived and proscribed deviance and unbecoming behavior, from coffee...
