People

George Aumoithe

gaumoithe@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

George Aumoithe, BA (Bowdoin), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia), RYT-200 (Yoga Alliance), is a scholar-artist and historian of the 20th century United States. Professor Aumoithe joins Harvard as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of History and...

Sven Beckert

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Laird Bell Professor of History

Robin Bernstein

rbernst@fas.harvard.edu

Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Chair of American Studies Program

I am a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. A graduate of Yale's doctoral program in American Studies and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, I am the Dillon Professor...

Catherine A. Brekus

cbrekus@hds.harvard.edu

Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Vincent Brown

brown8@fas.harvard.edu

Charles Warren Professor of History

Professor of African and African American Studies

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Dean of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law

Professor of History

Tomiko Brown-Nagin is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of...

Rikki Byrd

Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

Rikki Byrd is a writer, educator, and curator. She is the founder of Black Fashion Archive , co-founder of the Fashion and Race Syllabus , and is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the...

Daniel Carpenter

dcarpenter@gov.harvard.edu

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies

Glenda Carpio

carpio@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

Joyce Chaplin

chaplin@fas.harvard.edu

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Karen Cox

Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian of the American South and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is the author of four books and the editor or co-editor of two volumes on southern history. In 2021, the Wall...

Philip Deloria

deloria@fas.harvard.edu

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History

Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well...