Philosophy

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...

Aisling joined the Department of Philosophy at Harvard in the fall of 2024. She received her B.S. in mathematics from Saint Michael’s College and her M.A. in philosophy from Virginia Tech. She is particularly interested in early modern philosophy of mind...

Evelyn Rose joined Harvard's Department of Philosophy in 2024. She completed her BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on early modern European metaphysics and epistemology.

• Regions: Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt; Middle East; Ottoman Empire
• Time periods: 14th and 15th centuries
• Themes: History of Art and Architecture; History of the Book; History of Education; History of Religion; Intellectual History; Philosophy

• Regions: Britain; China; England; Europe; France; Holy Roman Empire; Scotland
• Times: 14th to 17th centuries
• Themes: German Literature; History of Religion; Intellectual History; Philosophy; Political History; Reformation

Haidun Liu studies the...

• Regions: Britain; England; Scotland
• Times: 17th to 19th centuries
• Themes:  British Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; History of Gender and Sexuality; Philosophy

Carly Yingst is a PhD candidate in English, with interests in...

• Regions: Atlantic World; Holy Roman Empire
• Times: 18th to 19th centuries
• Themes: Environmental Humanities; German Literature; History of Linguistic Thought; History of Science; Philosophy; Poetry and Poetics  

Research and teaching interests...

• 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...

Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

Region: Atlantic World; England; Iberia
Time: 16th Century; 17th Century
Theme: Colonialism; History of Empire; Intellectual History; Jewish History; Philosophy; Spanish Literature

My main research centers on the 20th century politics of redemption, but I...