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History and East Asian Languages—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and East Asian Languages: Michael J. Puett

Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and East Asian Languages

Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History
Andrew D. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (on leave fall term)
David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History (on leave 2025-2026)
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History
William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies (FAS) and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History
Ian J. Miller, Reischauer Institute Professor of Environmental History
Victor K. Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/phd-history-and-east-asian-languages.