On Leave Fall 2026
Executive Assistant: Heather Meeker Green (heather_meekergreen@fas.harvard.edu)
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at...
David L. Howell is Professor of Japanese History at Harvard University and Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. He received his B.A. from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He taught at the...
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...
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, lar e botequim (1986), is a...
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 Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014), analyzes...
On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027
Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and professeur invitée at the...
On Leave Academic Year 2026-2027
I am a historian of Japan and its modern empire whose research is primarily focused on the cultural dimensions of scientific, technological, and environmental change. I began my career as a cultural historian because I...
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...