Ian’s academic office hours:
Zoom Meeting (Wednesdays, 2-3:20 PM)
In person at Cabot House Dining Hall (Wednesdays, 3:20-4 PM)
I am a historian of Japan and its modern empire whose research is primarily focused on the cultural dimensions of scientific...
Prof. Kafadar is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval/early modern era. He teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, history and cinema, coffee and...
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30pm and by appointment
Walter Johnson grew up in Columbia, Missouri, and is a member of the Rock Bridge High School Hall of Fame (2006). Soul by Soul: Life Inside in the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark...
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 Jelavich 2006 Book Prize, the...
On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026
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)...
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...
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...
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...