Joel Suarez is a historian of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century United States with interests in labor history, political economy, and the social history of ideas. He is currently completing his first book, The Labor of Liberty: Work and 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...
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...
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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...
For Prof. Manela’s bio as well as information on his research, publications, teaching, and advising, please see: http://scholar.harvard.edu/manela
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Mary Lewis is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard, and Affiliated Faculty at the Harvard Law School. Her work has...
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...