People

History & Literature's distinguished faculty includes a combination of lecturers recruited to teach in the program and faculty members from various departments at Harvard.

Together, our Tutorial Board and Committee on Degrees represent a mix of junior and senior scholars with wide-ranging expertise in a variety of disciplines.

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

Angela S. Allan

allan@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Director of Studies

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, English (Brown University)
American literature and culture; 1865-present

Raphael Allison

rcallison@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Director of Studies

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, English (New York University)
American literature; 20th century-present

Steven Biel

biel@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer on History & Literature

Executive Director, Mahindra Humanities Center

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

Nicholas F. Bloom

nicholasbloom@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Director of Studies

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, American Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
American cultural history & political thought; 18th Century-present

Jonathan Bolton

jbolton@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

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

Lauren E. Brandt

lbrandt@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, American Studies (Harvard University)
American history and literature; 1840s-1930s

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

Cristina García Navas

cristinagarcia@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures (Harvard University)
Latin American literature and culture; 20th and 21st century

Emily Gowen

egowen@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Director of Studies

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, English (Boston University)
American literature; 19th century

Chloe Hawkey

cihawkey@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, History (Johns Hopkins University)
US intellectual history; 1900-present

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

jhgarskof@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History

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

Dennis Hogan

dennis_hogan@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, Comparative Literature (Brown University)
Hemispheric Literatures; 19th and 20th centuries

Mandy Izadi

mandyizadi@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

DPhil, History (University of Oxford)
Native history, Black history, Environmental Studies; 18th century-present

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

Kiran Lam-Saili

kiran_saili@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, English (Brown University)
WOC/QOC Expressive Cultures; 20th and 21st centuries

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

Laura Quinton

lquinton@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Director of Studies in Theater, Dance, and Media

Lecturer on History & Literature

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

Andi Remoquillo

andi_remoquillo@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, American Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
Asian American History; 1875-present

Jules Riegel

jriegel@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, History (Indiana University Bloomington)
European history; 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

Caitlin Schmid

caitlinschmid@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, Historical Musicology (Harvard University)
American music and culture; 20th and 21st century

Matthew Sohm

msohm@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, History (Harvard University)
European history;19th and 20th century

Emmet von Stackelberg

emmetvonstackelberg@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, History (Rutgers University)
American history; Late-19th and 20th century

Hannah Waits

hwaits@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on History & Literature

PhD, History (UC Berkeley)
American history; 19th and 20th centuries

Kirsten Weld

weld@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History

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