IAAS Committee Members
Rowan Flad
rflad@fas.harvard.eduCommittee 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.eduChair, 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...
Mark C. Elliott
elliott3@fas.harvard.eduDirector 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.eduCommittee 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.eduCommittee 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.eduOn 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...
Terry Martin
martin11@fas.harvard.eduCommittee 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)...
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...
Eugene Wang
eywang@fas.harvard.eduCommittee 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 of Buddhism (2004), and the author of numerous publications ranging from early Chinese bronzes to...
Richard Wolf
rwolf@fas.harvard.eduCommittee 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 languages in Central Asia, Tamil, Urdu and Kota in South Asia
