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...
Mercer Greenwald's dissertation examines contemptuous and contemptible humanistic characters in German literature of the 20th centuries with the hope of better understanding the role of the humanities today. The dissertation asks how literature reflects...
Dissertation Topic: Lesbian identities in the late twentieth century Research Methods: Archival research, oral history, literary and visual analysis, performance studies, queer theory, cultural studies Areas of Interest: Environment and the anthropocene...
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...
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...
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...
Abbie LeBlanc completed a BA (Hons) at St. Thomas University (New Brunswick, Canada) in 2019, and an MA at McGill University in 2021. She is broadly interested in the history of political thought, including particularly early modern political thought...
P.h.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Dissertation Topic: TBA Research methods: Textual and visual analysis, media and object history, archival research, critical and media theory, historiography Languages: Chinese, Japanese Areas of Interest: East Asian film, media, gender, sexuality, fandom...