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.

Hopi Hoekstra

Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences; Curator Of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (on leave)
Noel Michele Holbrook

Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry; Director of the Harvard Forest
Sahand Hormoz

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Daniel Jacob

Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
Maya Jasanoff

Coolidge Professor of History; Harvard College Professor
Walter Johnson

Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies
Thomas Forrest Kelly

Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music
William Kirby

T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Niall Kirkwood

Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture
Daniel Lieberman

Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences
Zarin Machanda

College Fellow in Human Evolutionary Biology
L. Mahadevan

Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Physics and Co-Faculty Dean of Mather House; Area Chair for Applied Mathematics
Amala Mahadevan

Co-Faculty Dean of Mather House
James Mallet

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in Residence; Associate of Population Genetics in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Erez Manela

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Lecturer on Education
Michael McCormick

Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Christie McDonald

Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature and of Comparative Literature; Honorary Associate and Former Faculty Dean of Mather House
Catherine McKenna

Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Stephen A. Mitchell

Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore