Past Students & Affiliates

John Harpham is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. He is an historian of political thought and intellectual historian. His research examines ideas about slavery, freedom, and race, as well as the relation of such ideas to practices of...

• Regions: Atlantic World; France; Mediterranean
• Times: 17th and 18th centuries
• Themes: Economic History; Legal History; Maritime Humanities

Mallory Hope is an economic historian working within the field of Early Modern Europe. Her body of work explores how...

• Times: 16th to 17th centuries
• Regions: France, North America
• Theme: French Literature

Emily is a PhD candidate in French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has experience teaching all levels of language and literature both at Harvard...

• Region: Europe
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: History of Art and Architecture; Renaissance

• Region: Europe
• Times: 16th to 18th centuries
• Themes: British and French Literature; Classical Reception; Intellectual History; Philosophy; Poetry and Poetics

Katie is currently a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She completed her PhD in...

• Region: China; Eurasia; Europe
• Time: 17th century
• Theme: Cultural History; Intellectual History

Yuval Givon is a historian of the early modern period, specializing in the communication between Western Europe and China during the seventeenth century...

Therese Banks graduated in the French section of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, and she pursued a secondary field in Medieval Studies. Her research explores the intersections and interstices between representations of violence, textual...

• Region: Europe; Italy
• Time: 15th century; 16th century
• Theme: Renaissance Art and Architecture; Legal History 

• Region: Britain; England; Europe
• Time: 16th century; 17th century
• Theme: British Literature; History of the Book; History of Gender and Sexuality; Shakespeare
  
  Sarah Case joined the Harvard College Writing Program in 2018, after completing her Ph.D. in the...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Britain; England; Europe; France
• Times: 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
• Themes: British Literature; Cultural History; French Literature; History of Art and Architecture; History of the Body; History of the Book; History of...