Acting Chair, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies (Spring 2024) 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;...
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
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... Read more about Mark C. Elliott
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2 Divinity Avenue, 134A, Cambridge, MA 02138
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 ...
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
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...
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
(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
Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Professor of Music, Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of South Asian Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies/ Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology
Research Interests: Music and oral poetry in South Asia, Tajikistan, Northern Afghanistan, and Xinjiang China; Persian/Dari/Tajiki and Wakhi... Read more about Richard Wolf