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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...

Adan Ramirez-Figueroa

aramirezfigueroa@g.harvard.edu

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

M.A. (Spanish Literature), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

B.A. (Hispanic Languages and Literatures), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Research interests: Iberian literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Travel narratives and early cartography. Connections between mental and narrative structures.

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...

Katherine Scheidt

katherinescheidt@g.harvard.edu

M.Phil (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Studies), University of Cambridge

MTS, Harvard Divinity School

B.A. (English), University of Illinois at Chicago

Katherine Scheidt is a doctoral student in Celtic Languages and Literatures. She is interested in the intersection between theology and medieval Irish literature, and her research focuses primarily on Middle Irish narratives and hagiographies.

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...

Denis Searby

Visiting Scholar

Professor of Ancient Greek I received my BA and MA at Columbia University in the City of New York. I received my licentiate degree and PhD from Uppsala University.

Ahmed Seif

Department of English

B.A. Alexandria University

A.M. Harvard University

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Elena Shadrina

shadrina@g.harvard.edu

Department of History

M.A. (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto

B.A. (History), University of Toronto

Elena specializes in the Central Middle Ages, and is especially interested in Italian legal and economic history.

Lydia Shahan

lydiashahan@g.harvard.edu

Committee on the Study of Religion

M.A. (Theology and Religious Studies), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

B.A. (History), Kenyon College

Lydia Shahan is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion, with a secondary field in Medieval Studies. She studies the history of Christianity in medieval Europe, focusing primarily on mystical and devotional literature. Broadly speaking...