Alumni & People

curation of alumni people, faculty and student profiles

Conan O’Brien Named Harvard’s 2026 Commencement Speaker

The comedian, host, and 1985 graduate will deliver remarks at the May 28 ceremony. 

by Schuyler Velasco

2019 HAA Award Recipients

For outstanding service to the University

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

Where teachers thrive, students do

Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Can perfect equality exist?

Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.

by John A. Griffin

Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?

In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?

by Cherone Duggan

Social geographer Ryan Enos

The political scientist explains “social geography.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Tackling harassment, athletics, and barriers to foreign scholars and students

Tackling harassment, athletics, and barriers to international scholars and students

by John S. Rosenberg

The Undergraduate on the ethics of gathering knowledge

The Undergraduate explores the ethics of gathering knowledge.

by Julie Chung

Science historian Sarah Richardson profiled by Bennett McIntosh

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.

by Bennett McIntosh

William Monroe Trotter

Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934

by Kerri K. Greenidge