# IAAS Committee Members Sort [Mark C. Elliott](http://scholar.harvard.edu/elliott/home) Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History East Asian Languages and Civilizations[ ](mailto:///janet_gyatso@harvard.edu) 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 134A, (617) 496-5343, [elliott3@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///elliott3@fas.harvard.edu)[ ](mailto:///elliott3@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** social, political, and institutional history of China and Inner Asia; Manchu studies [Leonard W. van der Kuijp](http://harvard.academia.edu/LeonardvanderKuijp), IAAS Chair Faculty Chair and DGS for Fall 2016; Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Department of South Asian Studies; East Asian Languages and Civilizations 1 Bow Street, Room 311, (617) 496-6871, [vanderk@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///vanderk@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** Tibetan history, culture and civilization, 13th-15th centuries; Tibetan Buddhism ![Rowan Flad headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-06/Rowan%20Flad_0.jpeg) [Rowan Flad](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/flad/projects.htm) Associate Professor of Anthropology Anthropology Department Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, (617) 495-1966, [rflad@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///rflad@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China [Janet Gyatso](http://hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso) Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Divinity School Divinity Hall, Room 318, (617) 384-8000, [janet\_gyatso@harvard.edu](mailto:///janet_gyatso@harvard.edu) ****Research Interests:**** Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas, with a focus on Tibetan literature and practice Sort ![Cemal Kafadar headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-06/cemal-kafadar.jpg) [Cemal Kafadar ](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/cemal-kafadar) Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, History Departmentt. Robinson Hall, Room 1-01, (617) 496-5389,[ kafadar@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///kafadar@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era ![Terry Martin headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-06/martin_terry.jpg) [Terry Martin](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/terry-martin) George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies History Department CGIS South, Room 328, (617) 495-9895, [martin11@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///martin11@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** Russia/Soviet Union and Central Europe; Soviet history-nationalism, politics, sociology, surveillance, Islam ![puett_sm.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/iaas/files/puett_sm.jpg) [**Michael J. Puett**](http://scholar.harvard.edu/puett/home) Professor of Chinese History East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 224, (617) 495-8360, [puett@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///puett@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China ![roxburgh_sm.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/iaas/files/roxburgh_sm.jpg) [David J. Roxburgh](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-roxburgh) Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History (on leave 2017-18) History of Art and Architecture 2 Arrow Street, (617) 496-1056,[ roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** Islamic art and architecture ![Prof. Eugene Wang photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/iaas/files/wangeugene_crop2.jpg) [Eugene Wang](https://scholar.harvard.edu/ewang) Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Dept of History of Art and Architecture 2 Arrow Street, room 341, (617) 495-0845, [eywang@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///eywang@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests**: Chinese art history from ancient funerary art to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema ![witzelmichaelimages.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/iaas/files/witzelmichaelimages.jpg) [Michael Witzel](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm) Wales Professor of Sanskrit Department of South Asian Studies 1 Bow Street, Room 318, (617) 496-8570, [witzel@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///witzel@fas.harvard.edu) **Research Interests:** history; ancient and medieval Nepal; Old Iran; comparative Eurasian mythology; Archaic India; Sanskrit; Vedic [Richard Wolf ](http://music.fas.harvard.edu/people.shtml#faculty) Professor of Music *(on leave AY 2018-19)* Music Department Music Building, North Harvard Yard, (617) 495-2791,[ rwolf@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///rwolf@fas.harvard.edu) **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