# Current and Former Senior Fellows ## Current Senior Fellows [### Alan Garber, ex officio ](https://www.harvard.edu/president/biography/)**Medicine, Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2013 - present [### John Manning, ex officio ](https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/john-f-manning/)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2024 - present [### Hopi Hoekstra, ex officio ](https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/hopi-e-hoekstra)**Evolutionary Biology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2023 - present [### Noah Feldman, Chair ](https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10257/Feldman)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2010 - present *(Chair 2020 - present)* [### Catherine Dulac ](https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/directory/catherine-dulac/)**Molecular & Cellular Biology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2022 - present [### Peter Galison ](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/galison)**History of Science** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1996 - present [### Tamar Gendler, Acting ](https://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/people/tamar-gendler)**Philosophy, Psychology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2026 - present [### Jerry Green ](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6466)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2000 - present [### Bertrand I. Halperin ](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/halperin)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2004 - present [### Joseph Koerner ](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jkoerner/home)**History of Art** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2008 - present [### Elaine Scarry (on leave AY2026-27) ](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/elaine-scarry)**English** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1994 - present [### Naomi Pierce ](https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/naomi-e-pierce)**Biology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1997 - present [### Martin Puchner, Acting ](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/martin-puchner)**Drama, English, Comparative Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2026 - present [### Andrew Strominger ](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/strominger)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2000 - present [### Eric Nelson ](https://ericnelson.scholars.harvard.edu)**History, Political Theory** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2025 - present [### William Todd ](https://faculty.slavic.fas.harvard.edu/william-todd/home)**Slavic Languages & Literatures** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1992 - present [### Xiaowei Zhuang ](https://zhuang.harvard.edu/index.html)**Biophysics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2023 - present ## Current Senior Fellows, Active Emeritus [### Walter Gilbert, Active Emeritus ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gilbert)**Biology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1978 - present *(Chair 1996 - 2020)* [### Barry Mazur, Active Emeritus ](https://people.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/)**Mathematics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2002 - present [### Gregory Nagy, Active Emeritus ](https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/gregory-nagy)**Classics, Comparative Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1999 - present [### Amartya Sen, Active Emeritus ](https://scholar.harvard.edu/sen/home)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1990 - 1998, 2004 - present [### Maria Tatar, Active Emeritus ](https://german.fas.harvard.edu/people/maria-tatar)**Germanic Languages & Literatures** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2010 - present ## Former Senior Fellows *(\* indicates deceased)* [### K. Anthony Appiah ](http://appiah.net/)**Philosophy, Afro-American Studies** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2000 - 2002 [### Bernard Bailyn \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/books/bernard-bailyn-dead.html)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1982 - 1986, 1989 - 2005 [### Lawrence Bacow, ex officio ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/lawrence-bacow)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2018 - 2023 [### Walter J. Bate \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/28/arts/walter-j-bate-81-professor-and-biographer.html)**English Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1963 - 1967 [### George D. Birkoff, ex officio \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-David-Birkhoff)**Mathematics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1935 - 1939 [### Herbert Bloch \* ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/herbert-bloch/)**Latin Language & Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1964 - 1979 [### Derek Bok, ex officio ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_BokCCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0E_z80_lVlOHgmfdVY7TOc)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1971 - 1991, 2006 - 2007 [### Crane Brinton \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_Brinton)**Ancient and Modern History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1939 - 1964 *(Chair 1943 - 1964)* [### Reuben A. Brower \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/29/archives/reuben-brower-educator-critic-cabot-professor-of-english-at-harvard.html)**English Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1967 - 1975 [### Paul Buck, ex officio \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Herman_Buck)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1942 - 1953 [### McGeorge Bundy, ex officio \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/17/us/mcgeorge-bundy-dies-at-77-top-adviser-in-vietnam-era.html)**Political Science** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1953 - 1960 [### John Clive \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/10/obituaries/john-l-clive-harvard-historian-and-an-acclaimed-biographer-65.html)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1975 - 1982 [### James B. Conant, ex officio \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Conant)**Chemistry** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1953 [### Nancy Cott ](https://nancycott.scholars.harvard.edu)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2005 - 2010 ### Charles P. Curtis \* **Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1936 [### Paul Doty \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/science/paul-doty-biochemist-and-arms-control-advocate-dies-at-91.html)**Chemistry, Biochemistry** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1963 - 1981 [### Burton S. Dreben \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/17/us/burton-s-dreben-71-negotiator-in-tense-situations-at-harvard.html)**Philosophy, Mathematical Logic** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1976 - 1989 *(Chair 1976 - 1989)* [### John T. Dunlop, ex officio \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/us/john-dunlop-89-dies-labor-expert-served-11-presidents.html)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1970 - 1973 [### Drew Gilpin Faust, ex officio ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/drew-faust)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2007 - 2018 [### William S. Ferguson \* ](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1954/4/29/retired-professor-william-ferguson-dies-at/)**Ancient History, Classics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1939 - 1942 [### James B. Fisk \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/13/obituaries/james-fisk-bell-labs-executive-and-leader-in-radar-dies-at-70.html)**Engineering, Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1949 [### Franklin L. Ford, ex officio \* ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/09/obituary-franklin-l-ford/)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1968 - 1974, *ex officio* 1962 - 1968 [### Paul A. Freund \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/06/us/paul-a-freund-authority-on-constitution-dies-at-83.html)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1968 - 1978 [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Acting) ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/henry-louis-gates-jr)**African and African American Studies** Years Served as a Acting Senior Fellow: 2022 - 2024 [### Claudine Gay, ex officio ](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay)**Government, African & African American Studies** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2018 - 2024 [### Howard Georgi ](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/georgi)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1982 - 1998 [### Andrew Gleason \* ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/10/distinguished-mathematician-andrew-gleason-dies-at-86/)**Mathematics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1977 - 1996 *(Chair 1989 - 1996)* [### Lawrence J. Henderson \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawrence-Joseph-Henderson)**Physiology, Biochemistry** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1942 *(Chair 1933 - 1942)* ### Frederick L. Hisaw \* **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1942 - 1962 [### David H. Hubel \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hunter-Hubel)**Neurobiology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1971 - 1996 [### Howard M. Jones, ex officio \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mumford_Jones)**English Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1943 - 1944 [### William C. Kirby, ex officio ](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=409749)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2002 - 2006 [### Jeremy Knowles, ex officio \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_R._Knowles)**Chemistry** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1991 - 2002, 2006 - 2007 [### David S. Landes \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/us/david-s-landes-historian-and-author-is-dead-at-89.html)**Economics, History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1987 - 1995 [### Wassily Leontief \* ](https://www.britannica.com/money/Wassily-Leontief)**Economics, Political Economy** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1956 - 1975 *(Chair 1965 - 1975)* [### Jill Lepore ](https://jlepore.scholars.harvard.edu)**History, Law** Years Served as Acting Senior Fellow: 2021 - 2022 [### Harry T. Levin \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/01/obituaries/harry-levin-literary-critic-is-dead-at-81.html)**English & Comparative Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1947 - 1966 [### Abbott L. Lowell \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Lawrence_Lowell)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1943 [### John L. Lowes \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Livingston-Lowes)**English Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1945 [### Samuel E. Morison \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Eliot-Morison)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1936 - 1952 [### Martha Minow ](https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10589/Minow)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1997 - 2018 [### Kenneth B. Murdock, ex officio \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/16/archives/kenneth-murdock-of-harvard-is-dead.html)**English Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1936 [### David R. Nelson ](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/nelson)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1989 - 2003 [### Arthur D. Nock \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Nock)**History of Religion** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1937 - 1963 [### Robert Nozick \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick)**Philosophy** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1991 - 2002 [### David Owen \* ](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/14/89320573.html?pageNumber=47)**History** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1964 - 1968 [### Stephen Owen \* ](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/stephen-owen)**East Asian Languages & Civilizations** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1986 - 1993 [### Renato Poggioli \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Poggioli)**Slavic & Comparative Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1952 - 1963 [### Edward M. Purcell \* ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mills_Purcell)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1949 - 1972 [### Nathan M. Pusey, ex officio \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/us/nathan-pusey-harvard-president-through-growth-and-turmoil-alike-dies-at-94.html)**Classics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1953 - 1971 [### Williard V. Quine \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Van-Orman-Quine)**Philosophy, Mathematical Logic** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1949 - 1978 [### Norman Ramsey \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norman-Foster-Ramsey)**Physics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1971 - 1982 [### Henry Rosovsky, ex officio \* ](https://economics.harvard.edu/people/henry-rosovsky)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1973 - 1984 [### Neil Rudenstine, ex officio ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Rudenstine)**English & American Literature** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1991 - 2001 [### Henry L. Shattuck \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/03/archives/henry-l-shattuck-donor-to-harvard.html)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1944 - 1955 [### Michael D. Smith, ex officio ](https://scholar.harvard.edu/mikesmith/home)**Computer Science** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2007 - 2018 [### Robert Solow \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Solow)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1975 - 1989 [### Jurij Striedter \* ](https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/news/memoriam-professor-jurij-striedter)**Slavic Languages & Literatures** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1978 - 1990 [### Lawrence H. Summers, ex officio ](http://larrysummers.com/)**Economics** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 2001 - 2006 [### Helen Vendler \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/books/helen-vendler-dead.html)**English** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1980 - 1993 [### James D. Watson ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Dewey-Watson)**Genetics, Biochemistry** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1963 - 1971 [### Alfred N. Whitehead \* ](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-North-Whitehead)**Philosophy** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1933 - 1947 [### Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. \* ](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/05/obituaries/charles-e-wyzanski-80-is-dead-judge-on-us-court-for-45-years.html)**Law** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1964 - 1976 [### Nur Yalman \* ](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/news/2026/06/memoriam-nur-o-yalman)**Anthropology** Years Served as a Senior Fellow: 1993 - 2026