Graduate students in Medieval Studies

Omar Abdel-Ghaffar

Center for Middle East Studies

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

B.A. (Political Science) University of California

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

Masoud Ariankhoo

ariankhoo@fas.harvard.edu

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

MTS (Islamic Studies) Harvard Divinity School; M.A Stony Brook University

B.A. University of Malaya

Masoud is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He received an MA in History from Stony Brook University, and an MTS in Islamic Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Masoud's research focuses on the character of the Devil in the...

Juan Manuel Arias

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

B.A. (Literature) Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

M.A. (Literature) Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

Juan's research interests include the transmission and translation of stories and exempla through the Middle Ages; comparative literature and folklore; fables and other animal tales from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period; literary...

Andrew Bair

andrewbair@g.harvard.edu

Department of Anthropology - Archaeology Program

M.A. (Anthropology) - University of Denver

B.A. (Archaeology & Computer Science) - Columbia University

Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology interested in changes to rural life in medieval Ireland. He is a field archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology and geophysical survey. Andrew is also the co-director of the Castles in Communities...

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...

Conor Dube

cdube@g.harvard.edu

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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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...

Julia Judge Mulhall

juliajudge@g.harvard.edu

Department of the Classics

B.A. Classics, Tulane University

Research Interests: archaeology of the Roman empire and Late Antiquity; Greek and Roman religion; sanctuaries and sacred space; epigraphy and ancient graffiti; late ancient Christianity. Dissertation Topic: Panhellenic sanctuaries in Late Antiquity