Travel Study 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.

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
Krishna Lewis

Administrative Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Fellowship Program Director at the Hutchins Center
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 AB '93

Lecturer on Education; Faculty Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program (at Carr Center/HKS)
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
Gregory Nagy

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature; Senior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows; Honorary Associate and Former Master of Currier House
Kelly O'Neill

Imperiia Project Director at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Bence P. Ölveczky

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Samia Omar

Chaplain at Memorial Church, Harvard University
Ted Osius AB '84

former Ambassador of the United States to Vietnam
Ani Patel and Jennifer Burton