Bok Graduate Fellows

Kaylin Chong is a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology working in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She studies the evolution of ticks and their mouthparts.

William Frey is an Bok Graduate Fellow on the AI track with the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. He is also a jointly funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work, and Faculty Affiliate of the...

Laura is a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology studying tree ecophysiology and forest ecology. Prior to her doctoral work, she completed a master’s degree in plant physiology at the Yale School of the Environment and worked as a forester...

Rhonelle Bruder is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences whose research examines how intersecting structural and systemic barriers influence the healthcare experiences of trafficked women. She has served as a Head Teaching Fellow for...

Erandi Chavez is an Astronomy PhD candidate at Harvard. They work alongside global collaborators to combine radio telescopes across the world and photograph black holes lying at the centers of galaxies. Erandi is developing new computational imaging...

Shaowen Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Film and Visual Studies Program. She is a film and media historian of modern and contemporary China working on a dissertation about the chromatic engineers of the People’s Republic. She has taught for a number of...

Clare Yijia Xie is a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard SEAS, where she develops electrochemical systems to decarbonize chemical manufacturing. She is passionate about science communication, interdisciplinary...