Travel Leaders

With an expert Harvard faculty member or scholar leading the way, each time you travel with Harvard Alumni Travels is truly an educational experience. View the bios below to learn more about each of our study leaders.

Please Note:

We are looking forward to safely traveling once again with alumni and faculty. Our hopeful planning is informed by University precautions and protocols. Due to the pandemic, Harvard has prohibited all University-related travel, both international and domestic, until further notice. Since group travel is planned far in advance, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to confirm your study leader’s participation before cancellation fees begin for your program.

Khalil Abdur-Rashid

Muslim Chaplain; Instructor on Muslim Studies; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
David A. Aguilar

Former Director of Public Affairs and Science Information at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Leeanne E. Alonso

Conservation Scientist with Global Wildlife Conservation
Alfonso Alonso

Conservation Biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Ali S. Asani

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
Andrew Berry

Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Assistant Head Tutor, and Associate of Population Genetics in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Suzanne Preston Blier

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies
Peter Bol

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
R. Nicholas Burns

Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Chair, Program on Transatlantic Relations; Director, Future of Diplomacy Project
Alide Cagidemetrio

Professor Emerita at the Università degli Studi di Venezia
Lynn Chang

Concert violinist
Joyce E. Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History; Affiliate of the Department of History of Science
Herrick Chapman

Professor of History and French Studies at New York University
Lizabeth Cohen

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
James Costa

Research Associate of the Department of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Robert Darnton

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus; University Librarian, Emeritus
Philip J. Deloria

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
Daniel Donoghue

John P. Marquand Professor of English; Continuing Education/Special Program Instructor
Susanne Ebbinghaus

George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and Head, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art Lecturer on the Classics
James Engell

Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature