Members of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization

The faculty associated with Harvard’s American Civilization Program are drawn from a wide range of the University’s academic units.  These include the departments of African and African American Studies; Economics; English; Government (political science); History; History of Art and Architecture; Music; Visual and Environmental Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and the faculties of Divinity, Education, Government (public administration), and Law. 

“Am. Civ.” faculty are listed here in alphabetic, temporal, and thematic lists.

Our thematic categories are: Art and Art History;  Children and Childhood; Class;  Consumption and Material Culture;  Cultural History;  Economic History and the History of Capitalism;  Education;  Environmental History and Built Environment;  Food History;  Global and Transnational History;  Immigration;  Intellectual History;  Latin American Studies;  Law;  Literature and Literary Criticism;  Medicine and Health;  Music;  Native American Studies;  Performance; Politics and Government;  Race and Ethnicity;  Religion;  Science and Technology;  Slavery & Abolition; Social History;  Social Movements;  Urban History;  Visual Culture;  Women, Gender, and Sexuality.