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.

Current Travel Study Leaders

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
Martin Surbeck

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Gordon Teskey

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English
Jen Thum

Associate Director of Academic & Campus Partnerships and Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums
Jeremiah Trimble

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

Senior Fellow at the HKS Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Alexandra Vacroux

Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Mark Van Baalen

Associate of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Hannah Waits

Lecturer in History and Literature
Naomi Weiss

Professor of the Classics
Gavin H. Whitelaw

Executive Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies