Graduate Secondary Fielders

Merle Kartscher is a PhD candidate at the History Department, where she focuses on modern East Asian history and gender history. Her research interests encompass the transnational history of the Japanese Empire, the cultural and social dimensions of...

Andrew J. Suárez received his B.A. in Ethnic Studies from Columbia University where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He is currently a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University where he works across Latinx & Latin American Studies...

Clayton Covington is a PhD Student in Sociology with a Secondary Field in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality and a research focus on the political economy of humanitarian intervention and cultural processes of social change in the Caribbean. Drawing on...

Jelani Hayes is a Ph.D. Candidate in History and is pursuing a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her dissertation, “Home & State: The Making of the Modern Family Regulation System, 1954 – 1997,” interrogates the development of...

Poorna Swami is a PhD student in the Department of South Asian Studies, with a secondary field in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research interests include transnational feminisms, post-partition histories of India and Pakistan, Urdu and Hindi...

Annie Zhanling Wang is a social historian of late imperial China and Inner Asia. Her research explores the issues of daughterhood, motherhood, voice, and empire. She has written about friendships between Manchu women in Beijing and Han women in Jiangnan...

Jessica Van Meir (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Ashford Scholar. Her research focuses on the sex workers' rights movement in Latin America, comparing the cases of Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, and...

Saffron Hooper Sener (she/her) is a feminist scholar of Great Lakes environmental history in her third-year at Harvard. She focuses on histories of gender, sexuality, and the body as they intersect with the unique ecologies of the region and the American...

Abigail Higgins is a PhD student in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She is interested in the history of medicine, health, and the environment in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a member of the GenderSci Lab, a...