Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
A Harvard Economist Probes the Affordable Housing Crisis
From understanding gender pay gaps to the housing crisis, Rebecca Diamond’s research aims to improve lives.
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
The future of work and the sharing economy
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
Meet Heather Henriksen, director of the Harvard Office for Sustainability
Harvard’s chief sustainability officer on scaling up green solutions while scaling back its environmental footprint
Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
The many roles of Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
Meet Matthew Wittmann, the new curator of The Harvard Theatre Collection
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson
What he learned and what he made of it
Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916