Thomas Blakeslee

Thomas Blakeslee earned his Ph.D. in the Fall of 2025 from Harvard University, where he served as a Teaching Fellow, Research Assistant, History Prize Instructor, and Pedagogy Fellow for the History Department. His scholarly interests include early and modern U.S. history, African American history, resistance movements, gender, and family, with a particular focus on the social and intellectual histories of Black fatherhood in the 19th and 20th centuries. Thomas’s work contributes to broader conversations in U.S. history, African American studies, and masculinity studies. As Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department, he is expanding his dissertation into a series of articles and a book manuscript.

Faculty Mentors: Ijeoma Kola, Paul Ocobock, Emily Remus, and Joshua Specht, Department of History