# Graduate Students ## expand\_more [### Hannah Ahlblad ](/people/hannah-ahlblad) Research Interests: History of physical sciences; history of technology; urban sociology; visual representation in science. Hannah Ahlblad is an A.M. student in the History of Science and PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Theory... ![Black and White photo of Hannah outside on sidewalk](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Ahlblad_Headshot.jpg.jpeg?h=20a8e290&itok=Vobq84rl) [### Juanita (Juanis) Becerra Sandoval ](/people/juana-becerra) Research Interests: History of computing; history of technology; history of the body; history of the senses, science & technology studies. Juanis is a Ph.D. candidate whose work examines histories of artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and the senses... ![Becerra headshot, smiling, indoor background, head tilted right](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/becerra.jpg?itok=vDz8LeFH) [### Ori Ben-Shalom ](/people/ori-ben-shalom) Research Interests: History of medicine; early modern science; intellectual history; European history; Italian history; The Enlightenment; enviromental history; epidemics; historical epistemology . Ori Ben-Shalom is a PhD candidate in the Department of... ![Ben-Shalom Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/ben-shalom.png?itok=N7VvXkmb) [### Rory Brinkmann ](/people/rory-brinkmann) [rory\_brinkmann@g.harvard.edu](mailto:rory_brinkmann@g.harvard.edu) Research Interests: History of medicine; postcolonial studies; science and race. Rory Brinkmann is an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard GSAS's Department of the History of Science. He is interested in the social structuring of 21st and... ![Brinkmann smiling indoors headshot blue shirt visible](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/brinkmann.jpeg?itok=1XMFlo5w) [### Malaya Caligtan-Tran ](/people/malaya-caligtan-tran) Research Interests: Environmental history; history of empire; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Southeast Asian Studies; Asian American Studies; science and colonialism. Malaya Caligtan-Tran is a PhD student in American Studies. Their research... ![Caligtan-Tran in black sleeveless top smiling head tilted left indoors](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Caligtan%20Tran%20Headshot.jpeg?h=9fef332b&itok=I4HAyOJc) [### Genevieve Dally-Watkins ](/people/genevieve-dally-watkins) [genevieve\_dallywatkins@g.harvard.edu](mailto:genevieve_dallywatkins@g.harvard.edu) Research Interests: Infectious diseases; medicine and empire; disease ecology; planetary health; immunity; ecology; twentieth-century biology; soil science. Genevieve Dally-Watkins is a PhD candidate in the History of Science department. She works between... ![Dally-Watkins](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/dally-watkins_photo.jpg?itok=VQIFf585) [### Daniela Díaz Blancarte ](/people/daniela-diaz-blancarte) Research Interests: Transnational circulation of expertise; plastics industries, housing innovation and development; Cold War science and technology; history of architecture; design history and material culture. Daniela Díaz Blancarte (she/her) studies... ![Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Diaz%20Blancarte%20-%20Headshot1.jpg.jpeg?itok=StnYHWlv) [### Tianyu Fang ](/people/tianyu-fang) Research Interests: Cybernetics and computing; history of the social sciences; technology in the global Cold War; postsocialist China. Tianyu M. Fang is a writer and researcher. He is a PhD student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard... ![Fang in suit jacket white shirt no tie outside green leaves in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/fang%20headshot.jpeg?itok=7ep3YPH8) [### Erin Alexa Freedman ](/people/erin-freedman) Research Interests: History of biology; philosophy of science; history of technology & Industry; history of art, craft, and design; models & modeling practices; material culture; textiles. Erin Alexa Freedman is a PhD candidate in the History of Science... ![Erin Freedman](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/freedman.jpg?itok=gh08qDSH) [### Alex Garnick ](/people/alex-garnick) Research Interests: History of mathematics; pre-modern sciences; intellectual history; contemporary continental philosophy and social theory. Alex Garnick is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. He studies the history of... ![Garnick](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/garnick_photo.jpg.jpeg?itok=cfaO1CC9) [### Matt Goerzen ](/people/matt-goerzen) Research Interests: History of computer security; expertise and legitimacy; media manipulation; securitization; STS; global history. Matt Goerzen is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His