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Ben Franklin’s Project
Joyce E. Chaplin, Phillips professor of early American history, is a multitool scholar, working across fields including the history of science, climate, colonialism, and environment. That breadth of expertise is reflected in her affiliate appointments, …
Issue: May-June 2025
Mysterious Minis
Two miniature mosaics, each the size of a Kindle and shrouded in mystery, depict 41 male figures. Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks, where the mosaics are part of the Byzantine collection, know roughly when they were made (the early fourteenth century) and …
Issue: March-April 2024
Off the Shelf
Immigration Economics, by George J. Borjas , Scrivner professor of economics and social policy (Harvard, $49.95). A Kennedy School scholar’s technical synthesis of the theories and models used to analyze the flow of labor across boundaries. The …
Issue: September-October 2014
Avant-garde, Post-Romantic
There is nothing casual about the music of composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10. “I’m drawn to highly, highly pigmented emotions,” she says. “Things have to be the most fully realized they can possibly be.” That was certainly the case in 2010, when a thief …
Issue: January-February 2013
Heads of the Parade
“I don’t think we have reunions anymore,” said George Post ’45, who turns 102 in the fall, at this year’s third annual Alumni Day, on Friday, May 31. Post—the oldest alumnus at this year’s Alumni Day by three months, who marks his seventh-ninth reunion …
Model Masterpieces
Before the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini crafted the angels of gilded bronze that flank the Altar of the Blessed Sacrament in Saint Peter’s Basilica, he made at least five terracotta models. They stand at about a foot tall, and unlike the larger …
Issue: May-June 2024
Ledecky Fellowship
The Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellowship program, supported by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother,enables the magazine to appoint two undergraduates to the editorial staff each academic year. The fellows …
Beyond Empowerment
One of the first clubs I joined at Harvard was the Women’s Initiative in Leadership (WIL), a weekly speaker series offered by the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. I’ve been a feminist since I was a preteen, though the way I defined that word then …
Issue: January-February 2025
Ring of the Road
Currently, 94 million Americans own a cellular phone, and 90 percent of those owners make calls while driving. Although cell phones appeared on the U.S. market only in the mid 1980s, a majority of Americans will own one by the year 2005 if the trend …
Regional Culinary Specialties—Caribbean & Latin America
An article by Cassandra Lucca, Let’s Go Editor-in-Chief and Danielle Eisenman, Let’s Go Associate Editor Though the burrito is a mainstay of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine well-known in the US, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean offers other equally …
A Royal Tunic
With stitches as dense as an iPad’s pixels, this woven tunic represents the pinnacle of Inca artistry. The brutal Spanish conquest and the unforgiving march of time have destroyed most Inca textiles, but the tunic now at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, …
Issue: July-August 2024
Gilbert and Sullivan, Today
ASher Chamoy ’25 tried multiple times, to no avail, to convince his high school to mount a work by the Victorian dramatist-composer duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. “I was always trying to get them to do The Pirates of Penzance or some other G&S …
Issue: November-December 2024
On Your Behalf
We are proud to recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine for their superb work on your behalf during 2023, and to confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature James Engell has …
Issue: January-February 2024
Education School Announces Interim Dean
Thursday morning , the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) announced that Larsen professor of education and human development Nonie Lesaux will serve as interim dean when Dean Bridget Long steps down at the end of the academic year . Lesaux, who …
Financial Update: Harvard Retains Triple-A Rating, Princeton Foresees Deeper Cuts
Moody's Investors Service , the credit-rating agency, has issued a review of Harvard's creditworthiness, and maintained its Aaa and associated ratings on $5.8 billion of outstanding debt, with a "stable" outlook for the future. Its evaluation, released on …