Standing Committee

Paul Russell is the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures. His research interests include the linguistics and philology of the Celtic languages; and medieval Welsh and Irish literature, with a particular focus on their...

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His first monograph, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, is titled Everyda...

Hannah Marcus is an historian of science, whose research focuses on the scientific culture of early modern Europe between 1400 and 1700. She is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy (University of...

Lorenzo Bondioli's research on the political economy of medieval Islamic empires focuses in particular on the interplay of labor, capital, and fiscal structures in Egypt in the Fatimid era (tenth to twelfth centuries CE), when the country simultaneously...

Xiaofei Tian is a scholar of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, with a particular interest in manuscript culture, court culture, and the dynamic negotiations of medieval Chinese poetry and Buddhism, as well as late imperial and modern...

Jinah Kim is the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, and leads the Arts program of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Her research and teaching focus upon South...

Christina Maranci joined the Harvard faculty from Tufts University, where she was Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art and Architectural History. Her research explores the art and culture of Armenia, focusing upon the late antique and...

After being spawned at the bottom of the Hoboken River, birthplace also of Frank Sinatra, TBFC left the hallowed waters of New Jersey’s most famous water way and went on to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution and received his PhD from UCLA. (Actually he...

Brian FitzGerald is Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion.  A scholar of medieval history, his research focuses on the intellectual and religious culture of Europe from the twelfth to the fo­urteenth century.  His first book, Inspiration...

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja received his B.A. in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Milan (Italy), his M.Phil. in European Literatures and Cultures, and his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of...