
Serena Shah
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2021
Workshop Coordinator, History Department
Bio
Serena 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 scope of Orientalism in American universities and museums before and after the Civil War. She is also currently writing a research article on Greek and Roman slave-naming practices and the classicism of American slavery.
Education & Certifications
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A.B., Harvard University, Classics and African & African American Studies, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa (2021)