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.

Charles Czeisler

Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Sleep Medicine
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1038. Sleep (Science & Technology in Society)

charles_czeisler@hms.harvard.edu

David Damrosch

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1030. The Philosopher and the Tyrant (Ethics & Civics)
Gen Ed 1021. The Stories We Tell (Aesthetics & Culture)

ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu

Christina Davis

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1119. Law, Politics, and Trade Policy: Lessons from East Asia (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

cldavis@harvard.edu

Diane Davis

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design

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

ddavis@gsd.harvard.edu

Daniel Donoghue

John P. Marquand Professor of English

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1182. The English Language Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

Christopher Duggan

Samuel J. Meltzer, MD Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics
Professor in the Department of Nutrition
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Population

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1005. Nutrition and Global Health (Science & Technology in Society)

christopher.duggan@childrens.harvard.edu

Diana Eck

Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Member of Faculty, Harvard Divinity School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1166. Pluralism: Case Studies in American Diversity (Ethics & Civics)

dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu

Carter Eckert

Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1100. The Two Koreas in the Modern World (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

eckert@fas.harvard.edu

James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1167. Climate Crossroads (Science & Technology in Society)
Gen Ed 1082. Elements of Rhetoric (Aesthetics & Culture)

jengell@fas.harvard.edu

Sam Weiss Evans

Research Associate in Computer Science

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1173. Numbers in Policy and Society (Science & Technology in Society)

samuel_evans@harvard.edu

William L. Fash

Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology

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

wfash@fas.harvard.edu

Douglas Finkbeiner

Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1024. Pride & Prejudice & P-values: Scientific Critical Thinking (Science & Technology in Society)

dfinkbeiner@cfa.harvard.edu

Rowan Flad

John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1105. Can We Know Our Past? (Histories, Societies, Individuals; Science & Technology in Society)

rflad@fas.harvard.edu

Sue Goldie

Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1063. World Health: Challenges and Opportunities (Science & Technology in Society)

sue_goldie@harvard.edu

Donald Goldmann

Professor or Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1129. Infectious Diseases and Social Injustice (Science & Technology in Society)

Alyssa Goodman

Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1112. Prediction: The Past and Present of the Future (Science & Technology in Society)

agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu

Andrew Gordon

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1017. Americans as Occupiers and Nation Builders (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

agordon@fas.harvard.edu

Maria Gough

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art

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

gough@fas.harvard.edu

Joshua D. Greene

Professor of Psychology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1046. Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines (Ethics & Civics; Science & Technology in Society)

jgreene@wjh.harvard.edu

David A. Haig

George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1084. The First Nine Months (Science & Technology in Society)

dhaig@oeb.harvard.edu

Edward J. Hall

Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1051. Reclaiming Argument: Logic as a Force for Good (Ethics & Civics)
Gen Ed 1024. Pride & Prejudice & P-values: Scientific Critical Thinking (Science & Technology in Society)

ehall@fas.harvard.edu

John Hamilton

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1020. Security (Ethics & Civics)

jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu

Nicholas Harkness

Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology

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

harkness@fas.harvard.edu

Jay Harris

Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies

Gen Ed courses:

Gen Ed 1009. Who Do You Think You Are? The Ethics of Identity (Ethics & Civics)
Gen Ed 1161. If There is No God, All is Permitted: Theism and Moral Reasoning (Ethics & Civics)

jharris@fas.harvard.edu

Erin Hecht

Assistant Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1056. Human Nature (Science & Technology in Society)

Eric Heller

Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1106. Why You Hear What You Hear: The Science of Music and Sound (Science & Technology in Society)

heller@physics.harvard.edu

Joseph Henrich

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1056. Human Nature (Science & Technology in Society)

henrich@fas.harvard.edu

Jennifer L. Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
Member of the Faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Harvard Kennedy School

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1052. Race in a Polarized America (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

hochschild@gov.harvard.edu