#  Professors Emeriti 

 



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  [### David Blackbourn

 ](/people/david-blackbourn) <dgblackb@fas.harvard.edu>Coolidge Professor of History, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![david-blackbourn.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/david-blackbourn.jpg?itok=M3J89UbA) 

 

 

 

   [### John Coatsworth

 ](/people/john-coatsworth) <jhc2125@columbia.edu>Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![John Coatsworth](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/coatsworth.jpg?itok=-UJMynSw) 

 

 

 

   [### Lizabeth Cohen

 ](/people/lizabeth-cohen) <cohen3@fas.harvard.edu>Howard Mumford Jones Research Professor of American Studies

 

 

 

      ![Lizabeth Cohen, with short curly white hair and glasses smiles warmly while standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books. She is wearing a black blazer, a light lavender top, a white beaded necklace, and matching earrings.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/Picture%20of%20Lizabeth%20Cohen.jpeg?h=87f0166c&itok=8ay5-8Ne) 

 

 

 

   [### Nancy F. Cott

 ](/people/nancy-cott) <ncott@fas.harvard.edu>Jonathan Trumbull Research Professor of American History, Emerita

 

 

 

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   [### Robert Darnton

 ](/people/robert-darnton) [robert\_darnton@harvard.edu](mailto:robert_darnton@harvard.edu)Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus

University Librarian, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![darnton_000.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/darnton_000.jpg?itok=8pftVTO5) 

 

 

 

   [### Drew Faust

 ](/people/drew-faust) [drew\_faust@harvard.edu](mailto:drew_faust@harvard.edu)President Emerita Harvard University and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor

 

 

 

      ![Drew Gilpin Faust ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/drew.png?itok=lGAI7FDg) 

 

 

 

   [### Patrice Higonnet

 ](/people/patrice-higonnet) <higonnet@fas.harvard.edu>Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![higonnet2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/higonnet2.jpg?itok=WXRBS7jq) 

 

 

 

   [### Christopher Jones

 ](/people/christopher-jones) <cjones@fas.harvard.edu>George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![jones.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/jones.jpg?itok=aX-NBIIX) 

 

 

 

   [### Jane Kamensky

 ](/people/jane-kamensky) <kamensky@g.harvard.edu>Jonathan 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

 

 

 

      ![rsz_kamensky.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/rsz_kamensky.jpg?itok=Me5ogqRY) 

 

 

 

   [### James T. Kloppenberg

 ](/people/james-t-kloppenberg) <jkloppen@fas.harvard.edu>Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![jkloppenberg.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/jkloppenberg.jpg?itok=5zSu-wtp) 

 

 

 

   [### Charles S. Maier

 ](/people/charles-maier) <csmaier@fas.harvard.edu>Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Emeritus

 

 

 

      ![Charles Maier](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/maier_2020.png?itok=cENXpAsq) 

 

 

 

   [### Afsaneh Najmabadi

 ](/people/afsaneh-najmabadi) <najmabad@fas.harvard.edu> Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Emerita

 

 

 

      ![najmabadi.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/history/files/najmabadi.jpg?itok=TDBfocOy)