People

Erez Manela

manela@fas.harvard.edu

Interim Director of the Charles Warren Center

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History

Lisa McGirr

lmcgirr@fas.harvard.edu

Director of the Charles Warren Center (On Leave 2026-2027)

Charles Warren Professor of American History

Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the 20th century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus, in particular, on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics...

george aumoithe

gaumoithe@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Sven Beckert

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Laird Bell Professor of History

Robin Bernstein

rbernst@fas.harvard.edu

Dillon Professor of American History

Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Search

Catherine A. Brekus

cbrekus@hds.harvard.edu

Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America

Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion

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

Chair, Department of Government

Glenda Carpio

carpio@fas.harvard.edu

Powell M. Cabot Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies

Chair of the Department of English

Harvard College Professor

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...