People

Bruno Carvalho works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, with a focus on Brazil. Carvalho’s interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary analysis, and urban studies. Often...

Joyce E. Chaplin (PhD and MA Johns Hopkins, BA Northwestern) is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island, and in a maritime...

Suzannah Clark, AKC, BMus, MMus, MFA, MA, PhD, is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and in 2019 was named Harvard College Professor. Since 2017, she has also served on the faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts...

Raymond De Luca is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a secondary field certification in Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. His dissertation is tentatively titled “The Lives and Deaths of Animals in Soviet...

Sarah Dimick received her BA from Carleton College in 2006. She received her MFA from New York University in 2010 and her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. Her interests include: 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone Literatures; Climate...

Ali Glassie received her Ph.D. (English) from the University of Virginia in 2019. Her research explores the ways that the ocean’s biology, physical dynamics, and cultural histories influence the literature of the Americas; in doing so, it draws upon her...

Robin Kelsey is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in art history from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School and has...

Tiya Miles is Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American...

Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. She is an art historian focusing on American and British art of the seventeenth century...