THE PROGRAM:
Faculty
Chair
Leonard W. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Sanskrit and Indian Studies; East Asian Languages and Civilizations
1 Bow Street, Room 311, (617) 496-6871, vanderk@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Tibetan history, culture and civilization, 13th-15th centuries; Tibetan Buddhism (on leave Fall 2007)
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2 Divinity Avenue, Room 134A, (617) 496-5343, elliott3@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: social, political, and institutional history of China and Inner Asia; Manchu studies (Acting Chair, Fall 2007)
Committee
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies
Divinity School
Divinity Hall, Room 318. (617) 384-8000, janet_gyatso@harvard.edu
Research Interests: Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas, with a focus on Tibetan literature and practice
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies
History
Robinson Hall, Room 212, (617) 496-5389, kafadar@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
Anthropology
Peabody Museum, Room 57 J, (617) 496-8162, karlovsk@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: the urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction
Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies
History
CGIS South, Room 328, (617) 495-9895, martin11@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Russia/Soviet Union and Central Europe; Soviet history-nationalism, politics, sociology, surveillance, Islam
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History
East Asian Languages and Civiliations
2 Divinity Avenue, Room 224, (617) 495-8360, puett@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China
David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History
History of Art and Architecture
Sackler Museum, (617) 496-1056, roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Islamic art and architecture
John S. Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Anthropology and on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center, GCIS S327, 1730 Cambridge Street, (617) 495-4338, schoeber@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: identity, ethnicity, conflict, gender, nationality, religion and community organization among the Islamic peoples of Central Eurasia, including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, southern Russia and the Caucasus
Wei-ming Tu, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
5 Bryant Street, Room 105, (617) 496-6052, wtu@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Chinese intellectual history; Asian and comparative philosophy; East Asian religious thought; Confucian studies
Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Sanskrit and Indian Studies
1 Bow Street, Room 318, (617) 496-8570, witzel@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: history; ancent and medieval Nepal; Old Iran; comparative Eurasian mythology; Archaic India; Sanskrit; Vedic
Staff
Margaret Lindsey
Program Administrator
CGIS S106, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-6048
Patty Giles
CGIS S105A, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-3777
THE PEOPLE:
EVENTS:
The Joseph Fletcher Memorial Lecture
The Richard N. Frye Fund Lecture