With advice from our Executive Committee, the staff coordinates all aspects of the Mahindra Center’s programs and events. The Center currently hosts six postdoctoral fellows and two dissertation completion fellows. Our seminars are convened by faculty members from Harvard and other colleges and universities in the Boston area.

Robin Kelsey

Dean of Arts and Humanities, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography

Jill Lepore

David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History

Deidre Lynch

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University

Ingrid Monson

Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment; Professor of African and African American Studies

Martin Puchner

Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature

Intisar Rabb

Professor of Law

Director, Program in Islamic Law

Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Tommie Shelby

Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy

James Simpson

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English

Mariano Siskind

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Diana Sorensen

James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Professor of Comparative Literature

Carol Steiker

Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law and Special Advisor for Public Service, Harvard Law School

Houman Harouni

Lecturer on Education

Alani Hicks-Bartlett

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies, Brown University

Aeron Hunt

Associate Professor of English, Boston College

David Jones

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University

Coppélia Kahn

Professor Emerita of English, Brown University

Jess Keiser

Assistant Professor of English, Tufts University

Thomas P. Kelly

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Annabel Kim

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Manja Klemenčič

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University

Hajnalka Kovacs

Preceptor in Hindi and Urdu, Harvard University

Aleksandra Kremer

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University

Susan Lanser

Professor Emerita of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University

Robert Lehman

Associate Professor of English, Boston College

Deidre Lynch

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University

Alejandro Madrid

Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University

Hannah Marcus

Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

Samantha Matherne

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Catherine McKenna

Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Louis Menand

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University

Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences

Noe Montez

Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Tufts University

Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Tufts University

Humphrey Morris

Associate of the Mahindra Center

Psychoanalyst

Ramona Mosse

Lecturer of Theatre and Performance Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Erin Murphy

Associate Professor of English, Boston University

Sandra Naddaff

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Dean, Harvard Summer School

Joseph F. Nagy

Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, Harvard University

Dylan Nelson

PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University

Irene Peirano Garrison

Ruth Perry

Ann Friedlaender Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT

Nicolas Prevelakis

Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies

Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies

Steven Biel

Executive Director

Lisa Brown

Assistant to the Director

Bruno Carvalho

Interim Director, 2023-2024

Suzannah Clark

Director

Julia Corso

Communications & Design Coordinator

Mary MacKinnon

Events Coordinator

Gerta Uruci-Limani

Financial Administrator

Charlotte M. Wittmann

Programs & Events Assistant

Land Acknowledgement

Accessibility

Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard