Faculty

Peter E. Gordon

Amabel B. James Professor of History

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, & Department of Philosophy

Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:00pm. The Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room 305. Peter Gordon specializes in modern European Intellectual History from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. He works chiefly on themes in...

Annette Gordon-Reed

Carl M. Loeb University Professor

Professor of History

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W...

Carla Heelan

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies

Lecturer on History

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3–4:30pm, and Thursdays, 10:30am–noon. Sign up here: https://calendly.com/carlaheelan/adus-office-hours. Carla Heelan is a historian of modern Europe, with a particular focus on the cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth...

Tamar Herzog

Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs

Radcliffe Alumnae Professor

Links: Personal Website

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

On Leave Fall 2026 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has been a tenured faculty member at Harvard since 1993, and she chaired the Department of...

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Professor of History

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Office Hours: B y Appointment Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the...

David Howell

Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History

David L. Howell is Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University and Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. He received his B.A. from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He taught at the...

Walter Johnson

Winthrop Professor of History

Professor of African and African American Studies

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30pm and by appointment Walter Johnson grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is a member of the Rock Bridge High School Hall of Fame (2006). Soul by Soul: Life Inside in the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark...

David S. Jones

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

David Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. A psychiatrist and historian of medicine, he teaches history, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He has...

Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Prof. Kafadar is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval/early modern era. He teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, history and cinema, coffee and...

William C. Kirby

Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration

T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies

Chairman, Harvard China Fund

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor...

Erika Lee

Bae Family Professor of History Radcliffe Alumnae Professor

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Erika Lee is the Bae Family Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. She researches and teaches the...