Jake Haveles

University of Southern California

Kathryn and Peter Yatrakis Fellow, Gennadius Library

Research Topic: The Revolutionary Aegean: Law, Sovereignty, and Unfreedom between Empires, c. 1750-1850

Jake Haveles is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Southern California. His dissertation project is titled “The Revolutionary Aegean: Law, Sovereignty, and Unfreedom between Empires, c. 1750-1850.” It tracks the codification of slavery’s abolition and enslaved peoples’ legal practices across the eastern Mediterranean. As a member of the ASCSA, he will finalize research and writing for this dissertation. 
In addition to the ASCSA, he has been awarded and funded by the American Society for Legal History, Huntington-USC Early Modern Studies Institute, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.