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Daniel L. Smail

Interim Department Chair

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History

Daniel Lord Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, where he works on the history and anthropology of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 and on deep human history. In medieval European history, his work explores...

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on...

Paulina L. Alberto

Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African and African American Studies

Office Hours: Sign-Up Available via Canvas. Paulina L. Alberto is a historian of Afro-Latin American lives, thought, and politics as they unfolded in the aftermath of slavery, particularly in Brazil and Argentina. Her work explores the intersections of...

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Dimiter Angelov

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:00pm, Robinson Hall, M1 Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the intellectual, political, and institutional history of the Byzantine...

David Armitage

Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History

Office Hours: T.B.A. Robinson 215 David Armitage, MA, PhD, CorrFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and former Chair (2012-14, 2015-16) of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual...

George Aumoithe

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Office Hours: on Zoom by appointment, typically Thursdays 3pm George Aumoithe, BA (Bowdoin), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia), RYT-200 (Yoga Alliance), is a scholar-artist and historian of the 20th century United States. Professor Aumoithe joins Harvard as a...

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. He just published Empire...

Ann Blair

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor

For office hours see the personal website. Personal Website Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an...

Lorenzo Bondioli

Assistant Professor of History

On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026 Lorenzo Bondioli's work investigates the political economy of medieval Islamic empires, aiming to lay bare the antagonistic symbiosis between the merchant and ruling classes, and the ever-embattled entanglement of...

Sugata Bose

Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs

Office Hours Sign-Up: https://calendar.app.google/hjpE2y5VNnghg8Pr5 Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director...