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
(on leave Fall 2022) 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 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
Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Inner Asian archaeology and ethnography, pastoral nomadism, craft production, archaelogical organics, ancient and ethnographic textiles, human-animal...
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 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)... Read more about David Roxburgh
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138485 Broadway,
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MA 02138
Room 410
Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
The history of Tibetan medicine in Russia; Tibetan Buddhism in Buryatia; Inner Asian frontier regions; Post-imperial Inner Asia; Post-socialist Siberia and... Read more about Tcybzhid Tcybikova