Faculty
Adam Mestyan
mestyan@fas.harvard.eduFord Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
I am a historian of the modern Middle East and a retired bass guitarist of a shaman punk band in Eastern Europe. Originally from Budapest (Hungary), I have taught at Oxford, Duke University, and now Harvard, where I am a professor of Middle Eastern...
Alex Chan
achan@hbs.eduAssistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
I'm an economist working as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. I am a cat, train, manga and Cantonese food enthusiast. I study how market failures occur, how such failures lead to disparities across demographic groups, and how to design...
Annie Park
lo-abrd@fas.harvard.eduAllston Burr Resident Dean, Lowell House
Office: W120
617-495-2283
Hello Lowellians! I am thrilled for my fifth year in this amazing community as your Resident Dean! My role is to support you in your unique experience at Harvard, with the understanding that your personal, physical, mental, social, and spiritual well...
Boaz Barak
boaz@seas.harvard.eduGordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
I am a professor and the co-director of undergraduate studies for Computer Science. I am originally from Israel, and prior to Harvard I was also a faculty member at Princeton. My work is on the theoretical aspects of computer science, which interface with...
Carolyn Abbate
cabbate@fas.harvard.eduPaul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
My work focuses on opera, music philosophy, and sound studies. While my writings have been translated into several languages, I’m also myself a translator, which I consider a relaxing hobby. My current academic research centers on mischievous sound...
Christina Warinner
warinner@fas.harvard.eduLandon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology
Group Leader of Microbiome Sciences, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2010 (and served as a resident tutor in Lowell House) and received postdoctoral training in genomics and proteomics at the University of Zurich and the University of Oklahoma. In 2014, I was...
Claudia Goldin
cgoldin@harvard.eduHenry Lee Professor of Economics
Lee Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences
I’m delighted to become part of your Lowell undergraduate experience. I am a professor in the Economics Department and am also a historian, demographer, and sociologist. My research on women’s changing economic roles through history reflects my...
Claudine Gay
claudine_gay@harvard.eduWilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies
Claudine Gay assumed the role in August 2018 of the Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS, having served previously as Dean of Social Science from 2015-2018. On July 2023, Claudine became the 30th president of Harvard University. She teaches in Government and...
David Charbonneau
dcharbonneau@cfa.harvard.eduFred Kavli Professor of Astrophysics
I'm passionate about astronomy in general and the search for extrasolar planets in particular. I design and build telescopes to discover and characterize worlds orbiting nearby stars, with the ultimate goal of developing methods to study the atmospheres...
David Laibson
fdlowell@g.harvard.eduFaculty Dean of Lowell House
Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics
Director, Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative
After receiving economics degrees from Harvard (AB), the London School of Economics (MSc), and MIT (PhD), David joined the economics faculty at Harvard where he is currently the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics. He leads Harvard Universityʼs...
David Parkes
parkes@eecs.harvard.eduGeorge F. Colony Professor of Computer Science
I am a computer scientist and part economist, pursuing research and teaching classes on topics that arise at the intersections between artificial intelligence and microeconomics, especially related to market design, game theory, and the digital economy. I...
Denis Auroux
auroux@math.harvard.eduHerchel Smith Professor of Mathematics
After growing up and obtaining my PhD in France, I came to the US in 1999. I was on the math department faculty at MIT from 1999 to 2009 and at UC Berkeley from 2009 to 2018 before moving to Harvard in 2018. My research studies the geometry of "symplectic...
Derek Miller
dmiller@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of English
I teach theater history and dramatic literature in the English Department and Theater, Dance & Media. I'm always happy to chat about performances, concentrating in English or TDM, or digital research in the humanities. I'm currently writing a quantitative...
Diana Eck
dianaeck@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita
Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Former Faculty Dean of Lowell House
I am native of Bozeman, Montana and love the west. Dorothy and I were faculty deans of Lowell House for twenty-one years and we love this community! My scholarly research and teaching is on the religious traditions of India and the comparative study of...
Doug Elmendorf
doug_elmendorf@hks.harvard.eduLucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
I’m an economist, and after receiving my PhD from Harvard, I’ve spent most of my career in Washington, DC, working on a range of economic policy issues in different parts of the U.S. government. In 2015 I had an unexpected opportunity to become Dean of...
Drew Faust
drew_faust@harvard.eduArthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor
Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
I am the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Between 2007 and 2018 I served as Harvard’s president and from 2001 to 2007 as the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. I am the author of six books...
Durba Mitra
dmitra@fas.harvard.eduRichard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
I am faculty in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard, and work at the intersection of feminist and queer studies. My classes are diverse and inclusive of all students at Harvard, and I teach across many disciplines and areas, including...
Dustin Tingley
dtingley@gov.harvard.eduThomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
I am a Professor in the Government Department, Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Faculty director for the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Research Group (Harvard higher education data science group), and Faculty director for the Harvard...
Elena Glassman
glassman@seas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Computer Science
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, specializing in human-computer interaction. I used to wrestle competitively at the collegiate level and do robotics research, which is why my default social...
Elsie Sunderland
ems@seas.harvard.eduFred Kavli Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Evelynn Hammonds
evelynn_hammonds@harvard.eduBarbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
chodorowreich@fas.harvard.eduGeorge Fisher Baker Professor of Economics
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, where I teach Economics 1011B and an advanced Ph.D course. My research covers topics in macroeconomics, finance, and labor markets. I graduated from Harvard in 2005 with a degree in Social...
Gautam Rao
grao@fas.harvard.eduAffiliate
Associate Professor of Business and Economics, UC Berkeley
I work at the economics department at Harvard. My research is at the intersection of economics, psychology and sometimes medicine. I mostly study low and middle-income countries. Recent projects include studying how mixing rich and poor students in...
Greg Kestin
kestin@fas.harvard.eduLecturer on Physics
Associate Director of Science Education
I am a Lecturer in the Physics Department and also serve as the Associate Director of Science Education in FAS. I grew up in Ohio and came to Harvard for graduate school, where I earned my Ph.D. as a member of The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature...
Hannah Marcus
hmarcus@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of the History of Science
Faculty Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
I am an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science. My research focuses on the scientific culture of early modern Europe between 1450 and 1700, and I’m writing books about science and religious censorship, Galileo, and longevity...
