Social History

Daniel Lord Smail

Department Chair
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History

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Daniel Lord Smail is professor of History at Harvard University, where he works on the history and anthropology of...

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

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Akyeampong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (FGA), and a Corresponding Fellow...

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

On leave 2018-2019

Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States...

Vincent Brown

Charles Warren Professor of American History
Professor of African and African American Studies

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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Harvard Law School: Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law; Faculty Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute; Co-Director, Program in Law and History;
Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Brown-Nagin will become the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University on July 1, 2018.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and Professor of History at Harvard University’s Faculty...

Sidney Chalhoub

Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

On leave fall term

Sidney Chalhoub taught history at the University of Campinas, Brazil, for...

Lizabeth Cohen

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies

On leave 2018-2019

An expert on 20th-century American social and political history, Lizabeth...

Nancy F. Cott

Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History

Most of Nancy Cott's work in 19th and 20th century U.S. history focuses on gender questions. Her interests also include social movements, political...

Mark C. Elliott

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Vice Provost for International Affairs

Mark C. Elliott is the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the...