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Oliver Aas

oliver_aas@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental humanities, visual studies, and comparative literature. His current book project, Arctic Forms: Literature, Art, Politics , examines the...

Anna Jones Abramson

Anna Jones Abramson received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, “The Age of Atmosphere: Air, Affect, and Technology in Modernist Literature,” traces the convergence of meteorological, affective...

Julio Aguilar

jaguilarhidalgo@fas.harvard.edu

Julio Aguilar received a PhD in History at UC Davis, specializing in environmental and Andean social history. At the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, he will expand the humanistic and interdisciplinary foundations of his first book tentatively...

Hiba Bou Akar

Hiba Bou Akar is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College. Bou Akar received her PhD in City and Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California at...

Kessie Alexandre

kalexandre@fas.harvard.edu

Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation...

Samuel M. Anderson

Samuel M. Anderson holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from the University of California Los Angeles. His project, Celebrity, Violence, and the Mystic Arts, explores the shared aesthetics of spectacular public performances staged by militias, NGOs...

Clare Anderson

Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow

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...

Konstanze Baron

Konstanze Baron studied Modern History and Modern Languages (French) at the Queen’s College, Oxford University (BA 2000, MSt 2001) and at Université Denis Diderot Paris VII (DEA 2002) before moving on to Konstanz, where she obtained her PhD in 2010 after...

Charrise Barron

Charrise Barron is a PhD Candidate in African American Studies, with a primary field of concentration in religion and secondary in ethnomusicology. Her research interests center on African American history, religion, and sacred music. She also studies...

Alice Baumgartner

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...

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Matthew H. Baxter

Matthew H. Baxter received a PhD (2013) in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation titled, "For SubContinental Political Theory: On the Non-Brahmin Self-Respect Critique of Gandhian Self-Rule." This work focuses...

Alex Beasley

Alex Beasley holds a PhD in American Studies at Yale University (2016). His book project, At Your Service: Houston and the Preservation of US Global Power, 1945-2008, examines the cultural, political, and economic development of the globally integrated...