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American Studies—Chairs and Directors

Director of Graduate Studies: Daniel McKanan

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in American Studies

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History
Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Harvard College Professor
Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History (Divinity School)
Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America (Divinity School)
Philip Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law (Law School)
Henry L. Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor
Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School)
Ju Yon Kim, Professor of English
Jesse McCarthy, Assistant Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Daniel McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity (Divinity School)
Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies
Julie Reuben, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education (School of Education)
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies
Brandon Terry, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies

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Additional Information

For additional information, please visit http://americanstudies.fas.harvard.edu/