Past Affiliates

Florin-Stefan Morar

Florin-Stefan Morar

WIGH Graduate Research Fellow, 2014
PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University

Research Interests: History of science and global history with a focus on the relations between East Asia, especially China and the West.

Liliana Obregón

Liliana Obregón

WIGH Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017
Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2016
Associate Professor in International Law, University of Los Andes Law School, Colombia

Liliana Obregón is professor of law at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has a degree in law from the same university, an MA from...

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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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Zhanna Popova

Global Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (spring 2016). PhD Candidate, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

Research interests: History of unfree labor, forced migration, and penal regimes; social history of Russia and the Soviet Union; and global history.

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Cambridge, MA 02138
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Steven M. Press

Research Fellow, WIGH
WCFIA Graduate Student Associate
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

Steven Press holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (2014). He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. In...

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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

Victor Seow

Research Fellow, WIGH; WCFIA Graduate Student Associate
Samuel P. Huntington Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Energy in empire and its aftermath, focusing on the rise of the Manchurian fossil fuel industry....

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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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Quinn Slobodian

Quinn Slobodian

Visiting Fellow, WIGH
ACLS Burkhardt Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College
Research Interests: History of international political economy; social movements; and the power of ideas.
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.