IAAS Committee

Leonard van der Kuijp

Professor Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

ON LEAVE Spring 2024
Chair, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Department of South Asian Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Leonard van der Kuijp is professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Best known for his studies of Buddhist epistemology, he is the author of numerous works on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.... Read more about Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Department of South Asian Studies,
1 Bow Street, Room 311,
Cambridge MA 02138
p: 617 496-6871
Mark C. Elliott

Professor Mark C. Elliott

Director of Graduate Studies and Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Mark Elliott has been at Harvard since 2003, having earned his B.A. and M.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. at University of California at Berkeley. Before...
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Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2 Divinity Avenue, 134A, Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617 496-6040
Janet Gyatso

Professor Janet Gyatso

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity School

Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include ...

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Cemal Kafadar

Professor Cemal Kafadar

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History
Prof. Kafadar is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the late medieval/early modern era. He... Read more about Cemal Kafadar
Robinson Hall
Room l-01
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-496-5389
Jinah Kim

Professor Jinah Kim

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art and Professor of South Asian Studies
Department of History of Art + Architecture

Professor Kim’s research and teaching interests cover a broad range of topics with special interests in intertextuality of text-image relationship, art...

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485 Broadway,
Cambridge,
MA 02138
Room 512
p: 617.495.9538
Terry Martin

Professor Terry Martin

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History
Terry Martin is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939(Cornell UP, 2001) and co-editor (with Ronald... Read more about Terry Martin
Center for Government and International Studies-South Building
Room S328
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-495-9895
Michael Puett

Professor Michael Puett

(On leave 2023-2024) Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard College Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology.  He holds a joint appointment in the EALC and Anthropology departments. He is also a non-resident long-term fellow for programs in anthropological and historical sciences and the languages and civilizations of East Asia at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. Puett joined the Harvard faculty in 1994 after earning his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His interests focus on the inter-relations between religion, anthropology, history, and philosophy. In his research, Puett aims to bring the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks.... Read more about Michael Puett
Eugene Wang

Professor Eugene Wang

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Department of History of Art + Architecture

Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia...

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p: 617.495.0845