Other Medieval Studies Faculty

Jesse Arlen

jarlen@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Armenian Studies

Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles

Jesse S. Arlen is a scholar of the religious literature and intellectual history of medieval Armenia, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the co-author of Odes of Saint Nersess the Graceful: Annotated Translation (New York...

Suzanne Preston Blier

blier@fas.harvard.edu

Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts

Ph.D. Columbia University

On leave 2025 - 2026

Suzanne Preston Blier teaches in the departments of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, and is an affiliate member of the Committee on Medieval Studies. Her research addresses the history of African art and...

Lorenzo Bondioli

lorenzobondioli@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History

Ph.D. Princeton University

On leave 2025 - 2026

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...

Charles Donahue

Paul A. Freund Professor of Law

Ll.B. Yale University

Charles Donahue is a scholar of the common, canon, and Roman law traditions in medieval Europe. His work focuses in particular upon the law of property and marriage in England and the continent; among his many publications are Select Cases from the...

Daniel Donoghue

dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

John P. Marquand Professor of English

Ph.D. Yale University

On leave Fall 2025

Daniel Donoghue is a specialist on Old and Middle English, with a particular interest in the literary and intellectual history of early Medieval England , and chairs the Medieval Studies events and research committee. His recent publications include Lady...

Khaled El-Rouayheb

kel@fas.harvard.edu

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History

Ph.D. Cambridge University

Khaled El-Rouayheb is an intellectual and cultural historian whose teaching and research address the development of Islamic theology and philosophy, the history of Arabic logic, and the transformation of the Arabic-Islamic world in the classical, medieval...

Mohsen Goudarzi

mgoudarzi@hds.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

Mohsen Goudarzi joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2021, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is a scholar of religion who studies the Qur’an and early Islamic history using a variety of analytical...

Eric Gurevitch

ericgurevitch@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of the History of Science

Ph.D. University of Chicago

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...

Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Ph.D. McGill University

Cemal Kafadar is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval and early modern era. He teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, cinema, with a particular interest in the...

Donald Ostrowski

don@wjh.harvard.edu

Lecturer in History and Research Advisor in Social Sciences

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Donald Ostrowski is a scholar of the political and social history of medieval and early modern Russia, and chair of the Early Slavists Seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. In addition to co-editing the authoritative version of the...

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...