Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
The 2008-09 membership of this Committee had not been determined at the time Courses of Instruction went to press; below is the Committee’s most recent roster. If complete membership information for 2008-09 becomes available, it will be added to the on-line course catalog.
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 (on leave spring term)
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies (on leave 2008-09)
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 (on leave 2008-09)
David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History
John S. Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Central Asian Studies, and Director of the Central Asia Forum
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 (on leave fall 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 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138; 617-495-3777.