Faculty

Alina Payne

aapayne@fas.harvard.edu

Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Trained as an architect and art historian, Professor Payne is a scholar of late medieval and early modern architecture, art theory, and the historiography of art, focusing upon the Italian and Mediterranean worlds. She is a recipient of the Alexander von...

Felipe Pereda

fpereda@fas.harvard.edu

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art

Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Felipe Pereda joined the Harvard faculty from Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Art History. A scholar of late medieval and early modern Iberian art, art and image theory, and architecture, he is the author of La arquitectura elocuente...

Intisar Rabb

Professor of Law and History

Director of the Program in Islamic Law & the SHARIAsource Lab

J.D. Yale Law School; Ph.D. Princeton University

Intisar A. Rabb is Professor of Law, Professor of History, and the faculty director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. She previously taught at NYU and the Boston College School of Law, and was a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor...

Alexander Riehle

ariehle@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Classics

Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Ph.D. University of Munich

Alexander Riehle is a scholar of Byzantine literature whose work addresses epistolography, rhetoric, performance and gender. He is the editor of A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Brill, 2020) and has co-edited three further volumes: a collection of...

Panagiotis Roilos

roilos@fas.harvard.edu

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature

Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

Professor Roilos's wide-ranging research interests include the history and literature of the Byzantine world, oral poetry and the oral tradition in the Mediterranean, modern Greek poetry, and the Enlightenment reception of ancient and medieval Greek...

David Roxburgh

roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

On leave 2025 - 2026

David Roxburgh's research addresses the medieval and early modern Islamic arts, with a particular emphasis upon calligraphy, book production, and collecting in the Persian and Ottoman world. He is the author of Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art...

Paul Russell

Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures

D.Phil. Oxford University

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...

Jeffrey Schnapp

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Ph.D. Stanford University

A pioneering figure in the field of digital humanities, Jeffrey Schnapp was the founder and director of the Stanford Humanities Lab prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2010, where he serves as faculty director of metaLAB@Harvard and co-director of the...

James Simpson

jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Research Professor of English

Ph.D. Cambridge University

James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Research Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His books are Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text...

Daniel Lord Smail

smail@fas.harvard.edu

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History

Interim Chair of the Department of History

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Daniel Lord Smail is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, and interim chair of the Department of History in 2025-2026. His research and teaching address the history and anthropology of Mediterranean societies between 1100 and 1600 as well as deep...

Christine Smith

csmith@gsd.harvard.edu

Robert C. and Marion K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History

Ph.D. New York University

A historian of Late Antique, medieval, and Renaissance architecture, Professor Smith focuses her research upon Italian church construction, liturgy and architecture, and pre-modern architectural theory and texts. She is the author of a number of books...

Charles Stang

cstang@hds.harvard.edu

Professor of Early Christian Thought

Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions

Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Th.D. Harvard University

Charles Stang’s research and teaching focus on the history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity. He is especially interested in the development of asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism in Eastern...