Our Faculty

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

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

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

Sven

Sven Beckert
Laird Bell Professor of History

Ann

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

Brekus

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

Deloria

Philip Deloria (on leave 23-24)
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History

Desan

Christine Desan (on leave Fall, 23)
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 (on leave 23-24)
Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies

Kim

Ju Yon Kim
Professor of English

Anna Lvovsky
Professor of Law

Dan

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

Derek Miller
Professor of English

Oja

Carol Oja
William Powell Mason Professor of Music

Julie

Julie Reuben (on leave 23-24)
Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Doris

Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies (on leave spring term)

Terry

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

Anna Wilson
Assistant Professor of English


Affiliated Faculty

Armitage

David Armitage
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History

Steven

Steven Biel
Senior Lecturer in History and Literature

Stephanie

Stephanie Burt
Professor of English

Daniel

Daniel Carpenter
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government

Carpio

Glenda Carpio
Professor of African and African American Studies and English

Joyce

Joyce Chaplin
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Gates

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

Jarvis

Jarvis R. Givens
Associate Professor of Education

Goldin

Claudia Goldin
Henry Lee Professor of Economics

Hammonds

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

Hempton

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

EBH

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

Jennifer

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

Holland

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

Jones

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

Kelsey

Robin Kelsey
Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography

Keyssar

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

Carrie

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

Lewis

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

Mack

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

Lisa

Lisa McGirr
Charles Warren Professor of American History

Tiya

Tiya Miles
Michael Garvey Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor

Monson

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

New

Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

Orlando

Orlando Patterson
John Cowles Professor of Sociology

Rivera

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

Roberts

Jennifer L. Roberts
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities

Kay

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies

Shell

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

Stauffer

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