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 explores late 19th-century interest in civilizational collapse and the Eastern Mediterranean world during the Late Bronze Age. 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)