People
Co-Chairs
David Armitage
Early Modern, Intellectual and International History
Erez Manela
Modern international history; US in the world; nationalism and anticolonialism; international development and global health
Affiliated Faculty
Sven Beckert
19th century American, socia, cultural, and transnational history; political economy of capitalism
Sugata Bose
South Asia and comparative dimensions of Modern History across the Indian Ocean
Joyce Chaplin
global travel, maritime studies, planetary environmental history
Alison Frank Johnson
Modern Central Europe; international history; European environmental history.
Maya Jasanoff
Modern British and imperial history; the British Atlantic world
William C. Kirby
Modern China, business and economic development, foreign relations.
Mary Lewis
French and European Imperialism; Social, Legal and Political History
Fredrik Logevall
US foreign relations; Vietnam War
Charles S. Maier
Comparative 20th century European political, economic, and social history; global and international history including comparative empires; Cold War and European-American relations
Terry Martin
Russia/Soviet Union and Central Europe; Soviet history-nationalism, Islam
Serhii Plokhii
Intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe; Yalta conference; Cold War summits
Emma Rothschild
European economic and social history; history of economic thought; international organizations
NOTE: For additional information see the Harvard History Department faculty pages
- Nathan Grau PhD '25
- Rephael Stern PhD '25, BU School of Law
- Jesus Solis PhD '24, Harvard University
- Catherine Boyle PhD '24, Middlebury College
- Aden Knaap PhD '23, Yale University
- Daniel Chardell PhD '23, Yale University
- Bohao Wu PhD '23, Peking University
- Marino Auffant PhD '22, Atlantic Council
- Rachel Steely PhD '22, independent scholar
- Ruodi Duan PhD '22, Haverford College
- Kristin Oberiano PhD '21, Wesleyan University
- Kelly Brignac PhD '21, Colby College
- Ben Goossen PhD '20, George Mason University
- Sam Klug PhD '20, Loyola University Maryland
- Thomas Jamison PhD '20, Naval Postgraduate School
- Barnaby Crowcroft PhD '19, University of Florida
- Joshua Ehrlich PhD '18, University of Macau
- Lydia Walker PhD '18, Ohio State University
- Elizabeth Cross PhD '17, Georgetown University
- Madeleine Dungy PhD '17, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
- Greg Afinogenov PhD '16, Georgetown University
- Jamie Martin PhD '16, Harvard University
- Dzavid Dzanic PhD '16, Austin Peay State University
- Marco Basile PhD '16, NYU Law School
- Holger Droessler PhD '15, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Steven Press PhD '14, Stanford University
- Mira Siegelberg PhD '14, The New School
- Tyler Goodspeed PhD '14, ExxonMobil
- Asher Orkaby PhD '14, Harvard University
- Philippa Hetherington PhD '14, University College London
- Steffen Rimner PhD '14, University College Dublin
- Shirley Ye PhD '13, University of Birmingham
- Hassan Malik PhD '13, Hedge fund analyst
- Jane Hong PhD '13, Occidental College
- Konrad M. Lawson PhD '12, University of St Andrews
- Johan Mathew PhD '12, Rutgers University
- Nick Kapur PhD '12, Rutgers University-Camden
- Heidi Tworek PhD '12, University of British Columbia
- Ian Klaus PhD '11, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Vanessa Ogle PhD '11, Yale University
- Adam Ewing PhD '11, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Antara Datta PhD '10, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Vernie Oliveiro PhD '10, Researcher, Civil Service College, Singapore
- Ann Marie Wilson PhD '10, Leiden University College The Hague
- Sana Aiyar PhD '09, MIT
- Denise Ho PhD '09, Georgetown University
- Loretta Kim PhD '09, Hong Kong University
- Nico Slate PhD '09, Carnegie Mellon University
- Daniel Sargent PhD '08, University of California, Berkeley
- Ken Weisbrode PhD '08, Bilkent University, Ankara
- Alexis Albion PhD '05, International Spy Museum
- Brian DeLay PhD '04, University of California, Berkeley
- Edward Miller PhD '04, Dartmouth College
- Bradley Zakarin PhD '04, Northwestern University
- Paul Mapp PhD '01, William & Mary College
- Barbara Keys PhD '01, Durham University
- David Nickles PhD '00, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
- Jonathan M. Zasloff PhD '00, UCLA Law School
- Xu Guoqi PhD '99, University of Hong Kong
- Jon B. Alterman PhD '97, Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Jonathan Rosenberg PhD '97, Hunter College
- Zachary Karabell PhD '96, River Twice Research
- Daqing Yang PhD '96, GWU Elliott School of International Affairs
- Mark P. Bradley PhD '95, University of Chicago
- Timothy Naftali PhD '93, NYU
- Robert David (KC) Johnson PhD '93, Brooklyn College
- Gunter Bischof PhD '89, University of New Orleans