Graduate students in Medieval Studies

Omar Abdel-Ghaffar

Center for Middle East Studies

J.D., Harvard Law School

M.A. (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Columbia University

B.A. (Political Science) University of California Berkeley

Omar is interested in Mamluk agrarian law, practice, and administration. His interests include legal history, peasant history, and agrarian studies.

Saaleh Baseer

saalehbaseer@g.harvard.edu

Department of History & Middle Eastern Studies

B.A., Columbia University

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...

Konrad Boeschenstein

konradboeschenstein@g.harvard.edu

Department of History

B.A. Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto

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

Sofía Carbonell Realme

scarbonellrealme@fas.harvard.edu

Program Assistant

English Department

B.A. (English Literature), Dartmouth College

Sofía is a Ph.D. student in the English Department who studies romance and hagiography from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, focusing on material culture, fiction(ality), and the poetics of the impossible. Beyond the strictly medieval, her interests...

Andy Chen

achen1@g.harvard.edu

Department of History

B.A. Linguistics; Classics; Medieval Studies, UC Santa Barbara

M.A. Medieval Studies, Central European University Convener, Medieval History Workshop

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...

Carina Dreyer

cdreyer@fas.harvard.edu

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

B.Sc. (Mathematics), Technical University of Munich

M.Sc. (Mathematics), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

M.A. (History), University of Massachusetts Amherst

Carina Dreyer’s research interests lie at the intersection of the rational and transmitted sciences, Sufism, and Mongol and Mamluk social and intellectual history. Her master’s thesis Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī and his political, religious, and intellectual...

Lauren Ehrmann

laurenehrmann@g.harvard.edu

Coordinator, Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

B.A. (Art History & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Indiana University

Lauren Ehrmann's research focuses on North African and Andalusian manuscripts. She is interested in depictions of urban space, travel, cross-cultural exchange, and the relationship between manuscripts and the body. Prior to attending Harvard, Lauren was...

Fernanda García

fgarciaortiz@g.harvard.edu

Fernanda García is a doctoral candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion (Literature Studies and the Arts subfield). She holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School (2022) and a BA from The New School (2019). Her dissertation focuses on medieval...

Edan Larkin

edanlarkin@g.harvard.edu

B.A. Brown University

Medieval History Workshop Coordinator

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...

Stephanie Leitzel

sleitzel@g.harvard.edu

Department of History

B.A. (History and Medieval & Early Modern Studies), University of Michigan

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...

Vincent Leung

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

M.Phil Modern Languages, University of Oxford; A.M., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

B.A. Music and Musicology and Italian Studies, Université Paris IV Sorbonne

Reed Morgan

reedmorgan@g.harvard.edu

Department of History

M.Phil (Archaeological Research and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic) University of Cambridge

B.A. (Archaeological Studies), Yale University

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...