Intellectual history is a diverse and thriving field of inquiry that emphasizes the transformation of ideas, ideologies, intellectuals, and scholarly institutions over time. Harvard’s department of history is home to a great many intellectual historians. For sheer number, there are perhaps more of us here than at any other single department in Europe or North America. We work on topics spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, from Asia to the Americas and from Ancient Greece to Modern Europe.

Undergraduates at Harvard can choose intellectual history as their chosen field of specialization within the history concentration. Graduate students can designate fields for intellectual history in a particular time and place.

On this website you will find a list of current events pertaining to intellectual history at Harvard and in the greater Boston area. You will also find a list of current faculty in the history department, and affiliated faculty in other departments such as Government, History of Science, and Philosophy.

Also listed are a selection of course offerings, and links to the listserve for the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual and Cultural History.

 

The Intellectual History at Harvard web site is supported by the Center for History and Economics.

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