Social History

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

Office Hours: Thursday 10:00-12:00 or by appointment

Akyeampong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and...

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

On leave 2018-2019

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

Vincent Brown

Charles Warren Professor of American History
Professor of African and African American Studies
Acting Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm

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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law
Professor of History

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an award-winning legal historian, an expert in constitutional law and education law and policy, a member of the American Law...

Rosie Bsheer

Assistant Professor of History

Rosie Bsheer...

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

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies

On leave 2018-2019

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

Nancy F. Cott

Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emerita

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...