Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion

Emily Harrison is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University, where her work is oriented on health sciences. Her current project focuses on infant mortality to analyze globalized interactions at the intersection of health and...

Sakura Christmas is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She focuses on Japanese imperialism in the Chinese borderlands through the lens of space, science, and the environment. Her dissertation examines how the Japanese...

Tae-Yeoun Keum is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she studies political theory. Her research is on political myth, or narratives about political events or conditions that are taken for granted, and are not...

Stephen Tardif is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His research centers on the relation between literary form and self-formation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that artistic creation has the performative character of...

Bernardo Zacka is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on questions of moral personality, ethical decision-making, and individual responsibility in bureaucratic organizations...

Alvaro Santana-Acuña is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. His dissertation investigates the making of the cadastre in France between 1763 and 1833. The cadastre, an administrative tool that registers a country’s real estate property to...

Benjamin Woodring is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His dissertation examines spaces of refuge as they are imagined and represented in Shakespearean England. He investigates what a place of last resort meant to an early modern...