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.
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Emily O'Dell
Former postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Bence P. Ölveczky
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
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Samia Omar
Chaplain at Memorial Church, Harvard University
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Ani Patel and Jennifer Burton
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Lino Pertile
Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
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Don Pfister
Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium
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Naomi Pierce
Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Jeffrey Quilter
Former William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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Elizabeth Ross
Founder and Executive Director of the Kasiisi Project
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David Roxburgh
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History; Chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture
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Carol Saivetz
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor to the Security Studies Program, MIT
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James Salzman
Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Visiting Professor of Law
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Sara Schechner
David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
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Sue Weaver Schopf
Distinguished Service Lecturer in Extension and Former Associate Dean, Division of Continuing Education
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Rainer Schultz
Associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies & Resident Director of the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) for Brown University in Havana
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Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music; Professor of African and African American Studies
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Thomas W. Simons Jr.
AM ’59, PhD ’63; Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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James Simpson
Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English
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Daniel Lord Smail
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History
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Werner Sollors
Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of African American Studies, Emeritus