People

Salmaan Keshavjee

Salmaan_Keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu

CMES Interim Director

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Executive Committee Chair

Dr. Keshavjee is a professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as a physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He...

Leila Ahmed

leila_ahmed@harvard.edu

Victor S. Thomas Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Leila Ahmed came to the Divinity School in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003. Prior to her appointment at HDS, she was professor of women's studies and Near Eastern studies...

Didar Ayşe Akbulut

didarakbulut@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

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Hasibe Akın Demir

hasibe@caticiftligi.com

PhD Candidate, Landscape Department, Istanbul Technical University

Hasibe Akın graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) in 2012 and completed her master's thesis in İTÜ's Architectural Design Program. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis in the İTÜ Landscape...

Sultan Alamer

salamer@fas.harvard.edu

Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace

Sultan Alamer is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Program. His research focuses on nationalism and state-formation, governance and technology, regional politics in the broader Middle East, with a special focus on the Arabian Peninsula...

Sarah Allen

sarahgraceallen@g.harvard.edu

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East

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Hanna Alshaikh

halshaikh@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Hanna Alshaikh is a researcher of Arab and Palestinian intellectual history in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD program. Her research examines the role of the Palestinian diaspora in Arab world political discourse, with a special focus on...

Dimiter Angelov

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the intellectual, political, and institutional history of the Byzantine Empire. His diverse scholarly interests include empire and...

Francesco Anselmetti

fanselmetti@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Francesco entered Harvard’s Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. His doctoral research examines the formation of social classes and modern states in the Eastern Mediterranean over the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries...

Jesse Arlen

jarlen@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jesse S. Arlen is Lecturer in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles and book chapters relating to medieval religious literature and intellectual history, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the...

Ali Asani

aliasani@fas.harvard.edu

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Committee on the Study of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

On leave Ali Asani is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures. After completing his high school education in Kenya, he attended Harvard College, with a concentration in the...

Gayane Ayvazyan

gayvazyan@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies

Gayane Ayvazyan entered the Joint PhD Program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021. At Harvard, her aim is to analyze and explain the transformations of the interconnected networks and organization of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...