The Program in American Studies is guided by a core committee of faculty
with additional, affiliated faculty from across the University. Our students are
free to take courses and work with virtually any combination of faculty members on campus.

Core Faculty

Robin Bernstein, Chair
Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Harvard College Professor

Jesse McCarthy, Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

Charrise Barron
Assistant Professor of Music
Ethnomusicology

Sven Beckert
Laird Bell Professor of History

Ann Braude
Senior Lecturer on American Religious History, Harvard Divinity School

Catherine Brekus
Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School

Philip Deloria
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History

Christine Desan
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Professor of History

Terrence L. Johnson
Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies

Anna Lvovsky
Professor of Law

Dan McKanan
Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Derek Miller
Professor of English

Carol Oja
William Powell Mason Professor of Music

Imani Perry
Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Christopher Pexa
Associate Professor of English

Julie Reuben
Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies

Brandon Terry
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies

Anna Wilson
Assistant Professor of English

Affiliated Faculty

David Armitage
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History

Steven Biel
Senior Lecturer in History and Literature

Stephanie Burt
Professor of English

Daniel Carpenter
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government

Glenda Carpio
Professor of African and African American Studies and English

Joyce Chaplin
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor

Jarvis R. Givens
Associate Professor of Education

Claudia Goldin
Henry Lee Professor of Economics

Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies

David Hempton
Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Jennifer Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

David Holland
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School

David S. Jones
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

Robin Kelsey
Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography

Alexander Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Sarah Lewis
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies

Kenneth Mack
Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History, Harvard Law School

Lisa McGirr
Charles Warren Professor of American History

Tiya Miles
Michael Garvey Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor

Ingrid Monson
Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, Professor of African and African American Studies

Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

Orlando Patterson
John Cowles Professor of Sociology

Mayra Rivera
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Jennifer L. Roberts
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities

Marc Shell
Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English

John Stauffer
Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies