# People ## expand\_more 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](/tutorial-board-0 "Tutorial Board") and [Committee on Degrees](/committee-degrees-0 "Committee on Degrees") represent a mix of junior and senior scholars with wide-ranging expertise in a variety of disciplines. [### Paulina Alberto ](/people/paulina-alberto) Professor of African and African American Studies and of History PhD, History (University of Pennsylvania) Afro-Latin American Studies; 20th century ![Paulina Alberto](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/paulina_alberto.jpg?itok=IMACmV5b) [### Angela S. Allan ](/people/angela-allan) Associate Director of Studies Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, English (Brown University) American literature and culture; 1865-present ![Angela S. Allan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Allan%282%29.jpg?h=c4bc86bf&itok=Iq3LFZVx) [### Raphael Allison ](/people/raphael-allison) Associate Director of Studies Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, English (New York University) American literature; 20th century-present ![Raphael Allison](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/raphael_allison.jpeg?itok=Zjh2yBuF) [### Steven Biel ](/people/steven-biel) Senior Lecturer on History & Literature Executive Director, Mahindra Humanities Center PhD, History (Harvard University) US history; 20th century ![Steve Biel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/img_0881.jpeg?itok=poy_B9VP) [### Nicholas F. Bloom ](/people/nicholas-f-bloom) Assistant Director of Studies Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, American Studies (University of Texas at Austin) American cultural history & political thought; 18th Century-present ![Nicholas Bloom](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/nick_profile_academic_-_nicholas_bloom.jpg?itok=J5Y3T6-U) [### Jonathan Bolton ](/people/jonathan-bolton) Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures PhD, Slavic Studies (University of Michigan) European literature; emphasis in Czech literature ![jonathan_bolton.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/jonathan_bolton.jpg?itok=tFtmbJTq) [### Lauren E. Brandt ](/people/lauren-brandt) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, American Studies (Harvard University) American history and literature; 1840s-1930s ![1509251_10101467882757981_5800466439486286664_n.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/1509251_10101467882757981_5800466439486286664_n.jpg?itok=EjCRIZtA) [### Glenda Carpio ](/people/glenda-carpio) Professor of English and of African and African American Studies PhD, English (University of California, Berkeley) African American studies; 20th century ![glenda_r._carpio_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/glenda_r._carpio_photo.jpg?itok=Z_9LGdiv) [### Bruno Carvalho ](/people/bruno-carvalho) 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 ![Bruno Carvalho](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/carvalho_img_4962_1.jpg?itok=OkEe2QtZ) [### Philip Deloria ](/people/philip-deloria) Professor of History PhD, American Studies (Yale University) American Studies; 19th and 20th century ![Philip Deloria](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/deloria.jpg?itok=bTvUwHOI) [### Laura Frahm ](https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/laura-frahm) 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 ![Laura Frahm](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/frahm_laura.jpg?itok=Ujlls5hs) [### Cristina García Navas ](/people/cristina-garc%C3%ADa-navas) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures (Harvard University) Latin American literature and culture; 20th and 21st century ![Garcia Navas](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/img_0435_-_cristina_garcia_navas.jpg?itok=Kwt_4EHY) [### Emily Gowen ](/people/emily-gowen) Assistant Director of Studies Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, English (Boston University) American literature; 19th century ![Emily Gowen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/img_1853_-_emily_gowen_01.jpg?itok=JhIyWKKD) [### Chloe Hawkey ](/people/chloe-hawkey-0) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, History (Johns Hopkins University) US intellectual history; 1900-present ![Chloe Hawkey](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Hawkey_Chloe_496--0991.jpg?itok=AG3ndPpa) [### Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ](/people/jesse-hoffnung-garskof) Professor of History PhD, History (Princeton University) Latin American and Caribbean history; 19th and 20th century ![Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/jesse_hoffnung-garskof.jpg?itok=dsJZLN3K) [### Dennis Hogan ](/people/dennis-hogan) [dennis\_hogan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:dennis_hogan@fas.harvard.edu)Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, Comparative Literature (Brown University) Hemispheric Literatures; 19th and 20th centuries ![Dennis Hogan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/Hogan.jpg?h=413b0f74&itok=GVPmmpts) [### Mandy Izadi ](/people/mandy-izadi) Lecturer on History & Literature DPhil, History (University of Oxford) Native history, Black history, Environmental Studies; 18th century-present ![Mandy Izadi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/mandy_izadi.jpg?itok=u1WWAWMn) [### Maya Jasanoff ](/people/maya-jasanoff) Coolidge Professor of History PhD, History (Yale University) British history; 19th and 20th century ![jasanoff2013.