Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Faculty of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies (Chair)
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology
Terry D. Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History
David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History (on leave 2009-10)
Wei-Ming Tu, Harvard Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies (on leave fall term)
Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music
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 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138; 617-495-3777.