Faculty

Gen Ed is a unique place where faculty from virtually all of Harvard’s twelve schools offer courses that they've always dreamed -- and students take courses they'll never forget.

Galit Alter

Professor of Medicine
Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1175. Vaccines: History, Science, Policy (Science & Technology in Society)

galter@partners.org

James G. Anderson

Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1167. Climate Crossroads (Science & Technology in Society)

anderson@huarp.harvard.edu

Dimiter Angelov

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History
Affiliate of the Department of the Classics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1088. The Crusades and the Making of East and West (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Arthur Applbaum

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1035: Dissent and Disobedience in Democracies (Ethics & Civics)

arthur_applbaum@hks.harvard.edu

Ali Asani

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1087. Multisensory Religion: Rethinking Islam Through the Arts (Aesthetics & Culture)
Gen Ed 1134. Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

aliasani@fas.harvard.edu

David Atherton

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1067. Creativity (Aesthetics & Culture)

datherton@fas.harvard.edu

Satchit Balsari

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1011. Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

Giovanni Bazzana

Professor of New Testament, Harvard Divinity School
Affiliate of the Department of the Classics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1001. Stories from the End of the World (Aesthetics & Culture)

gbazzana@hds.harvard.edu

Anne Becker

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry
Affiliate of the Department of Anthropology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1093. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health (Science & Technology in Society)

anne_becker@hms.harvard.edu

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1159. American Capitalism (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Robin Bernstein

Harvard College Professor
Dillon Professor of American History
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1113. Race, Gender, and Performance (Aesthetics & Culture)

rbernst@fas.harvard.edu

Andrew Berry

Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Gen Ed courses

Gen Ed 1029. What is Life? From Quarks to Consciousness (Science & Technology in Society)
Gen Ed 1004. Understanding Darwinism (Histories, Societies, Individuals; Science & Technology in Society)

berry@oeb.harvard.edu

Ann Blair

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
Affiliate of the Department of History of Science

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1034. Texts in Transition (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

amblair@fas.harvard.edu

Peter K. Bol

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1136: Power and Civilization: China (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

pkbol@fas.harvard.edu

Allan M. Brandt

Professor of the History of Science
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1170. Confronting Covid-19: Science, History, Policy (Science & Technology in Society)
Gen Ed 1175. Vaccines: History, Science, Policy (Science & Technology in Society)

brandt@fas.harvard.edu

Michael Bronski

Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1130. Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation (Aesthetics & Culture)

bronski@fas.harvard.edu

Janet Browne

Aramont Professor of the History of Science

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1180. Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution (Histories, Societies, Individuals)
Gen Ed 1004. Understanding Darwinism (Histories, Societies, Individuals; Science & Technology in Society)

jbrowne@fas.harvard.edu

Benjamin Buchloh

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Emeritus

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1156. Modern Art and Modernity (Aesthetics & Culture)

bbuchloh@fas.harvard.edu

Stephanie Burt

Professor of English

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1165. Superheroes and Power (Aesthetics & Culture)

burt@fas.harvard.edu

Melani Cammett

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1008. Power and Identity in the Middle East (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

mcammett@g.harvard.edu

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1010. Satire (Aesthetics & Culture)

acpistoja@fas.harvard.edu

Jennifer Carballo

Research Scholar in Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1178. Mexico and the Making of Global Cuisine (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

jcarballo@fas.harvard.edu

Daniel Carpenter

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1032. Res Publica: A History of Representative Government (Ethics & Civics; Histories, Societies, Individuals)

dcarpenter@gov.harvard.edu

Davíd L. Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America
Department of Anthropology and Harvard Divinity School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1148. Moctezuma's Mexico, Then and Now: The Past, the Present and Pandemics in North America (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

dcarrasco@hds.harvard.edu

Bruno Carvalho

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Faculty Affiliate to the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1103. Living in an Urban Planet (Aesthetics & Culture)

bcarvalh@fas.harvard.edu

Steve Caton

Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1177. Language in Culture and Society (Aesthetics & Culture)

caton@wjh.harvard.edu

Joyce Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
Affiliate of the Department of the History of Science

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1147. American Food: A Global History (Histories, Societies, Individuals)
Gen Ed 1117. Nature (Ethics & Civics)

chaplin@fas.harvard.edu

Shaye J.D. Cohen

Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1149. One Book, Two Religions, Many Truths (Aesthetics & Culture)

scohen@fas.harvard.edu

Kathleen Coleman

James Loeb Professor of the Classics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1131. Loss (Aesthetics & Culture)

kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu

David M. Cutler

Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Member of Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1079. Why is There No Cure for Health? (Science & Technology in Society)

dcutler@harvard.edu

Faculty

Galit Alter

James G. Anderson

Dimiter Angelov

Arthur Applbaum

Ali Asani

David Atherton

Satchit Balsari

Giovanni Bazzana

Anne Becker

Sven Beckert

Robin Bernstein

Andrew Berry

Ann Blair

Peter K. Bol

Allan M. Brandt

Michael Bronski

Janet Browne

Benjamin Buchloh

Stephanie Burt

Melani Cammett

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

Jennifer Carballo

Daniel Carpenter

Davíd L. Carrasco

Bruno Carvalho

Steve Caton

Joyce Chaplin

Shaye J.D. Cohen

Kathleen Coleman

David M. Cutler

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