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/jasanoff2013.jpg?itok=AjCpOlfM) [### Alison Frank Johnson ](/people/alison-frank-johnson) Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures PhD, History (Harvard University) European history; German-speaking Europe since the 18th century ![Alison Johnson](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/alison_johnson_0_01.jpg?itok=0jBk4rQk) [### Lauren Kaminsky ](/people/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](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Kaminsky%20Headshot.jpg?itok=x648i-WG) [### Ju Yon Kim ](/people/ju-yon-kim-0) Professor of English PhD, Modern Thought and Literature (Stanford University) Asian American literature and performance ![Ju Yun Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/kim_01.jpg?itok=YzVOFqCW) [### Shawon Kinew ](/people/shawon-kinew-0) Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture PhD, Art History (Harvard University) Renaissance and Baroque Art ![Shawon Kinew](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/shawon_kinew_2.jpg?itok=9OLLwBmU) [### Kiran Lam-Saili ](/people/kiran-lam-saili) [kiran\_saili@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:kiran_saili@fas.harvard.edu)Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, English (Brown University) WOC/QOC Expressive Cultures; 20th and 21st centuries ![Kiran Lam-Saili](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/Lam-Saili.jpg?h=640d958f&itok=5jRNenC9) [### Deidre Lynch ](/people/deidre-lynch) Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature PhD, English (Stanford University) English literature, 18th and 19th century ![lynch.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/lynch.jpg?itok=XlCH4rpS) [### Durba Mitra ](/people/durba-mitra) 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 ![Durba Mitra](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/durba_mitra.png?itok=FZMqOXSV) [### Christopher Pexa ](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/christopher-pexa) Associate Professor of English PhD, English (Vanderbilt University) Native American and Indigenous Literatures; 19th and 20th century ![Christopher Pexa](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/christopher%20pexa.jpeg?itok=Bf0ileE2) [### Laura Quinton ](/people/laura-quinton) 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 ![Laura Quinton](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/laura_quinton_0.jpeg?itok=RH9fU-_9) [### Andi Remoquillo ](/people/andi-remoquillo) [andi\_remoquillo@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:andi_remoquillo@fas.harvard.edu)Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, American Studies (University of Texas at Austin) Asian American History; 1875-present ![Andi Remoquillo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/Remoquillo.jpg?itok=AamgpfUY) [### Jules Riegel ](/people/jules-riegel) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, History (Indiana University Bloomington) European history; 19th and 20th century ![Jules Riegel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/jules_riegel.jpg?itok=ILUXehS7) [### Matt Saunders ](/people/matt-saunders) Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies, AFVS MFA (Yale University) Studio Art and Photography ![Matt Saunders](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/matt_saunders.jpg?itok=woxvxvVG) [### Caitlin Schmid ](/people/caitlin-schmid) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, Historical Musicology (Harvard University) American music and culture; 20th and 21st century ![Caitlin Schmid](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/mindich_website_headshot_schmid-caitlin_-_caitlin_schmid_01.jpg?itok=NxtnVSTO) [### Matthew Sohm ](/people/matthew-sohm-sohm) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, History (Harvard University) European history;19th and 20th century ![Matthew Sohm](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/Sohm.jpg?itok=3nF4lxdP) [### Emmet von Stackelberg ](/people/emmet-von-stackelberg) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, History (Rutgers University) American history; Late-19th and 20th century ![Emmet von Stackelberg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Emmet.jpg?itok=5RIBLb6J) [### Hannah Waits ](https://hwaits.scholars.harvard.edu/) Lecturer on History & Literature PhD, History (UC Berkeley) American history; 19th and 20th centuries ![Hannah Waits](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Hannah%20Waits.jpg?itok=8xurcPwk) [### Kirsten Weld ](/people/kirsten-weld) Professor of History PhD, History (Yale University) Latin American history; 19th and 20th century ![weldmay2013.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/weldmay2013.jpg?itok=yIqd6-GJ)