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...
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...
Adam Mahler is a doctoral candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he specializes in medieval and early modern Iberian literature as well as environmental and ethnorepresentative writing. His articles have appeared or...
Ellen Nye is an...
Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...
