Current Students

Victoria Soto Estremera entered the History Ph.D. program in Fall of
2024. Her work examines gender relationships, U.S. imperialism, and
nation-building in twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Prior to coming to
Harvard, she was a fellow in the Bridge to the...

Born and raised in Bogotá, Tomás joined the Department of History at Harvard University as a doctoral student in 2024. Tomás specializes in Latin American contemporary history with a focus on Colombia. His research interests comprise popular politics...

Jose Carlos studies the legal practices of people and organizations occupying land in the peripheries of Peruvian cities in the 19th and early 20th century. By looking at the experience of confraternities, housing associations and other forms of...

Manny Medrano studies the history of antiquarianism, archaeology, and museums, with a focus on the material culture of the Andes. His research interests span the history of science and mathematics, digital humanities, and the history of knowledge in...

Thiago Mattos Batista is a PhD student in the African and African American department at Harvard University, having History as his primary field. After working as a journalist for over ten years, his research focuses on the cultural contributions of the...

Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish Caribbean in the eighteenth century. She is interested in understanding the workings of Spanish imperialism by looking at royal slaves as uniquely positioned, and involuntary, imperial...

Kevin is a PhD student in Latin American History. His research centers on how notions of human difference –– especially those anchored in ideas about race –– were used to define the boundaries between “us” and “them” in the eighteenth- and nineteenth...

Lucas entered the doctoral program in 2020 with a focus on Latin American History. After completing his B.A. in sociology and Spanish at Tufts University in 2014, he lived in Caracas, Venezuela for five years, working as a staff writer and editor at the...

Felipe Alfonso is a PhD student in the History Department at Harvard University. He specializes on the Social History of slavery and manumission in 19th-century Brazil. He holds a Bachelor's degree in History (with partial completion at the Paris...

Sergio Leos studies the shifting intellectual perspectives of early modern Europe, especially throughout the Iberian Atlantic world of the 16th and 17th centuries. His current research focuses on the ways Europeans interpreted and accommodated the...