People

Suzanne P. Blier

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

Suzanne Preston Blier (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and...

Melissa May Borja

Melissa Borja is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she is a core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program. She researches migration, religion, politics, pluralism, and race in the...

Nikolas Bowie

Assistant Professor of Law

Nikolas Bowie is an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is a historian who teaches and writes about federal and state constitutional law and local government law. Professor Bowie's research focuses on critical legal histories of democracy...

Benjamin Bradlow

Ben Bradlow is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he is an affiliate of the Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. In 2019-20, he was a...

Vincent Brown

Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History

Professor of African and African-American Studies

Founding Director of the History Design Studio

Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Founding Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research, writing, teaching, and other creative endeavors are...

Jacob Brown

I am a PhD Candidate in Government at Harvard University studying political behavior in American politics. In particular, I am interested in how political geography and group identity structure political behavior. My dissertation investigates the...

Timothy Byram

Timothy Byram is a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, with a secondary concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, his work is broadly interested in the contemporary interfaces of ritual...

Jordan Cannon

Jordan Cannon entered GSAS’s joint History & Middle Eastern Studies PhD program in 2020. She is interested in Ottoman and Turkish social, cultural, urban, and architectural history. In particular, she studies fires in early modern Istanbul and how they...

Isaac Canton

Isaac is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His research interests include sound studies, urban planning, theory of poetry, and history of art. Isaac’s dissertation project explores the intersections between sound...

Bruno Carvalho

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies

Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative

Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design

Bruno Carvalho specializes in urban life and how cities change. He is the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2026). The book opens in the 1750s, when city dwellers and planners began...

Marcia Castro

Andelot Professor of Demography

Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, and chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, associate faculty of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, faculty member of the...

Brianna Castro

Doctoral Fellow

Brianna is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the HMUI Doctoral Workshop. Her research interests include the social dimensions of climate change adaptation, environmental migration, climate change mobilities, and the...