Alumni

Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.

Harvard Elects New Overseers, HAA Directors

Leaders for the governing board and alumni association were chosen by an alumni vote.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Profile of photography curator Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Alain Locke as activist aesthete

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"

A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.

by Bailey Trela

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs for 2018

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention

Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.

by William N. Thor...

Bryan Stevenson on the Evolution of White Supremacy

“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Hope and despair, harmony and discord: Jonathan Bailey Holland, profiled

Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice  

by Jennifer McFarl...