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Serena Shah
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2021
Research Asst-Graduate, History Department
Workshop Coordinator, History DepartmentBioSerena is a PhD candidate in History in the United States field. She is in her fourth year and she works on the history of ideas in the nineteenth century: particularly, how Americans thought about the ancient past as they entered modernity. Her dissertation examines the history of oriental scholarship in the United States. It explores Americans' post-Civil War investment in pre-classical antiquity and the Eastern Mediterranean, Bronze Age world that they called the Orient. She is also currently writing a research article on Greek and Roman slave-naming practices and the classicism of American slavery.
