Graduate Students

Elissa Day is a PhD student in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations program at Harvard, focussing on Egyptology. She has a strong interest in GIS and remote sensing, as well as the digital humanities more broadly.

Carina Dreyer is a PhD student in Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Before coming to Harvard, she received an MA degree in History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a focus...

Masoud is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His research focuses on the character of the Devil in the formative period of Islamic thought within the genres of Quranic exegesis, collections of prophetic sayings, and Sufi...

Grace is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, specializing in Egyptology. Her dissertation examines the unfinished tomb of Senenuka Keki (G 2041), an Old Kingdom mastaba in Giza’s Western Cemetery. Her broader research interests...

JJake Colloff is a PhD Candidate in Egyptology at Harvard. His thesis is preliminarily titled “Subversion, Contradiction and Paradoxes in Middle Kingdom Egyptian Literature”. Jake received his BA in Ancient History and Philosophy from the University of...

Arin Nicole Jones is a graduate student at Harvard University studying ancient Egypt. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Hendrix College in 2016, followed by a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana...