History

Daniel McDonald received his PhD in history from Brown University in 2020. His book project, Peripheral Citizenship: The Right to the City in Twentieth-Century São Paulo explores the grassroots constructions of citizenship that accompanied the rise of the...

Daniel Grant received his PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. He is an environmental historian who works on the racial politics of migration and borderlands in the North American West. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, he...

Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is interested mainly in the fields of history of medicine and social history of healing practices in the early modern era. In his dissertation...

Yi Lu is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. A historian of modern China, he is interested in the nexus of information, authority, and memory. His dissertation, “The Dustbin of History: Archival Politics in Modern China,”...

Brian Van Wyck received his PhD in History from Michigan State University in 2019. His book project, currently titled Turkish Teachers and Imams in Postwar Germany: Race, Islam, and Belonging,examines two groups tasked with seeing to the education and...

Matthew Sussman is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sydney and a former Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His main research area is nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with a particular...