Chris Rominger

Having joined Social Studies in 2025, Dr. Chris Rominger serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is the primary contact for questions about senior theses, research funding, advising assignments, secondary fields, and joint and dual degrees, among other curricular and administrative concerns. 

Rominger is a historian of modern North Africa and the Mediterranean. He is currently finishing a book (under contract with Stanford University Press) exploring mobility and transnational political movements in North Africa surrounding the imperial wars of the early twentieth century, drawing on sources in Arabic, French, and Italian. In particular, his research follows the trajectory of the enigmatic Tunisian photographer and filmmaker Albert Samama-Chikly through the upheavals of the French colonization of Tunisia (from 1881), the Italo-Ottoman War (1911-1912), the First World War (1914-18), and its aftermath. 

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Rominger arrives at Harvard after serving as Assistant Director at Boston University’s Kilachand Honors College and, before that, Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Florida, where he taught courses on modern Middle Eastern, North African, and Mediterranean histories. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the City University of New York Graduate Center and a B.A. in History from Middlebury College.