Faculty

Maya Jasanoff

Department Chair

Coolidge Professor of History

Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research extend from the history of the British Empire to global history. She is the author of three prize-winning books. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World (Penguin Press, 2017) examines the dynamics of modern...

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

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 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...

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

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 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 history...

George Aumoithe

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 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 tenure-track Assistant Professor...

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 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...

Ann Blair

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor

On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027 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...

Lorenzo Bondioli

Assistant Professor of History

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 subaltern and elite groups. His research...

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...

Catherine Brekus

Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law

Professor of History

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of...