Dissertation Workshops

Emma Friedlander (History, Harvard University) – The Soviet New Age on the Boulevard: Alternative Spirituality, Popular Press, and the End of Times in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia, 1990-1993

Alexander Hartley (Comparative Literature, Harvard University) – Colonial Copyright Law and Modernist Authorship

Angie Jo (Political Science, MIT) – Varieties of Crisis Response: Welfare Regimes and Emergency Fiscal Spending on COVID-19

Rustam Khan (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT) – Apartheid in Schaerbeek: Belgian Migrant Labor and Human Rights During Europe’s Carbon Transition in the 1970s

Claudio Morana (Economics, Visiting Scholar): A New Macro-Financial Condition Index for the Euro Area

Théophile Deslauriers (Politics, Princeton University): From Status to… Something: S.J. Stephen and Henry Maine on Inequality in Britain and India

Sama Mammadova (History): A Bank for the People: Popular Credit and Moral Economy in Renaissance Italy

Moritz von Brescius (History, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow): Scarcity Imperialism and the Global Pathways of a Failed Plantation Crop

Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré (Political Science, Visiting Scholar): ‘Let’s Keep This Informal’: Ad Hoc Differentiation in EU Approach to Conflicts and Crises

Matthias Quinckhardt (Economics, University of Heidelberg): War Losses as a Labor Supply Shock: Evidence from Germany

Jacob Hoerger (Government): Weak Messianic Power and Benjamin’s Contribution to the Debate about Historical Injustice

Sergio Leos (History): “Western Desire”: Gender in Allegorical Representations of America

Eric Fabri (Government, Postdoctoral Fellow): Why Democracy? An Autonomy-based Ontological Argument

Note: Unless otherwise noted, all graduate students are Ph.D. candidates at Harvard University.

Jan Burzlaff (History): After the Dutch Paradox: Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands (1940–1945)

Bo Yun Park (Sociology): Is S(H)e Presidential? The Changing Scripts of Political Leadership, 1995-2020

Aden Knaap (History): Judging the League: The Permanent Court of International Justice and the League of Nations, 1922-1939

Carmelo Ignaccolo (Urban Studies and Planning, MIT): Unmasking Tourism in Venice: the Relationship between Urban Morphology and Tourism Hotspots

Louis Gerdelan (History): "Disaster tabulation and miraculous deliverances in the eighteenth century"

Tugba Bozcaga (Political Science MIT): "The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance in Turkey"

Christopher Havasy (Government): "The Last Invention of Governance: The Rise of Bureaucracy and its Reception in Western Europe"

Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière (History): "The experience of re-enslavement in French Guiana, 1794–1809"

Frank Blibo (History of Science): "The French and Ivorian Heart Care Specialists at the Institut de Cardiologie d’Abidjan, 1976-2017"

Katarzyna Balug (Landscape & Architecture): "Animating Air and the Body at Its Limits" 

Note: Unless otherwise noted, all graduate students are Ph.D. candidates at Harvard University.

Elizabeth Cross (History): "The Pen and the Sword: Visions of Revanche and the Problem of Company Governance in the French Indian Ocean" 

Tomasz Blusiewicz (History): “Überseehafen Rostock: East Germany’s Window to the World under Stasi Watch, 1961-1989” 

Rachel Friedman (Government): “The Collectivization of Risk and the Early Welfare State” 

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Government): “Adam Smith and Max Scheler on Sympathy” 

Jamie McSpadden (History): “A Radical Change? Female Parliamentarians’ Influence on European Politics, 1918-1940” 

Joshua Ehrlich (History): "Wellesley and the Politics of Fort William College" 

Lydia Walker (History): "Politics of Plaint: Nagas, Namibians, and the United Nations System of the early 1960s" 

Kristen Loveland (History): “Replacing God: Reproductive Technologies in German Religious and Legal Thought in the 1980s” 

Liat Spiro (History): “Drafting Empire: American and German Capital Goods and the Mission Industrialisatrice in the Shandong-Kyushu Corridor, 1880-1914” 

Andrew Bellisari (History): “Yesterday’s Enemies: Decolonization and the Role of the Mixed Ceasefire Commissions in French Algeria” 

Brandon Bloch (History): “Institutionalizing Protestant Ethics: Families, Schools, and the West German Basic Law, 1949-1957 

Elissa Berwick (Comparative Politics and Methodology, MIT): “Substate nationalism and the scope of redistribution: Evidence from Spain” 

Louis Gerdelan (History): “Prophecies of doom or the doom of prophecy? Debates over the astrological prediction of disasters in the Atlantic world, c.1650-1700”

Ian Kumekawa (History): “Lugers and Londonderry: World War I, Ireland, and the origins of modern British gun control” 

Deirdre DeBruyn Rubio (Islamic Studies, Religion and Society): “Sacred/secular space: The politics of space and interfaith for French Muslim communities in Paris” 

Mikko Silliman (Education Policy & Program Evaluation): “Can schools help close immigrant-native gaps in later outcomes?” 

Mina Mitreva (History): “Anarcho-syndicalism from Wilhelmine to Weimar Germany, 1914-1930” 

Lucas Melvin Mueller (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), MIT): “Risk on the negotiation table: Contaminants, global commodity trade, and experts after empire” 

Note: Unless otherwise noted, all graduate students are Ph.D. candidates at Harvard University.

Brandon Bloch (History): "Conscientious Objection and the Revaluation of Resistance: West Germany, 1949-1961" 

Josh Ehrlich (History): "The Anglicist-Orientalist Controversy Revisited: Education and the Ends of the Company State in British India" 

James McSpadden (History): “National Parliamentarians on the International Stage: Private Diplomacy and Political Cooperation in Interwar Europe” 

Andrew Bellisari (History): "Twelve Anxious Men: Re-Examining Algeria's Transition to Independence" 

Brandon Bloch (History): "The Law of Reconciliation: German Protestants and International Law in a Divided World, 1957-1965" 

Yukako Otori (History): "Family Passports: Migration and Traffic in Children in the 1920s" 

Joshua Ehrlich (History): "Knowledge and the East India Company State, 1785-1795" 

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Government): “Great Expectations: Henri Bergson and the Morality of Uncertainty” 

Tae-Yeoun Keum (Government): “An Enlightenment Fable: Leibniz and the Boundaries of Reason” 

Elizabeth Cross (History): “The French Revolution of the Compagnie des Indes: 1789-1792” 

Lydia Walker (History): “In the Shadow of Katanga” 

John Harpham (Government): “From Freedom to Slavery” 

Colleen Anderson (History): “Cosmic Visitors: The Space Race in East and West Germany, 1957-1969” 

Guillaume Wadia (History): “The Deep State and the Imperial Spring, 1934-1937” 

Tomasz Blusiewicz (History): “Contraband, bribes, drugs and big bucks: Why was Solidarność born on the Polish Baltic Coast?” 

Jamie McSpadden (History): “Constructing and Contesting an Interwar Parliamentary International: The Inter-Parliamentary Union and Conférence parlementaire internationale du commerce” 

Kristen Loveland (History), "Reproducing Dignity: German and American Law and the Politics of Reproductive Technologies at the Millennium" 

Carolin F. Roeder (History), "Geographies of Alpine Knowledge: 1857-1932" 

Sarah Shortall (History), "The Weapons of the Spirit: Catholic Theology and the Resistance to Nazism" 

James R. Martin (History), "The Origins of International Economic Governance: Food, Finance, and Shipping during the First World War, 1916-1920" 

Mircea Raianu (History), "Between Paternalism and Technocracy: The Tata Iron and Steel Company and the Circulation of Expertise in the British Empire, 1900-1950"