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American Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in American Studies: Philip Deloria

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in American Studies

George J. Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African 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 (on leave 2025-2026)
Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History (Divinity School)
Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America (Divinity School) (on leave 2025-2026)
Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law (Law School)
Myisha Eatmon, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies (Divinity School)
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Professor of History
Terrence L. Johnson, Professor of African and African American Studies
Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English; Harvard College Professor
Anna Lvovsky, Professor of Law (Law School)
Jesse McCarthy, Assistant Professor of English and of African and African American Studies (on leave fall term)
Daniel McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity (Divinity School)
Derek Miller, Professor of English (on leave fall term)
Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Christopher Pexa, Associate Professor of English (on leave fall term)
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 M. Terry, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Alejandra Vela Martinez, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave spring term) (on leave spring term)
Anna Wilson, Assistant Professor Of English

Additional Information

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