dissertation... ![Matt Goerzen](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/goerzen_headshot.png?itok=fpstFvhH) [### Courtney Greer-Soliday (f.k.a. Gragson) ](/people/courtney-gragson) [courtney\_gragson@g.harvard.edu](mailto:courtney_gragson@g.harvard.edu) Research Interests: Disability history; history of the body; early modern science; history of medicine; women and gender studies; science and religion; history of the book. Courtney is broadly interested in early modern disability and medicine. Her Master... ![Gragson](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/gragson_photo.jpg?itok=dxYPKdLF) [### Alexandra Halberstam ](/people/alexandra-halberstam) Research Interests: Incarceration and health; medicine and social control; health justice; infectious disease; citizenship, migration and belonging; politics of memory. Alexandra Halberstam (she/her) is a MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and... ![Halberstam headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Halbertstam%20Headshot.jpg?itok=pBqa6FQz) [### Abigail Higgins ](/people/abigail-higgins) Research Interests: H istory of medicine; feminist science studies; health and the environment . Abigail Higgins (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department. She is interested in the history of medicine and the environment through... ![Higgins](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/higgins.jpg?itok=0zAYS8jQ) [### Kelsey Ichikawa ](/people/kelsey-ichikawa) Research Interests: Anthropology of science; history of psychiatry; history of the human sciences; museum studies; Queer science studies; science & technology studies; social theory. Kelsey is a PhD student in History of Science at Harvard, with an... ![Ichikawa](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/ichikawa_photo.jpg?itok=Jpuog2OK) [### Maud Jansen ](/people/maud-jansen) Research Interests: History of medicine; Aging and End-of-Life Care; postwar U.S. history; medicine in Europe, and postcolonial contexts; intellectual history; science and technology studies; history of the body; disability history . Maud Jansen is a M.D... ![Maud outside in blue shirt background blurred](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Jansen.jpg?itok=W7X6ErZ_) [### Elizabeth Karron ](/people/elizabeth-karron-0) Research Interests: History of medicine; health and the environment; history of public health; history of biology Elizabeth Karron (she/her) is a PhD student in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She specializes in the modern history... ![Karron](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/karron_-_headshot.jpg?itok=Hg33yIzv) [### Max Kwass-Mason ](/people/max-kwass-mason) Research Interests: History of computing; urban history; legal history; labor history. Max Kwass-Mason is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science Department. His research centers on the intersection of computing, municipal government, and the rule... ![Kwass-Mason](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/kwass-mason_photo.jpg?itok=zdxeUDU1) [### Charlotte Lai ](/people/charlotte-lai) Research Interests: Global East Asia; environmental history; multispecies studies; history of biology and the natural sciences; historical ecology; cultural geography; global early modernity. My name is Charlotte Lai, and I graduated from the University... ![Lai in long parka and white hat beside body of water](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-07/Lai%20Photo.jpeg?h=27cb135e&itok=G_KZX3tB) [### Oliver Lazarus ](/people/oliver-lazarus) Research Interests: Environmental history; history of capitalism; history of U.S. empire; animal history; history of technology; economic history; urban history; STS; the Anthropocene. Oliver Lazarus is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department... ![Oliver Lazarus trees in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Lazarus.jpg?itok=2hjL_pvr) [### Vi Le ](/people/vi-t-le) Research Interests: History of experimentation in psychology; history of social psychology; history of cognitive psychology; history of neuroscience. I am immensely curious about experimentation and the experimental method. This is a broad interest that... ![Le Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/le_photo.jpg?itok=_nnGjCYY) [### Ying Li ](/people/ying-li) [ying\_li@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:ying_li@fas.harvard.edu) Research Interests: Cold War science and technology; technoscientific modernity; agrarian studies; political ecology; multispecies relations; scientific institutions; work, labor, and technology in everyday life; modern China. Ying is a PhD student in the... ![Ying Li wearing brown coat outdoors water hills