Graduate Students
Masoud Ariankhoo
Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies
PhD Candidate
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...
Jody Bloom
Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Archaeology
PhD Candidate
Jody is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, specializing in Archaeology. She holds a BA (Hons) in Archaeology of Ancient Civilisations from the University of Liverpool and an MPhil in Assyriology from the...
Pamela Brenner
Yiddish Studies
PhD Candidate
Akeem Burgess
Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Hebrew Bible
PhD Candidate
Akeem Burgess is a Ph.D. student in Hebrew Bible in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He holds a B.A. in Biblical Literature from Oral Roberts University, an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and an M.T.S. in Hebrew Bible from...
Ahsen Cebeci
Histories and Cultures Muslim SocietiesHistories and Cultures of Muslim Societies
Ph.D. candidate
Grace Clements
Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Egyptology
PhD Candidate
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...
Jake Colloff
jcolloff@g.harvard.eduAncient Near Eastern Studies/ Egyptology
PhD Candidate
J Jake 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...
Miguel Angel Correa
mcorrea@g.harvard.eduHebrew Bible
PhD Candidate
Miguel Correa is a PhD student in Hebrew Bible in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Before joining Harvard, he earned his BA (double major) in Biblical Studies and Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, as well as his MA...
Elissa Day
eday@g.harvard.eduAncient Near Eastern Studies/Egyptology
PhD Candidate
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.
