2020 - 2021

Laura Correa Ochoa is a PhD Candidate in Latin American and Caribbean History at Harvard University. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Forging Popular Solidarities: Race, Citizenship and Black and Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia, 1930-1993.” It...

Aleksandr Bierig is a doctoral candidate studying urban and architectural history at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His research focuses on interactions between the built environment, the natural environment, and political economy, particularly in...

Howie Tam earned his PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania. His book project in progress, Rewriting Vietnam: Forms of Nationhood in Diasporic Literature, examines complex modes of national belonging, refugee cultural politics, and the Vietnam...

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...

Delali Kumavie received her PhD in English from Northwestern University at Evanston in 2020. Her dissertation, “Dreams of Flight: Literary Mapping of Black Geographies through Air, Airplane, and Airport,” examines the intersection of blackness with...

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...

Simona Capisani received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. Her research and teaching interests are in Political Philosophy and Ethics (both Normative and Applied) with a special interest in issues that intersect...

Marcos Leitão De Almeida received his PhD in African History from Northwestern University in 2020. His dissertation, “Speaking of Slavery: Slaving Strategies and Moral Imaginations in the Lower Congo (ca.1000 BCE–ca. 1850),” provides a detailed study of...