People

Hasibe Akın Demir

hasibe@caticiftligi.com

PhD Candidate, Landscape Department, Istanbul Technical University

Hasibe Akın graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) in 2012 and completed her master's thesis in İTÜ's Architectural Design Program. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis in the İTÜ Landscape...

Gayane Ayvazyan

gayvazyan@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...

Hamed Bukhamseen

hbukhams@gsd.harvard.edu

CMES Student Affiliate

Doctor of Design candidate, Graduate School of Design

Hamed Bukhamseen is an architect whose research is concerned with the developmental projects undertaken by sovereign wealth funds and their socio-political impact within their host nations. Previously, he has worked as an architect in Germany, Japan, and...

Fernando Casamayor Molina

fcasamayormolina@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture and Middle East Studies

Fernando Casamayor Molina is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies. He specializes in architectural archaeology, urbanism, and inequality in the early Islamic period, particularly in the Middle East. He earned his...

Majid Dohan

PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Middle East Studies

Mehmet Durmaz

mehmetdurmaz@fas.harvard.edu

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East

Affiliated graduate student, Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Mehmet Durmaz is a master’s student in Middle Eastern studies. Before joining Harvard, he completed his undergraduate studies in economics and history at Boğaziçi University. Mehmet's research interests include historical political development and...

Ozkan Karabulut

karabulut@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Daria Kovaleva

dkovaleva@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Before coming to Harvard University Daria Kovaleva previously acquired a Master's Degree in Oriental and African Studies from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2011 (Moscow, Russia) and a MA degree in Comparative History with the specialization in the...

Chris Malley

cmalley@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Khushi Nansi

khushinansi@fas.harvard.edu

CMES Student Affiliate

PhD student, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Khushi Nansi is a PhD student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. She studies the medieval Islamic Mediterranean, focusing on sites of occlusion within Spain and Sicily, into the Arabian Peninsula. Her research interests are...

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Ji Qi

ji.qi.pku@gmail.com

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East

Guanyu Shao

guanyu_shao@g.harvard.edu

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East

Guanyu Shao graduated from Peking University with a BA in Persian and a minor in Chinese language and literature, and has joined the AM program in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University since 2024. She is interested in studying rewriting, imitation...