JESUS SOLIS
Harvard College Fellow 2026-27
Jesus Solis received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2024. Before entering the Ph.D. program at Harvard, he received an M.A. in Economic History from the University of Tokyo, a dual M.A. in East Asian History and Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Colorado, and a B.A. in History and English from Adams State University. His main fields of interest are modern Japanese history, Japanese economic history, the United States in the world, and military history. He is currently working on his first book project, Japan and America’s Black Market Empire in Asia, 1945-1975, which examines how the U.S. military presence in Japan after World War II led to the development of illicit economies around American base towns.