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Social Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies: David Armitage

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

Eric Beerbohm, Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Government (on leave spring term)
Christina Ciocca Eller, Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies (on leave fall term)
Gabriella Coleman, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave 2025-2026)
Philip Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History; Harvard College Professor
Katrina Forrester, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave spring term)
Shterna Friedman, Assistant Professor of Government
David N. Glovsky, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History
Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies
Jonathan Hansen, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies
Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies (on leave fall term)
Durba Mitra, Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Amanda Pallais, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
Sarah S. Richardson, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Christopher J. Rominger, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Social Studies
Michael Rosen, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government (on leave 2025-2026)
Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History
Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy (on leave 2025-2026)
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies
Joel Suarez, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies
Brandon Terry, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Adaner Usmani, Associate Professor of Sociology
Moira G. Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life (on leave 2025-2026)
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government

Other Faculty Offering Instruction

Kiku Adatto, Lecturer on Social Studies
Terry Aladjem, Lecturer on Social Studies
Bo-Mi Choi, Lecturer on Social Studies
Charles Clavey, Lecturer on Social Studies
Alison Denton Jones, Lecturer on Social Studies
Nicolas Prevelakis, Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Bonnie Talbert, Lecturer on Social Studies
Don Tontiplaphol, Preceptor in Social Studies
Rosemarie Wagner, Lecturer on Social Studies
Julie Weaver, Lecturer on Social Studies
Robert Willison, Lecturer on Social Studies

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit https://socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu/.