Faculty

Martha Minow

minow@law.harvard.edu

300th Anniversary University Professor

Martin Puchner

puchner@fas.harvard.edu

Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature

Mary Brinton

brinton@wjh.harvard.edu

Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Emerita

I am the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and am also currently the Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. I became fascinated by Japanese society when I was an undergraduate, and pursued a PhD in sociology (with many years...

Masahiro Morii

masahiro_morii@harvard.edu

Donner Professor of Science

I am a Professor in the Department of Physics. I have studied Experimental Particle Physics using particle accelerators at CERN (Switzerland), SLAC (Stanford), and KEK (Japan). My current research is done with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where my...

Matt Nock

nock@wjh.harvard.edu

Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology

Chair of the Department of Psychology

Harvard College Professor

Matthew Saunders

msaunders@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Max Bazerman

mbazerman@hbs.edu

Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration

I am the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. My research focuses on ethics, behavioral economics, and ethics. I am the author or co-author of ten books (including The Power of Noticing, Simon and...

Maya Jasanoff

mjasanof@fas.harvard.edu

X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor

Coolidge Professor of History

Melani Cammett

mcammett@fas.harvard.edu

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

I am a professor in the Government Department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and I hold a secondary faculty position in Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School. My research focuses on the politics of development, religion and politics...

Melissa McCormick

mccorm@fas.harvard.edu

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture

Michael Bronski

mabronski@aol.com

Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism

I grew up in New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. In high school I engaged in civil rights work and antiwar activism. In 1969 I became involved in the Gay Liberation Movement and since then have worked as an activist and organizer with emphasis on...

Michael Hopkins

mjh@math.harvard.edu

George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Michael Puett

puett@fas.harvard.edu

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology

Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology

I teach Chinese history and religions in the Departments of Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as in the Committee on the Study of Religion. My undergraduate classes include, “Ethical Reasoning 18: Classical Chinese Ethical...

Myrto Kalouptsidi

myrto@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Economics

Nao Uchida

uchida@mcb.harvard.edu

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I am interested in broad areas of study on how humans and animals make decisions and learn from experiences. In my laboratory, we study the neurobiology of decision-making and reward-based learning (e.g. the dopamine system) using mice. Our research...

Nathaniel Hendren

nhendren@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliate

Professor of Economics, MIT

Neil Shephard

shephard@fas.harvard.edu

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science

Professor of Economics and of Statistics

I am the Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, holding my professorship in the Economics Department and the Statistics Department. I have been Chair (Head of Department) of the Statistics Department at Harvard since 2014. Before...

Nicholas Watson

nwatson@fas.harvard.edu

Henry B. & Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature

Nina Zipser

fdlowell@g.harvard.edu

Faculty Dean of Lowell House

Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning in the FAS

Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics

After receiving mathematics degrees from Columbia (BA) and Harvard (PhD), Nina joined the math faculty at MIT. She then joined the Boston Consulting Group, and afterwards became Harvard’s first Director of the Office of Institutional Research. She is...

Noah Feldman

nfeldman@law.harvard.edu

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law

Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law

Noam Elkies

elkies@math.harvard.edu

Professor of Mathematics

Born in NYC, and raised there and in Israel, I came here for math grad school, earned my Ph.D. in 1987, and have been here ever since, first as a Junior Fellow and now as a faculty member. Most of my research is in number theory, but I welcome discussion...

Oliver Hart

ohart@harvard.edu

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor

Peter Der Manuelian

peter_manuelian@harvard.edu

Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology

Director, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

I grew up locally but somehow escaped speaking with a Boston accent. I joined both the NELC and Anthropology Departments in 2010, after teaching Egyptology at Tufts University and working at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 1987. Over the past two...

Peter Huybers

phuybers@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

I am a professor in EPS and SEAS and focus on climate science. Questions regarding how and why climate has changed and the implications for agriculture and human health animate most of my work. To address such questions, I generally use observational...

Pol Antras

pantras@fas.harvard.edu

Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics

I was born in the beautiful city of Barcelona (Spain), but have lived in the Boston area since 1999. I have taught at Harvard since receiving my Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2003. My teaching and research fields are international economics, and my most...

Raj Chetty

chetty@fas.harvard.edu

William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics

I am a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and a graduate of Harvard College as well as Harvard’s PhD Program in Economics. My research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to help design more effective government policies. My work on...

Randy Buckner

randy_buckner@harvard.edu

Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience

Richard B. Peiser

rpeiser@gsd.harvard.edu

Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development

Department of Urban Planning and Design

My primary research focuses on developing an understanding of the response of real estate developers to the marketplace and to the institutional environment in which they operate, particularly in the areas of urban redevelopment, affordable housing, and...

Robb Moss

robbmoss@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

I am a documentary filmmaker, professor and current chair of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. My films can be about topics, Secrecy (2008), about government secrecy, national security and democracy, or Containment (broadcast in 2017) about...

Robert Barro

rbarro@harvard.edu

Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics

Robert J. Barro is Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University...