Politics

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George Aumoithe, BA (Bowdoin), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia), RYT-200 (Yoga Alliance), is a scholar-artist and historian of the 20th century United States. Professor Aumoithe joins Harvard as a...

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...

Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University.  He is the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History.  He has served as co-faculty leader of the Wor...

On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026

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...

Office Hours: Office Hours are by appointment. Please email catherine_kearns@hks.harvard.edu to schedule a time slot in advance (and receive a link for the Zoom Office Hours session if you will attend virtually).

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer...

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Research Associate, Department of History, Harvard University, 2018-present
Assistant...

On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026

Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research explores 20^th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.

Her first book, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of...

Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the 20th century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus, in particular, on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics...

Office Hours: Mon. 5:45 in person in CGIS S328. Zoom office hours by request. Please email martin11@fas.harvard.edu to schedule a time.

Terry Martin is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939 (Cornell UP...