Faculty

Joyce Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:30 Joyce E. Chaplin, BA (Northwestern), MA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (Johns Hopkins), is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History in the Department of History at Harvard...

Alejandro de la Fuente

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics

Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, law, art, and Atlantic history have been published in Spanish, English, Portuguese...

Philip Deloria

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History

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...

Emma Dench

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Emma Dench was born in York, grew up near Stratford-Upon-Avon, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford (BA Hons Literae Humaniores 1987) and at St. Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil in Ancient History 1993). Before taking up a joint appointment in the...

Myisha S. Eatmon

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Dr. Myisha S. Eatmon is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History at Harvard University, where she has served since 2022. A Chapel Hill, North Carolina native, she specializes in examining how marginalized...

Caroline Elkins

Professor of History and African and African American Studies

Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School, and the Founding...

Mark C. Elliott

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Vice Provost for International Affairs

Mark C. Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of History at Harvard University. His first book, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic...

Alison Frank Johnson

Professor of History

Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 Alison Frank Johnson's teaching and research focus on the history of German-speaking Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), was awarded the Barbara...

Arunabh Ghosh

Professor of History

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...

David Glovsky

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 David (Dave) Glovsky is a historian of 19 th and 20 th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and the Gambia. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration...

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...