Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
P. Oktor Skjaervo, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian (Chair (fall term)) (on leave spring term)
Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., Professor of the Practice of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages (Acting Chair, Spring Term)
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies (Chair (spring term)) (on leave spring term)
William A. Graham, Jr., Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Milan G. Hejtmanek, Assistant Professor of Korean History
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
David J. Roxburgh, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2001-2002)
Sinasi Tekin, Senior Lecturer on Turkish
Wei-Ming Tu, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies
Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Nur Yalman, Professor of Social Anthropology and of Middle Eastern Studies (on leave spring term)
The Committee supervises the work of graduate students whose interest in Inner Asia is not confined to languages alone, or history alone, but encompasses linguistics, history, religion, art history, and general cultural study. Courses relating to Inner Asian Studies are given by members of the Committee and other faculty in the departments of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History,
History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and by the Committee on the Study of Religion. Interested students should consult these sections of the catalog. The Committee has offices at Coolidge Hall 102, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138; (617) 495-3777.