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.

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
Chair of Department of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

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

kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu

David M. Cutler

Harvard College Professor
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics

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

dcutler@harvard.edu

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
Director, Institute for World Literature

Gen Ed courses:

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

ddamrosc@fas.harvard.edu

Christina Davis

Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Professor of Government

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

cldavis@harvard.edu

Emma Dench

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1007. What Have Athens and Rome to Do with Us? (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

dench@fas.harvard.edu

Christopher Duggan

Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and 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

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society

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

Caroline Elkins

Professor of History and African and African American Studies

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1096. Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World (Histories, Societies, Individuals)

elkins@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

Paul Farmer

Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

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

paul_farmer@hms.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

Jacob Fay

Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1076. Equity and Excellence in K12 American Schools (Ethics & Civics; Histories, Societies, Individuals)

jacob_fay_fas.harvard.edu

Douglas Finkbeiner

Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1024. 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

Peter Galison

Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1013. The Einstein Revolution (Histories, Societies, Individuals; Science & Technology in Society)

galison@physics.harvard.edu

Marjorie Garber

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies

Gen Ed course: Gen Ed 1153. Shakespeare's Timeliness (Aesthetics & Culture)

garber@fas.harvard.edu

Sue Goldie

Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health
Director, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University
Director, Center for Health Decision Science

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

sue_goldie@harvard.edu

Donald Goldmann

Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
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
Co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution

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

agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu