Staff Profile
Manager of Student Programs
camran_mani@harvard.edu / 617-496-1017
Ph.D. (A.B.D.), Harvard University
M.A., Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Camran Mani has multiple roles in the Division of Academic and Public Programs. He directs the Ho Family Student Guide Program, in which Harvard undergraduate students create and lead original, research-based tours of the Harvard Art Museums. He also manages the museums’ U.S. Citizenship Course, a collaboration between the Student Guides and the St. Mark Community Education Program in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which helps aspiring citizens prepare for the naturalization test. He supports course visits to the museums; serves as a museum liaison to the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative; and assists with a broad range of other activities, including program development and administration. His research and teaching interests have focused on modernist art (notably Matisse, Cubism, muralism, and abstraction) and the history of art history.
Recent Publications
Mani, Camran, and Cecilia Y. Zhou, eds. A Collection of Perspectives: Ho Family Student Guides at the Harvard Art Museums. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2023.
“A Malcolm X Monument: Notes on Gordon Parks’s Untitled, Phoenix, Arizona, 1963,” in “Celebrating Juneteenth: The Power of Portraits.” Index (June 17, 2021).
Waschek, Matthias, et al. Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer. Saint Louis, Mo.: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2009.
Mani, Camran, ed. The Light Project. Saint Louis, Mo.: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2008.
Waschek, Matthias, et al. Dan Flavin: Constructed Light. Saint Louis, Mo.: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2008.