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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...
Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work primarily explores the...
On Leave AY 2025-26
Rosie Bsheer is a historian of the modern Middle East. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro-capitalism and state formation, and the production of historical knowledge and...
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...
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial...
On Leave Spring 2026
Executive Assistant: Heather Meeker Green (heather_meekergreen@fas.harvard.edu)
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at...
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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 emphasis...
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...
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Pizzorno’s research and teaching focus on the history and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, as well as digital scholarship and methods. Areas of particular interest include imperialism and politics in complex...
On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026
Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.
Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of...