Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
Meet the Harvard Alumni Association’s New President
David Battat promotes alumni engagement.
“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Boston Roller Derby
Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters in Cambridge—the brainchild of Aaron MacDougall
An antidote to Starbucksification?
Profile of photography curator Makeda Best
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert