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.

Sara J. Schechner

David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and a Lecturer on History of Science
Daniel Lord Smail

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History
Werner Sollors

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of African American Studies, Emeritus
Pia M. Sörensen

Senior Preceptor in Chemical Engineering and Applied Materials
Diana Sorensen

James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature; Former Dean of Arts and Humanities
Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico
Charles M. Stang

Professor of Early Christian Thought; Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions
John Stauffer

Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University
Susan Rubin Suleiman

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emerita
Elsie Sunderland

Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Michael Szonyi

Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History
Gordon Teskey

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English
Jen Thum

Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Assistant Research Curator
Jeremiah Trimble

Curatorial Associate/Collection Manager Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Fran Ulmer

Former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission; Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School
Alexandra Vacroux

Executive Director of the Davis Center and Lecturer on Government at Harvard University
Mark Van Baalen

Associate of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Naomi Weiss

Professor of the Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of the Classics at Harvard
Mary Elizabeth Wilson MD

Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health