Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion

Cana (KAY-nuh) McGhee is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Harvard University. Her research and teaching rely on methods from environmental studies and history of science to explore how ideas about listenership and musicality can shift our...

Clare Bradford Anderson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University.  Her Ph.D. dissertation blends history of science, environmental history, and the variegated histories of the British Empire to describe the role of the...

Adelaide Mandeville is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard. Her dissertation, “Changes in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of Weather Control in the Twentieth-century United States,” examines the American preoccupation with managing, modifying, and...

Tim Shao-Hung Teng is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he holds a Presidential Fellowship. His research focuses on the ecological properties of Chinese-language cinema and media from the late...

Ryan Fontanilla is a History PhD candidate at Harvard, studying the environmental and cultural history of the African diaspora in the Americas, particularly Jamaica. His dissertation project, “Stealing Freedom: Water, Death, and Power in Post-Emancipation...

Chloe Chapin is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program, with an AM in History and secondary concentrations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Classical Archaeology. In her dissertation, “Tailoring America: Masculinity in the Early...

Tess McNulty is a PhD candidate at Harvard, working in the areas of contemporary literature, digital culture, and the digital humanities. Her dissertation project, "Content Culture: Literature in the Age of Viral Media" examines how literary writers are...

Raymond De Luca is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a secondary field certification in Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. His dissertation is tentatively titled “The Lives and Deaths of Animals in Soviet...

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...