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...

Khaled El-Rouayheb

kel@fas.harvard.edu

James Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in...

Noah Feldman

nfeldman@law.harvard.edu

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and the Founding Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. He is the Chair of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, co-chair...

Rita Hamad

Professor of Social Epidemiology and Public Policy, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Center for Population Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Christina Maranci

cmaranci@fas.harvard.edu

Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies

Christina Maranci grew up in a diasporan Armenian family in Westport, Connecticut. She earned a BA in art history at Vassar, and an MA and PhD at Princeton in the Department of Art and Archaeology. Her work explores the art and culture of Armenia in all...

Tarek Masoud

Tarek_Masoud@harvard.edu

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School

Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research focuses on political development in Arabic-speaking and Muslim-majority countries. He is the author of...

Adam Mestyan

mestyan@fas.harvard.edu

Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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...

Lauren Montague

montague@fas.harvard.edu

Executive Director

Executive Committee Ex Officio

Sandra Naddaff

snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Studies in the Literature Concentration

Senior Lecturer on Literature and Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature

Dean, Harvard Summer School

Professor Naddaff focuses on English, French, Arabic Narrative; 1001 Nights; Translation; Literature and Music; Arab-American Ethnic Identity; Cross-Cultural Literary Relations between the Arab Middle East and western Europe. In 1975, she received her AB...

Derek Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History

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...

Kristen Stilt

kstilt@law.harvard.edu

Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program

Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program

Kristen Stilt is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change, and is a Deputy Dean. Stilt was named a Carnegie...