On Leave Fall 2026
David Spreen is a historian of modern Germany with research interests in the inter-/transnational entanglements of decolonization, the global Cold War, and the broad social and cultural transformations of the postcolonial period. He...
Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work primarily explores the...
Rosie Bsheer is a historian of the modern Middle East. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro-capitalism and state formation, and the production of historical knowledge and commemorative spaces. She is...
Sophus Reinert is a Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Reinert studies the histories of capitalism, globalization, and political economy from the...
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well...
On Leave Fall 2026
Executive Assistant: Heather Meeker Green (heather_meekergreen@fas.harvard.edu)
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at...
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...
On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027
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Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th...
Office Hours: Mon 3 PM to 4 PM, Tue 11 AM to Noon (sign-up here - Links to an external site.), and by appointment
Arunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and...
Office Hours: Office Hours are by appointment. Please email catherine_kearns@hks.harvard.edu to schedule a time slot in advance (and receive a link for the Zoom Office Hours session if you will attend virtually).
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer...