Bret Windhauser

Bret Windhauser is a third-year student in the History Department. His work focuses on the British Mandate of Iraq and the legal regulations revolving around death, dying, and burial during that time. Imperial law and religious understandings of the body conflicted in court in cases pertaining to corpse smuggling and burial in important Shi’a shrine cities. As part of his PhD work, Bret is building out a website to provide visualizations and translations of his research in order to make it more widely accessible. Bret is a 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Fellow.