IAAS Committee Members

 

Leonard W. van der Kuijp, Chairman IAAS

Faculty Chair, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan StudiesDepartment of South Asian Studies; East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
1 Bow Street, Room 311, (617) 496-6871, vanderk@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: Tibetan history, culture and civilization, 13th-15th centuries; Tibetan Buddhism

 

 

 

Mark C. Elliott,  Director of Graduate Studies IAAS

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
2 Divinity Avenue, Room 134A, (617) 496-5343, elliott3@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: social, political, and institutional history of China and Inner Asia; Manchu studies

 


 

Rowan Flad

Associate Professor of Anthropology 
Anthropology 
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, (617) 495-1966, rflad@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests:
 emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China

 

 

 

Janet Gyatso

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies 
Divinity School 
Divinity Hall, Room 318, (617) 384-8000,
janet_gyatso@harvard.edu 
Research Interests:
Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas, with a focus on Tibetan literature and practice


 

 

 

 

Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, History Dept. Robinson Hall, Room 212, (617) 496-5389, kafadar@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era

 

 

 

 

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology 
Anthropology 
Peabody Museum, Room 57 J, (617) 496-8162, karlovsk@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: the urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction

 

 

 

Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies 
History 
CGIS South, Room 328, (617) 495-9895, martin11@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: Russia/Soviet Union and Central Europe; Soviet history-nationalism, politics, sociology, surveillance, Islam

 

 

 

 

Kelly O'Neill

Assistant Professor of History 
History 
CGIS South, Room 329, (617) 496-7293, koneill@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: Imperial Russia; Economy and trade in the Black Sea; Comparative Social and Cultural History

 

 

 

 

Michael J. Puett

Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2011-2012) 
East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
2 Divinity Avenue, Room 224, (617) 495-8360, puett@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China

 

 

 

 

David J. Roxburgh

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History 
History of Art and Architecture 
Sackler Museum, (617) 496-1056, roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: Islamic art and architecture

 


 

 

P. Oktor Skjaervo

Aga Khan Professor of Iranian (on leave spring 2012) 
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 
Semitic Museum 
6 Divinity Avenue, Room 207, (617) 496-5756, skjaervo@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: Old Iranian languages, literature, and religions

 

 

 

 

Michael Witzel

Wales Professor of Sanskrit 
Department of South Asian Studies 
1 Bow Street, Room 318, (617) 496-8570, witzel@fas.harvard.edu 
Research Interests: history; ancient and medieval Nepal; Old Iran; comparative Eurasian mythology; Archaic India; Sanskrit; Vedic

 

   

 

Richard K. Wolf

Professor of Music 
Music 
Music Building, North Harvard Yard, (617) 495-2791, rwolf@fas.harvard.edu