Jascha Smillack is the Director of HarvardX Courses. Jascha joined HarvardX in 2013 and has worked as a Project Lead, Senior Project Lead, and Manager of Instructional Development. His courses include Justice, Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles (Co-lead), Visualizing Japan (finalist for the 2015 Japan Prize), the First Nights series, Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract (edX Prize finalist in 2016), Poetry in America - Modernism, The Pyramids of Giza, and others. Prior to HarvardX, Jascha worked across multiple institutions in higher ed, including at Harvard since 2003. He taught Chinese literature at Tufts University and courses in East Asian Comparative Literature at Boston University. Jascha holds a B.A. from Kenyon College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his free time, Jascha enjoys crossword puzzles, winemaking, jamming, drawing, and horology.