On leave for the 2026-27 academic year.
Research interests: Modern Middle Eastern History (Ottoman and Post-Ottoman); Social and Cultural History; Historical Anthropology; Empire/Law
Mestyan is on sabbatical leave during 2026-27. During this period, he is a...
Peter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and holds a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He is also director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East...
Houssem Eddine Chachia is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tunis. His research intricately explores the complex historical trajectories of the Moriscos and Sephardic Jews—two communities profoundly affected by the socio...
As a linguist and scholar of Persian language and literature, my work bridges the fields of language teaching and the politics of literary translation. With graduate training from Allameh Tabataba'i, and over a decade of teaching experience at Yale...
Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the...
Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, began teaching in the Music Department at Harvard in 1999. He has been conducting ethnomusicological research in South Asia since 1982 and in Central Asia since 2012. Author of two monographs...
Aya Khalaf was a Lecturer of Arabic at the TAFL Center for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, Alexandria University, from 2016 to 2024. She also worked as a lecturer of Arabic for non-native speakers in the summer program ARANAS at Al Akhawayn...
Derek Penslar was educated at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Indiana University between 1987 and 1998, when he moved to the University of Toronto. Between 2012 and 2016 Penslar taught at Oxford University...
Mohammad Sagha is a Lecturer in the Modern Middle East at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University where he teaches courses on Islam, history of the region (including Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan), and...
On leave for the 2025-26 academic year.
Lorenzo Bondioli's work investigates the political economy of medieval Islamic empires, aiming to lay bare the antagonistic symbiosis between the merchant and ruling classes, and the ever-embattled entanglement of...