Harvard Faculty Teaching Courses Related to Central Asian Studies

Laura L. Adams
Lecturerer, Dept. of Sociology; Preceptor, Freshman Writing Program, Harvard College
Topics of Teaching and Research: Cultural production in Central Asia

Graham Allison
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Director, Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government
Topics of Teaching and Research: Economic and political development of new Central Asian states
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Graham_Allison

Gulnora Aminova
Instructor
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Central Asian languages; Uzbek dialects; women and Sufism in mediaeval Central Asia

Ali S. Asani
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Study of Religion
Topics of Teaching and Research: Islam in Eastern Islamic World
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/asani.htm

Steve Caton
Professor of Anthropology
Dept. of Anthropology
Topics of Teaching and Research: Anthropology of Islamic societies
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_caton.html

Patricia Chaput
Professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages; Director, Language Program
Dept. of Slavic Languages
Topics of Teaching and Research: Supervision of tutorials in Central Asian and Caucasian languages
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_chaput.html

Timothy J. Colton
Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Dept. of Government
Topics of Teaching and Research: State-building in Russia and Central Asia
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_colton.html

Virginia Danielson
Lecturer
Dept. of Music
Topics of Teaching and Research: Music of Central Asia and Middle East

Gregorz Ekiert
Associate Professor
Dept. of Government
Topics of Teaching and Research: Political transition in former Soviet Union
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/gekiert/

Mark C. Elliot
Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Inner Asian history; Mongolian and Manchu languages
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ealc/people/elliott.html

Byron J. Good
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Dept. of Anthropology, Social Medicine
Topics of Teaching and Research: Medical anthropology; Iranian Azerbaijan
http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp?task=showperson&id=174271373174271375177280&a=hms&r=23&kw=

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Professor of Social Medicine
Dept. of Social Medicine
Topics of Teaching and Research: Social medicine; Iranian Azerbaijan
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/good/

William Graham
Dean (Harvard Divinity School), Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Professor of the History of Religion
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Early religious history of Islam
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/graham.htm

Marshall Goldman
Fellow and Former Associate Director
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Topics of Teaching and Research: Economy of Post-Soviet states
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_goldman.html

Cemal Kafadar
Associate Professor
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: Ottoman history; the Caucasus and Black Sea region
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=19

Edward L. Keenan
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: History of Russia and Islam in Greater Central Asia
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=20

C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
Dept. of Anthropology
Topics of Teaching and Research: Archaeology of Central Asia and the Caucasus

John LeDonne
Visiting Lecturer on History
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: Russian Imperial expansion into Central Asia
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_ledonne.html

Terry Martin
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of History
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: History of the USSR formation of national identity and government
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=41

Roy P. Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of History
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: History of Eastern Islam in the Mediaeval Period
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=30

Gülru Necipoglu
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art
Dept. of Fine Arts
Topics of Teaching and Research: Art and architecture of Central Asia
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/facultyhaamaster_files/necipoglucv.htm

Kelly O'Neill
Assistant Profess
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: History of Russia in the Imperial Period

David Roxburgh
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Dept. of Fine Arts
Topics of Teaching and Research: Central Asian art
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/facultyhaamaster_files/rox.htm

James R. Russell
Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Armenian language and civilization
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/russell.htm

Carol R. Saivetz
Lecturer
Dept. of Social Studies
Topics of Teaching and Research: Foreign policy of new states of Central Asia

John Schoeberlein
Lecturer on Central Asian Studies; Director of the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Ethnic identity, nationalism, conflict and social transformation in Central Asia
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_schoeberlein.html

Engin Sezer
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Turkish and other Turkic languages, linguistics

P. Oktor Skjaervo
Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Iranian languages of Central Asia; Mediaeval Eastern Iranian languages
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/skjaervo.htm

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Topics of Teaching and Research: Sino-Tibetan Relations during the Early 17th-Century; Tibetan-Mongol Relations During the Yuan Dynasty

Frank Vogel
Assistant Professor
Harvard Law School
Topics of Teaching and Research: Islamic law in Central Asia
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/vogel/

Calvert Watkins
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics
Topics of Teaching and Research: Linguistics of the Caucasus and Central Asia
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/people/watkins.html

James L. Watson
John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society; Professor of Anthropology
Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese Studies
Topics of Teaching and Research: Post-Socialist culture in Asia
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_watson_w.html

Rubie S. Watson
Senior Lecturer on Anthropology
Dept. of Anthropology
Topics of Teaching and Research: Post-Socialist culture in the former Soviet Bloc
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_watson_r.html

Martin L. Weitzman
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics
Dept. of Economics
Topics of Teaching and Research: Economics of transition in the former socialist economies
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/weitzman/weitzman.html

Irene J. Winter
Wm. Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts
Dept. of Fine Arts
Topics of Teaching and Research: Art of the Eurasian Steppes
hoart/facultyhaamaster_files/iwcv.doc

Michael Witzel
Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Topics of Teaching and Research: Early History of the Indo-Iranians (S. Russia/Ukraine, Central Asia, Iran, India); Investigation of the Earliest Habitat of the Iranians (Central Asia)
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm

Retired Faculty (Still Involved in the Harvard Community)

Richard Nelson Frye
Aga Khan Professor of Iranian (Emeritus)
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: History and languages of Mediaeval Central Asia

Richard Pipes
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History (Emeritus)
Dept. of History
Topics of Teaching and Research: The Russian Empire and Bolshevik Revolution in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Turkic and Iranian languages and historical texts of Central Asia
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/thackston.htm

Nur O. Yalman
Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
Dept. of Anthropology
Topics of Teaching and Research: Anthropology of the Turkic and Islamic worlds
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_yalman.html