History

Saaleh is a PhD candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern studies program, where he studies postclassical Hanafi legal theory, Persian philosophy, and procedural law in the Ottoman-Mughal empires. He earned his BA at Columbia University & also...

Andy is a PhD candidate in the Department of History. His dissertation research focuses on family wealth, economic behavior, and social status in 10th-13th century Byzantium. He is interested in the history of economic life and thought, premodern fiscal...

Edan Larkin is a History PhD student interested in ancient and medieval microhistories that seek to humanize people otherwise lost to history. Her scholarly interests intersect disciplines including history, classics, archaeology, and epidemiology. In...

History of Ethics, Education, Politics and Society, Theology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Comparative Literature, with sources in Italian, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Arabic, emphasis on Renaissance Italy, placed in longue durée global perspective

Sama received her joint BA in History and History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in 2017 and has entered the History PhD program in 2019 to study the economic, religious, social, and visual history of late medieval and Renaissance Italy...

Elena specializes in the Central Middle Ages, and is especially interested in Italian legal and economic history.

Reed is interested in textual, archaeological, and scientific approaches to the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  His research focuses on migration and identity (religious, political, and ethnic) in the Late Antique Western...

Stephanie Leitzel entered the History program in 2015, and currently is a Ph.D. candidate. Her scholarly interests revolve around the social and economic history of Europe, with a particular focus on Italy and the global connections of the Mediterranean...