#  Lucas Mertehikian 

Graduate Student Associate

 

 

 



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Lucas Mertehikian is a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His dissertation examines Latin American cultural identity with a focus on collecting efforts carried out by scientists, diplomats, and scholars working in the United States from the 1850s to the 1950s. Lucas’ research interests also include travel literature, race studies, digital humanities, and ecocriticism. In 2020, he was part of the Plant Humanities Summer Program at Dumbarton Oaks, and in 2020-2021 he held the John H. Coatsworth Latin American History Fellowship and the GSAS Merit Term-Time Fellowship. He also co-curated the exhibition Passports: Lives in Transit at Houghton Library (2018). Before coming to Harvard, he received a Licenciatura in Literature from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Masters degree in Latin American Literary Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Academic Year
    
     [2020-2021](/academic-year/2020-2021) [2021-2022](/academic-year/2021-2022) [2022-2023](/academic-year/2022-2023)
- ## Location
    
     [Cambridge](/locations/cambridge-office)
- ## People
    
     [Graduate Student Associate](/people/graduate-student-associate)