# Francesco Anselmetti Graduate Student ![Francesco Anselmetti](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-12/thumbnail_FA_bio%20pic_26%20%282%29.jpg?h=e53e9188&itok=lHlj9F-I) email laptop\_windows [Department Profile](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/francesc-anselmetti-hmes) 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 conducted in Greece, Turkey and Lebanon and examines the cultivation and trade in tobacco in the eastern Mediterranean over the long 18th century. The project is indicative of a broader interest in developing longue durée, comparative and integrated histories of capitalism and imperialism across the Balkans, Anatolia and the Arab Mashriq. - ## People: Department Search [History](/people-department-search/history) [Middle Eastern Studies](/people-department-search/middle-eastern-studies) - ## People: Filtered Search [Graduate Students](/people-filtered-search/graduate-students) - ## People: Theme Search [Economic History](/people-theme-search/economic-history) [Intellectual History](/people-focus-search/intellectual-history) [Legal History](/people-theme-search/legal-history) [Philosophy](/people-theme-search/philosophy) [Political History](/people-theme-search/political-history) [Social History](/people-theme-search/social-history) - ## People: Region Search [Eastern Mediterranean](/people-region-search/eastern-mediterranean) [Egypt](/people-region-search/egypt) [Middle East](/people-region-search/middle-east) [Ottoman Empire](/people-region-search/ottoman-empire) - ## People: Time Period Search [17th Century](/people-time-period-search/17th-century) [18th Century](/people-time-period-search/18th-century) [19th Century](/people-time-period-search/19th-century)