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
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
East Asian Languages and Civilizations (On leave, spring 2012)
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
Committee
Rowan Flad, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, (617) 495-1966, rflad@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China
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
Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History
History
CGIS South, Room 329, (617) 496-7293, koneill@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Imperial Russia; Economy and trade in the Black Sea; Comparative Social and Cultural History
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2011-2012)
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
P. Oktor Skjaervo, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian (on leave spring 2012)
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Semitic Museum
6 Divinity Avenue, Room 207, (617)
496-5756, skjaervo@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: Old Iranian languages, literature, and religions
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
Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music
Music
Music Building, North Harvard Yard, (617) 495-2791, rwolf@fas.harvard.edu
Staff
C. Rose Cortese, Program Administrator
CGIS S106, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-6048, crcortes@fas.harvard.edu
Carolyn Choong, Staff Assistant
CGIS S105A, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-3777,
choong@fas.harvard.edu
THE PEOPLE:
EVENTS:
The Joseph Fletcher Memorial Lecture
The Richard N. Frye Fund Lecture