Alumni Profiles

Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.

Landscape Architect Julie Bargmann Transforming Forgotten Urban Sites

Julie Bargmann and her D.I.R.T. Studio give new life to abandoned mines, car plants, and more.

by Claire Zulkey

Judge Richard Posner, profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer

by Lincoln Caplan

James O’Connell of HMS and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.

Daniel Aaron is profiled by Christoph Irmscher

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Brief life of scientific sleuth Joseph T. Walker, by Thomas W. Walker

Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952

by Thomas W. Walker

Adam Freudenheim brings world literature to young Anglophones

A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Erin Moore clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in "That's Not English"

Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.

by Zara Zhang

From Harvard to Nashville, Wisewater makes music

A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.

by Sophia Nguyen

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

by Sophia Nguyen

Catherine Brekus, Harvard historian, studies women religious leaders

A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America 

by Sophia Nguyen