Committee on Degrees

History & Literature's Committee on Degrees is composed of junior and senior faculty members drawn from various departments at Harvard. They govern the program, deciding on policy and approving degree recommendations.

Members of the Committee on Degrees offer courses that count for concentration credit and advise senior theses. They link History & Literature to their departments, and they provide the institutional foundation that makes this program so strong.

Paulina Alberto

palberto@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

PhD, History (University of Pennsylvania)
Afro-Latin American Studies; 20th century

Steven Biel

biel@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer on History & Literature

Executive Director, Mahindra Humanities Center

PhD, History (Harvard University)
US history; 20th century

Jonathan Bolton

jbolton@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

PhD, Slavic Studies (University of Michigan)
European literature; emphasis in Czech literature

Glenda Carpio

carpio@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

PhD, English (University of California, Berkeley)
African American studies; 20th century

Bruno Carvalho

bcarvalh@fas.harvard.edu

Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative

PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures (Harvard University)
Romance Languages and Literatures; Brazil since the 18th century

Philip Deloria

deloria@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History

PhD, American Studies (Yale University)
American Studies; 19th and 20th century

Laura Frahm

frahm@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Graduate Studies, Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

PhD, Art, Film, and Visual Studies (Humboldt University Berlin)
Film and media

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

jhgarskof@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History

PhD, History (Princeton University)
Latin American and Caribbean history; 19th and 20th century

Maya Jasanoff

mjasanoff@fas.harvard.edu

Coolidge Professor of History

PhD, History (Yale University)
British history; 19th and 20th century

Alison Frank Johnson

afrank@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures

PhD, History (Harvard University)
European history; German-speaking Europe since the 18th century

Lauren Kaminsky

Associate Senior Lecturer on History & Literature

Assistant Dean for Arts & Humanities Education

PhD, History (New York University)
European history; 20th century

Lauren Kaminsky, Photo Credit Stephanie Mitchell

Ju Yon Kim

juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of English

PhD, Modern Thought and Literature (Stanford University)
Asian American literature and performance

Shawon Kinew

skinew@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

PhD, Art History (Harvard University)
Renaissance and Baroque Art

Deidre Lynch

deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature

PhD, English (Stanford University)
English literature, 18th and 19th century

Durba Mitra

dmitra@fas.harvard.edu

Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute

Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

PhD, History (Emory University)
History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; South Asian Studies

Christopher Pexa

cpexa@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of English

PhD, English (Vanderbilt University)
Native American and Indigenous Literatures; 19th and 20th century

Matt Saunders

msaunders@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, AFVS

MFA (Yale University)
Studio Art and Photography

Kirsten Weld

weld@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History

PhD, History (Yale University)
Latin American history; 19th and 20th century