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...
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...
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 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...
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...
