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Uyen Nguyen

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Office Hours: 

Tue 1–2:30 p.m. or by appointment via email | On Zoom or in-person at Robinson Hall 213 | Please check for availability and sign up in advance here.

 

Uyen T. Nguyen is a historian of modern Vietnam whose research and teaching focus on...

George Aumoithe

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Office Hours: on Zoom by appointment, typically Thursdays 3pm

 

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...

Rosie Bsheer

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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...

Sidney Chalhoub

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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...

Walter Johnson

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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...

Lizabeth Cohen

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Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Research Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. From 2011-18 she was the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...

Sven Beckert

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Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational dimensions. He just published Empire...