Colonialism

Devon J Borowski studies the cultural history of song as a practice, object, and idea in the long eighteenth century, with a focus on opera and other forms of vocal music around Great Britain and its colonial empire. His research brings together queer...

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...

Jennifer Nelson studies early modern art and cultural production from Europe and its outposts. At Radcliffe she is linking a new theory of art’s emergent properties in the Renaissance with an account of these properties’ misuse in the late 16th century...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Europe; Latin America; North America
• Times: 15th to 17th centuries
• Themes: Colonialism; Folklore; History of Art and Architecture; History of the Body; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality...

• Regions: Eastern Mediterranean; Eurasia; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time Periods: 14th to 19th centuries
• Themes: Architectural History; Classical Reception; Colonialism; Environmental Humanities; History of Art and Architecture; History of the...

• Times: 17th-18th centuries
• Regions: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Europe; France; Italy; Spain
• Themes: Architectural History; Colonialism; Cultural History; History of Art and Architecture; History of Gender and Sexuality; Intellectual History...

• Regions: Latin America, Europe
• Times: 16th to 20th centuries
• Themes: History of Science, History of the Book, Intellectual History, Literacy and Writing Systems

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre...

• Regions: Atlantic World, England, Europe, France, North America, United States
• Time Periods: 18th century; 19th century
• Themes: Colonialism; Legal History; Political History; Reformation

Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of...

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...