2018 - 2019

Alice Baumgartner received her PhD in history from Yale University in 2018. Her book project, Abolition from the South: Mexico and the Road to the U.S. Civil War, 1800-1867, uses the story of American slaves who escaped to Mexico during the nineteenth...

Samuel Dolbee received his PhD in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University in 2017. His book project, Borders of Cultivation, illuminates the social and environmental history of motion in the borderland region of Iraq, Syria...

Rachael Duarte Riascos is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her dissertation, “We Speak Violence: The Political Effects of Our Narrative Structure,” reevaluates the ethics that are...

Sonia Gomez is a historian of the modern United States whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of race, gender, and immigration. Her book project, Good Wives, Wise Mothers: Race, Gender, and Belonging in the Making of Japanese America...

Jesse Howell received his PhD from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of History at Harvard University in 2017. His dissertation, “The Ragusa Road: Mobility and Encounter in the Ottoman Balkans (1430-1700),” examines the development of...

Zhou Hau Liew received his PhD in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. His current project rethinks the archives of the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), focusing on British resettlement policies imposed as...

Yim King (Kathy) Mak earned her PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. Her dissertation, “The New Look of Mountains and Rivers: Landscape and the Imagining of the Socialist China During the Seventeen Years (1949-1966),”...

Evander Price is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation research proposes a new category of monumentality, the “future monument.” Unlike most monuments, which ask audiences to remember the past, future monuments are...

Marla Andrea Ramírez is a social historian who specializes in oral history, the Mexican repatriation program, social and legal histories of Mexican migrations, and gendered migration experiences. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of...