IAAS People

Rowan Flad

rflad@fas.harvard.edu

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology

Research and Teaching Interests: Chinese Archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; Interregional Interaction and the Proto-Silk-Road; Technology and Technological Change; Specialization; Zooarchaeology. Emergence...

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

vanderk@fas.harvard.edu

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. Recent...

C. Rose Cortese

crcortes@fas.harvard.edu

Program Administrator

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Mark C. Elliott

elliott3@fas.harvard.edu

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 joining the Harvard faculty, Elliott was a member of the history departments at University of California at...

Janet Gyatso

jgyatso@hds.harvard.edu

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 Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory...

Cemal Kafadar

kafadar@fas.harvard.edu

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 teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, history and cinema. His latest...

Jinah Kim

jinahkim@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Academic Year 2024-25

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 and politics, female representations and patronage, issues regarding re-appropriation of sacred objects...

Xiaofei (Sophie) Lei

xlei@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Sophie Xiaofei Lei is a second-year Ph.D. student in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University. She received her BA in Classical Studies and Art History from Smith College and her MA in Regional Studies East Asia at Harvard University, with a...

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Terry Martin

martin11@fas.harvard.edu

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 Suny) of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001)...

Kristen Pearson

kristenpearson@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Inner Asian archaeology and ethnography, pastoral nomadism, craft production, archaeological organics, ancient and ethnographic textiles, human-animal relations, circumpolar archaeology and ethnography.

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Michael Puett

puett@fas.harvard.edu

(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...

David Roxburgh

roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair, History of Art + Architecture

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History Islamic

After growing up in the Borders of Scotland, Roxburgh attended Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art where he completed the MA in Fine Art (1988) in Art History and Studio (welded steel construction and bronze casting). Supported by a Thouron...