Ramos, Lucas

Lucas René Ramos is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, whose work specializes in the histories of gender, sexuality, and religion in modern Europe. His dissertation focuses on the Italian Republic, examining how the Vatican and its political ally, the Christian Democracy, impacted the solidarities that queer activists forged to gain political power within the Left.

Lucas’ research has been supported by the National Academies of Sciences' Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation’s Social Science Research Council. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies and will serve as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Lucas has taught courses in Early Modern and Modern European History. He additionally served as co-president of the Graduate History Association (2020-2021), a delegate for the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusion (2019-2022), and a graduate intern for the Sexual Violence Response Center (2019-2020). 

Before his graduate studies, Lucas graduated with a B.A. in History from Princeton University in 2019, where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He welcomes prospective students to reach out to him to learn more about the department.