Social History

Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This...

Kevin is a PhD student in Latin American History. His research centers on how notions of human difference –– especially those anchored in ideas about race –– were used to define the boundaries between “us” and “them” in the eighteenth- and nineteenth...

Francesco Anselmetti is a PhD candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. His dissertation draws on archival work...

Region: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Latin America
Time: 17th Century; 18th Century
Theme: Colonialism; Social History

Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish empire. The Spanish crown owned enslaved individuals across its American...

• Region: Ottoman Empire; Middle East; Eastern Mediterranean
• Time: 15^th Century; 16^th Century; 17^th Century; 18^th Century
• Theme: Cultural History; Social History; Urban History; Architectural History; Ottoman & Turkish Literature

Jordan Cannon...

• Region(s): France, Scotland, England
• Time Period(s): 18th century; 19th century
• Theme(s): History

18th century and 19th century history, especially the history of economic thought and economic history. I am Director of the Joint Center for...

• 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...

• Region: England; United States
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Cultural History; Intellectual History; Renaissance; Shakespeare; Social History

Jeffrey R. Wilson is a teacher-scholar at Harvard University. He is the...