in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-07/Li%20photo%20camera.jpeg?itok=a2KxQy2e) [### Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz ](/people/przemek-matt-lukacz) Research Interests: Environmental history, ethics and politics; science and international affairs; global history; critical histories of artificial intelligence; history of technology; philosophy of science; science and higher education in America... ![Lukacz smiling long blonde hair black shirt](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Lukacz.jpg?h=c77fe88c&itok=Tyy-bqct) [### Ashton Macfarlane ](/people/ashton-macfarlane) [macfarlane@g.harvard.edu ]() Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological... ![Ashton Macfarlane](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/macfarlane_1.png?itok=EYxnbUT0) [### Rebecka Mähring ](/people/rebecka-mahring) Research Interests: History of physics; labor history; material and visual culture; scientific visualizations; history of photography; history of technology; sociology of science; history of observation. Rebecka Mikaela Mähring is a PhD student in the... ![Rebecka Maehring smiling indoor background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Maehring%20Photo.jpg?h=fae74e43&itok=qM-SMWiK) [### Ben Maldonado ](/people/ben-maldonado) Research Interests: History of medicine; history of biology; history of the body; history of sex, gender, and sexuality; age and aging studies; risk, prediction, and insurance; feminist science studies; history of eugenics. Ben Maldonado is a PhD... ![Maldonado Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/maldonado_photo.jpg?itok=9YuWKGzZ) [### Charlie Mayhew ](/people/charlie-mayhew) Research Interests: Early modern science; environmental history; history of environmental sciences; history of physical sciences; intellectual history; philosophy of science; science and religion. Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar... ![Charlie Mayhew outside on a sunny day](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Mayhew_1.jpeg?itok=mGJgBExw) [### Eana Xuyi Meng ](/people/eana-xuyi-meng) Research Interests: History of medicine; integrative practices of medicine; social history of medicine. Eana is a MD student at Harvard Medical School and a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Science. She is committed to the dual practice of... ![Meng](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/meng_photo.jpg?itok=cV7f_mzt) [### Mateo Mauricio Montoya ](/people/mateo-mauricio-montoya) Research Interests: History of political economy; history of administration; early modern science; Latin American history; European history; colonial knowledge systems; indigenous-European synthesis; history of quantification; Jesuit studies Mateo... ![Mateo smiling in front of an ornate, mosaic background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/mateo.jpg?itok=96j460IU) [### Francis Newman ](/people/francis-newman) Research Interests: Histories of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia; environmental history; science and colonialism; Qing history; Taiwan studies. Francis is a PhD candidate in history of science. His work draws together histories of the... ![Francis Newman wearing stripped shirt by floor to ceiling window, plants visible outside](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-07/Newman.jpeg?itok=b-BuzUuL) [### Ana Luiza Nicolae ](/people/ana-luiza-nicolae) [analuiza\_nicolae@g.harvard.edu](mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu) Research Interests: History of early modern mining and meteorology; fossil extraction technologies from the 17 th to the 21 st centuries; history of Earth and Environmental Sciences; climate mitigation technologies. Ana Luiza is a PhD candidate in history... ![Ana Luiza smiling against a white backdrop](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/nicolae_photo.jpg?itok=wJ_NCB2X) [### Osaremen Fortune Okolo ](/people/osaremen-fortune-okolo) Research Interests: history of public health; history of medicine; United States history; contemporary health policy; sociopolitical studies; racial health disparities; reproductive justice. Osaremen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the... ![Osaremen Okolo - seated white blouse smiling white background black and grey striped skirt](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Okolo%20Septmeber%202025%20Website%20Headshot%5B15%5D.jpeg?h=bb00b51e&itok=DXjxIHnL) [### Sri Sathvik Rayala ](/people/sri-sathvik-rayala) Research Interests: Medieval and early modern history, South Asia, premodern sciences and technology, Āyurveda, transregional circulation of knowledge, and Indic intellectual traditions and texts (śāstras). Sri Sathvik Rayala is a Ph.D. student in the... ![Sri Sathvik Rayala photo wears glasses serious expression lit