People

Carolyn Abbate

cabbate@fas.harvard.edu

Paul 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...

Christopher Afendulis

christopher_afendulis@harvard.edu

Associate of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Shivi Aggarwal

shiaggarwal@mba2027.hbs.edu

Resident Tutor

MBA/MS Program

Hello Lowellians! I'm Shivi (Shivani), and it brings me great joy to be part of this community as one of your Resident Tutors, with a focus on Pre-Careers and CARE. I’m currently a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School, part of the MS/MBA...

Leila Ahmed

leila_ahmed@harvard.edu

Victor S. Thoms Professor of Divinity

I am Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, at HDS. I focus on women in religion and on issues of religion, gender and identity in both my teaching and research. My particular research interest is in relation to women and Islam: originally in relation...

Anna Lea Albright

annaleaalbright@fas.harvard.edu

Non Resident Tutor

Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Hi Lowellians! I’m Anna Lea, a former resident tutor. I’m currently an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard Center for the Environment, where I work on making rainfall predictions more reliable and on using weather and climate data to better understand...

Sandy Alexander

sandy_alexander@post.harvard.edu

Affiliate in Law

Founder of Lowell Speeches Program

By day, I work for Massachusetts as an Assistant Attorney General. This year, I'm leading a team fighting the opioid epidemic, including a suit by our state against Purdue Pharma. By night, I help create our Lowell Speeches. I grew up in North Carolina...

Mary Alexander

mpalexander@gmail.com

Affiliate

Pediatrician, Belmont Cambridge Health Care

I am a pediatrician and mother to Lucy (13) and Susan (11). Before completing my MD at HMS, I worked with Partners In Health on tuberculosis in Peru, earned my MPH and a BA in biology and anthropology at UNC, and survived a wild childhood in NC and...

Alexandra Amati

aamati.sf@gmail.com

Instructor, Harvard Extension School

Professor Emerita of Music, University of San Francisco

I am an Italian musicologist, teaching at the Harvard Extension School and a couple of other places. I taught at the University of San Francisco for 25 years, where I created the music program, and am now a Professor Emerita. While I was doing my PhD I...

Jesse Amato-Grill

jesse.amatogrill@gmail.com

Affiliate

Engineering

I am a physicist working on quantum technologies at a startup in Boston. I attended Harvard for my PhD, where I was inexorably drawn into Lowell's orbit by the vibrant and welcoming community. I love talking about science and technology, their effects on...

William (Billy) An

wan@hsdm.harvard.edu

Non-resident Tutor

DMD Candidate, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Hi everyone, my name is Billy and I’m a third year at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine! I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied Biology and Biomedical Physics at WashU during my undergrad. Between undergrad and grad school, I spent...

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...

Denis Auroux

auroux@math.harvard.edu

Herchel 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...