Graduate students in Medieval Studies

Anna Suh is a current PhD student in Harvard University’s English department. She studies Christian mysticism in the High to Late Middle Ages with particular focus on visionary experience, women’s writing, and the relationship between the cataphatic and...

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...

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...

Khushi Nansi is associate coordinator of the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop. Her research focuses on women’s spaces of disobedience in the pre-modern Islamic world. She investigates notions of the “unseen” in a thirteenth-century Iberian...

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...

Katherine Scheidt is a doctoral student in Celtic Languages and Literatures. She is interested in the intersection between theology and medieval Irish literature, and her research focuses primarily on Middle Irish narratives and hagiographies. 

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...

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...

Samuel Puopolo focuses on intertextuality among the poetic and narrative traditions of Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, above all the Welsh bards, as well as the development of Arthurian material in France, and the history of the English...

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...