Professors Emeriti
Sidney Chalhoub
chalhoub@fas.harvard.eduDavid and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Sidney Chalhoub taught history at the University of Campinas, Brazil, for thirty years. He moved to Harvard in July 2015. A social historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil, his first monograph, Trabalho, lar e botequim (1986), is a...
Lizabeth Cohen
cohen3@fas.harvard.eduHoward Mumford Jones Research Professor of American Studies
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Research Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. From 2011-18 she was the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
Nancy F. Cott
ncott@fas.harvard.eduJonathan Trumbull Research Professor of American History, Emerita
Most of Nancy Cott's work in 19th and 20th century U.S. history focuses on gender questions. Her interests also include social movements, political culture, law, and citizenship. Her current project concerns Americans who came of age in the 1920s and...
Robert Darnton
robert_darnton@harvard.eduCarl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus
University Librarian, Emeritus
Assistant: Arlene Navarro arlene_navarro [at] harvard.edu Robert Darnton was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1960) and Oxford University (B.Phil., 1962; D. Phil., 1964), where he was a Rhodes scholar. After a brief stint as a reporter for The New...
Drew Faust
drew_faust@harvard.eduPresident Emerita Harvard University and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor
Drew Gilpin Faust grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania. She served on the faculties of Penn and Harvard for nearly a half century...
Andrew Gordon
agordon@fas.harvard.eduLee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Professor Gordon teaches courses on modern Japanese history with a primary research interest in labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan. His most recent book, Fabricating Consumers, examines the making of the modern consumer in...
James Hankins
jhankins@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of History, Emeritus
Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition. Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University...
Patrice Higonnet
higonnet@fas.harvard.eduRobert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus
Professor Higonnet has written on 17th-century French painting, 18th-century French diplomacy, 19th-century French deputies and immigrants, 20th-century municipal officers, and Vich. He is the chair of the study group on Culture and Politics. Selected...
Christopher Jones
cjones@fas.harvard.eduGeorge Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History, Emeritus
Research Interests: Hellenistic and Roman history; Greek epigraphy; Greek literature of the Roman period; Latin prose literature; Greek and Roman historiography RESEARCH AREAS Epigraphy Greek History Roman History Text and Transmission Greek Literature of...
Jane Kamensky
kamensky@g.harvard.eduJonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emerita
Former Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Jane Kamensky was professor of history at Harvard University and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a...
