Faculty Committee

Charles Alcock

DONALD H. MENZEL PROFESSOR OF ASTROPHYSICS
SENIOR ASTROPHYSICIST AT THE SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS | HARVARD & SMITHSONIAN

Charles Alcock was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and at the California Institute of Technology. He has previously been a long-term...

Laura Alfaro

WARREN ALPERT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. She is also a Faculty Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic...

Mercedes Becerra

PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE, HMS

Mercedes Becerra is a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Harvard...

Sven Beckert

LAIRD BELL PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University. Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United...

Tania Bruguera

SENIOR LECTURER IN MEDIA & PERFORMANCE, THEATER, DANCE & MEDIA
AFFILIATE OF ART, FILM, AND VISUAL STUDIES
INTERIM CHAIR, CUBA STUDIES PROGRAM, 2022-2023

Tania Bruguera is a Cuban artist and activist whose performances and installations examine political power structures and their effect on society's most...

Flavio du Pin Calmon

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Flavio du Pin Calmon is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

Davíd Carrasco

NEIL L. RUDENSTINE PROFESSOR OF THE STUDY OF LATIN AMERICA, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Davíd Carrasco is a Mexican American historian of religions with particular interest in Mesoamerican cities as symbols, and the Mexican-American...

Bruno Carvalho

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies
CO-CHAIR, ARTS FACULTY COMMITTEE

Bruno Carvalho works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, specializing on Brazil...

Marcia Castro

ANDELOT PROFESSOR OF DEMOGRAPHY; CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH AND POPULATION, HSPH
CHAIR, BRAZIL STUDIES PROGRAM FACULTY COMMITTEE

Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health,...

Sidney Chalhoub

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Sidney Chalhoub is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the...

Michael Chu

SENIOR LECTURER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Michael Chu's research and teaching at Harvard Business School focuses on businesses serving low-income populations in both emerging markets and developed...

Thomas B. F. Cummins

DUMBARTON OAKS PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF PRE-COLUMBIAN AND COLONIAL ART
CO-CHAIR, ARTS FACULTY COMMITTEE
Director of Dumbarton Oaks

Thomas Cummins is The Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art. He has a PhD from UCLA, 1988. He taught for...

Emmerich Davies

Assistant Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Emmerich Davies specializes in education policy and politics, the political economy of development, and the politics of service provision, with a regional...

Charles Davis

PROFESSOR OF ORGANISMIC AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
CURATOR OF VASCULAR PLANTS, HARVARD HERBARIA

Charles Davis' research on plant diversity integrates the disciplines of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology. One major...

Diane E. Davis

CHARLES DYER NORTON PROFESSOR OF REGIONAL PLANNING AND URBANISM, GSD
CO-CHAIR, MEXICO FACULTY COMMITTEE

Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the...