19th Century

Tâmis Parron

Tâmis Parron

Assistant Professor of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
2016-2017 Volkswagen Global Fellow, WIGH

Tamis Parron is the WIGH Volkswagen Global Fellow.  He received his PhD from the University of Sao Paulo in 2015, where his...

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Casey Primel

Casey Primel

2016-2017 Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow

Casey Primel received his PhD from Columbia in  Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. His dissertation "Empire of Paper: Credit...

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Stephan Scheuzger

Stephan Scheuzger

WIGH Affiliate, Spring 2017

Stephan Scheuzger is Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) at the Department of History of the University of Bern in...

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Cambridge, MA 02138
Zach Sell

Zach Sell

Visiting Fellow, Spring 2020, WIGH
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), Brown University
Associate Producer, Firelight Films

Zach Sell received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an associate producer for Firelight Films...

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Steven Serels

Steven Serels

WIGH Fellow 2013-2014
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Research interests: Historical forces underpinning food insecurity among pastoralist communities residing along Africa's Red Sea...

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Osama Siddiqui

Osama Siddiqui

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (fall 2023).
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, Providence College.

Osama Siddiqui is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, where he...

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Graeme Thompson

Graeme Thompson

Visiting Fellow, WIGH, 2020-2021
Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Graeme Thompson is an Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His current research is focused on the history...

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Eric Vanhaute

Eric Vanhaute

WIGH Fellow 2014-2015
Professor of Economic and Social History and World History, Ghent University, Belgium

Research Interests: Economic and World history with a focus on land, labor, and rural transformations.

Cyrus Veeser

Cyrus Veeser

Professor of History, Bentley University

Cyrus Veeser is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. His research interests include modernization in colonies and LDCs, 1870-1930; U....

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Moritz von Brescius

Moritz von Brescius

Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH, 2022-2024
Affiliate 2021-2022, WIGH; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Moritz von Brescius is a senior lecturer in modern history at University of Bern. His research areas include the global history of science and empire, the... Read more about Moritz von Brescius
Yang Yang

Yang Yang

Global Fellow, WIGH, 2022
PhD Candidate in Economics, Beihang University, China

Yang Yang, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang...

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Hatice Yildiz

Hatice Yildiz

Visiting Fellow (Remote), 2020-2021
Lecturer, School of History, Classics, and Archeology, University of Edinburgh
Hatice Yıldız is a Lecturer in Modern Gender History at the University of Edinburgh, and a former Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford. Her research... Read more about Hatice Yildiz