# IAAS Committee Members ## expand\_more [### Rowan Flad ](/people/rowan-flad) 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... ![Rowan Flad headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/Rowan%20Flad_0.jpeg?itok=fwxrLqIL) [### Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp ](/people/leonard-w-van-der-kuijp) 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... ![leonard_van_der_kuijp](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-07/leonard_van_derkuijp.jpg?itok=asUYeyN0) [### Mark C. Elliott ](/people/leonard-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 joining the Harvard faculty, Elliott was a member of the history departments at University of California at... ![Mark Elliott headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/07.27.23_mark-elliott_headshot_1.jpeg?itok=rsAjjmaE) [### Janet Gyatso ](/people/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 Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory... ![Janet Gyatso headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/gyatsojanet_132.jpg?itok=WSaTiUkJ) [### Cemal Kafadar ](/people/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 teaches courses on Ottoman history, urban space, travel, popular culture, history and cinema. His latest... ![Cemal Kafadar headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/cemal-kafadar.jpg?itok=p6ztv_c-) [### Jinah Kim ](/people/jinah-kim) 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... ![Jinah Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/iaas/files/kim_bw.jpg?itok=0toceEIY) [### Terry Martin ](/people/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 Suny) of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001)... ![Terry Martin headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/martin_terry.jpg?itok=pB3P8uDg) [### Michael Puett ](/people/michael-puett-leave-academic-year-2019-2020) (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... ![Michael Puett headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/michael%20puett%20cropped.jpg?itok=1_P_Wiy4) [### Eugene Wang ](/people/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 of Buddhism (2004), and the author of numerous publications ranging from early Chinese bronzes to... ![Eugene Wang headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/Eugene_Wang.jpeg?itok=4ocwOy2Y) [### Richard Wolf ](/people/richard-wolf) 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 languages in Central Asia, Tamil, Urdu and Kota in South Asia ![Richard Wolf headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-06/Richard-Wolf.jpg?itok=Q86_PE77)