background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Rayala%20Headshot.jpg?itok=O2L1a_y4) [### Anna Riley ](/people/anna-riley) Research Interests: Artisanal practice and embodied knowledge; conservation studies and heritage sciences; history of technology and STS; glassmaking; anthropology of craft, tourism, and development; globalization and commodities; histories of expeditions... ![Anna Riley smiling outdoors in a convertible](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Riley.jpeg?itok=mO-Rto37) [### Aiden Sagerman ](/people/aiden-sagerman) Research Interests: History of mathematics; history of quantification; history of eugenics; history of the right; scientific internationalism; intellectual history. Aiden Sagerman studies the histories of mathematics, quantification, and race and eugenics... ![Aiden Sagerman in a suit seated at a table, hands folded](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Sagerman_0.jpg?itok=SV0Ut-BN) [### Caleb Shelburne ](/people/caleb-shelburne) Research Interests: Ottoman history; history of the social sciences; history of knowledge transfer; history of gender and sexuality; history of race science; history of literature. Caleb Shelburne is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science... ![Shelburne in room wearing jacket smiling](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Shelburne%20DHS%20Profile%20photo.JPG.jpeg?itok=UsqmINSZ) [### Kaitlin Smith ](/people/kaitlin-smith) Research Interests: History of mind sciences, including psychology, psychiatry, and social work; social epistemology; agnotology; Critical Black Studies; decolonial and multicultural psychologies including Black Psychology; conceptions of intelligence... ![Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/smithheadshot.july2022.jpg?itok=SWqD8KCQ) [### Sal Suri ](/people/sal-suri) Research Interests: History of technology; environmental history; aquatic history; ocean studies; science policy; environmental justice. Sal Suri is a settler from Dish with One Spoon treaty territory (Toronto, Canada). Their dissertation historicizes the... ![Sal Suri Sunset water background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Suri%20Photo_0.png?h=68e1baea&itok=seW9GhY4) [### Amalia Sweet ](/people/amalia-sweet) Research Interests: History of biology and biotechnology; history of biochemistry and molecular biology; history of medicine and biomedical research; history of therapeutics; history of disability. Amalia Sweet (she/her)is a PhD candidate in the History... ![Amalia Sweet smiling outside with a green leaf tree in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Sweet.jpeg?h=a472aab2&itok=YMn7RjbB) [### Karuna Vikram ](/people/karuna-vikram) Research Interests: History of Technology; U.S. legal history; labor history; political economy. Karuna studies how technology, law, and society constitute each other. Her previous research examined how U.S. corporate leaders shaped international... ![Vikram in sleeveless floral dress outdoors looking into the distance away from camera smiling](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/vikram_photo.jpg?itok=PM-gMRpf) [### Molly Walker ](/people/molly-walker) Research Interests: History of science and medicine; modern Russian history; history of the Caucasus; Black Sea history; Georgian history; Soviet history; Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies; environmental history; history of empire; history of... ![Molly Walker Seated Outdoors with pink and yellow flowers in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/walker_garden_pic_copy_0.png?itok=rQTKeCmL) [### Lev Xue ](/people/lev-xue) Research Interests: History of psychoanalysis; projective testing; psychoanalytic practice; delinquent children; normal children; longitudinal studies Lev Xue is writing about women (and occasional male psychologists) who were ethnographers and... ![Leah Xue Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/xue_01.png?itok=jjPscRFZ) [### Elleen Xue ](/people/elleen-xue) Research Interests: History of medicine; history of the body; medical humanities; global health; health policy. Elleen Xue is an A.M. student in the Department of the History of Science. Her research traces how medical concepts such as qi, humors, and... ![Elleen Xue in sleeveless white dress, red scarf outside tree trunk in background](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-07/Xue_E%20Headshot.jpeg?itok=qLeu_Od-) [### Nan Zhang ](/people/nan-zhang) Research Interests: Global East Asia; history of science, medicine, and technology; environmental history; women and gender studies; history of knowledge; postcolonial science studies. Nan Zhang is a PhD candidate in history of science. She is broadly... ![Zhang](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/zhang_photo73.jpeg?itok=s7SUliV2)