Faculty

Andrew Gordon

agordon@fas.harvard.edu

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

On leave Fall 2025

Andrew Gordon’s teaching and research focus primarily on modern Japan but he has also taught Japan’s premodern history and courses on comparative history of labor. He has written, edited, or translated numerous books, including one that won the John King...

Yimo Guo

yimoguo@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Janet Gyatso

jgyatso@hds.harvard.edu

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity School

Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies, concentrating on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary (Princeton, 1998); In the Mirror of...

Luping He

luping_he@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Asako Higurashi

asakohigurashi@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Japanese

David L. Howell

dhowell@fas.harvard.edu

Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History

Professor of History

On leave 2025-26

Professor David L. Howell grew up in Hilo, Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, he studied at Hokkaido University in Sapporo and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in History. He taught at the University of...

Yi-Ting Huang

yitinghuang@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Chinese

Hana Ikeda

hikeda@fas.harvard.edu

Acting Preceptor in Japanese

Language Instructor in Japanese

Wesley Jacobsen

jacobsen@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language

Director of the Japanese Language Program

On Leave Fall 2024

Professor Wesley Jacobsen was born in Tokyo and raised largely in Japan, returning to the U.S. in his later high school years. After graduating from Wheaton College (Illinois) with undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Religious Studies, he pursued a...

Wooyoung Jee

wjee@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Korean

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Yuko Kageyama-Hunt

kageyama@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Preceptor in Japanese

On leave in academic year 2025-26

Yuko Kageyama-Hunt has been teaching in the Japanese Language Program (JLP) since 2001, first as a preceptor, then since 2013 as senior preceptor. She has taught and/or revamped the curricula of several levels of instruction in the JLP. As senior...

Thomas P. Kelly

thomas_kelly@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

I am a scholar of Chinese literature with related research interests in the history of writing, material culture, and pre-modern media studies. My first book, The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China (Columbia UP, 2023)...