#  Graduate Students 

 



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  [### Masoud Ariankhoo

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

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   [###  Eric Russell Aupperle

 ](/people/eric-russell-aupperle) <ericaupperle@g.harvard.edu>Ancient Near Eastern Studies

PhD Candidate

 

 

 

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   [### Sarah Aziz

 ](/people/sarah-aziz) <saziz@g.harvard.edu>Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies

PhD Candidate

 

 

 

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   [### Gaia Bencini

 ](/people/gaia-bencini) [gaia\_bencini@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:gaia_bencini@fas.harvard.edu)Ancient Near Eastern Studies/ Egyptology

PhD Candidate

 

 

 

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   [### Jody Bloom

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

      ![Jody Bloom](/sites/g/files/omnuum4571/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Jody_Bloom-edited.jpeg?itok=TqVJWYHo) 

 

 

 

   [### Pamela Brenner

 ](/people/pamela-brenner)Yiddish Studies 

PhD Candidate

 

 

 

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   [### Akeem Burgess

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

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   [### Ahsen Cebeci

 ](/people/ahsen-cebeci) [Histories and Cultures Muslim Societies](<mailto:Histories and Cultures Muslim Societies>)Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies

Ph.D. candidate

 

 

 

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   [### Grace Clements

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

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   [### Jake Colloff

 ](/people/jake-colloff) <jcolloff@g.harvard.edu>Ancient 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... 

 

 

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   [### Miguel Angel Correa

 ](/people/miguel-angel-correa) <mcorrea@g.harvard.edu>Hebrew 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... 

 

 

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   [### Elissa Day

 ](/people/elissa-day) <eday@g.harvard.edu>Ancient 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. 

 

 

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