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Eva Gillis-Buck

A.B. '12 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology

When I arrived at Harvard, I imagined a future for myself as the principle investigator of a biology laboratory. I became a Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology concentrator and loved learning about stem cells and molecular biology. After taking a...

Elena Glassman

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Elena L. Glassman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, specializing in human-computer interaction. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, and obtained...

Mercer Greenwald

Ph.D. candidate, Germanic Languages & Literatures

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...

Kirin Gupta

kiringupta@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Tutor

Ph.D. candidate, History

Dissertation topic: Gender & Terrorism in the Former British Colonies, 1800-Present Research methods: Transnational History/ thematic histories; Archival research (including textual analysis); Interviews/Oral History Areas of interest: Political Violence...

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Julia Harris

juliaharris@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Tutor

Ph.D. candidate, American Studies

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...

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Mark L. Hatzenbuehler

markhatzenbuehler@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Psychology

Professor Hatzenbuehler’s research focuses broadly on identifying the biopsychosocial mechanisms that contribute to adverse mental health outcomes among minority group members, with a particular focus on the role of stigma in shaping the development and...

Jelani Hayes

Ph.D. Candidate, History

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

Ph.D. candidate, History of Science

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

PhD candidate, History

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...

Mitch Kellaway

A.B. '13 Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Freelance Writer

Wanting to understand more about my communities and myself as a feminist, queer, trans person kept drawing me to WGS classes in my first semester at Harvard; there were topics presented in these spaces that I didn't see addressed upfront in any other...

Siobhan Kelly

siobhankelly@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Tutor

Ph.D. candidate, Religion

Dissertation topic: My research is located in the fields of trans studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. I am interested in analyzing representations of the body, with specific attention to the rhetoric and methods that appear in...

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Iqra Saleem Khan

Departmental Writing Fellow

Hi, I'm Iqra! I am a doctoral student (S.J.D.) at Harvard Law School and my work focuses on the distributive analysis of Muslim family law reforms in postcolonial South Asia. As a feminist legal scholar, my research seeks to unveil the detrimental impact...