Harvard Faculty Teaching Courses Related to Central Asian Studies

Laura L. Adams
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

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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

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

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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

Yoshiko Herrera
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Government
Topics of Teaching and Research: Political economy of post-Soviet states
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~herrera/

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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

Hakan Karateke
Preceptor in Modern Turkish Language
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Topics of Teaching and Research: Turkic languages
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/karateke.htm

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
1730 Cambridge Street Rm S-320
Cambridge, MA 02138
centasiafas.harvard.edu
617-496-2643 | 617-495-8319 (fax)