Faculty & Community

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

In Sermon, Garber Urges Harvard Community to ‘Defend and Protect’ Institutions

Harvard’s president uses traditional Memorial Church address to encourage divergent views.

by Jonathan Shaw

Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia

Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

William Morris Davis

Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist

by Philip S. Koch

“Rebellious Lawyering” author Gerald López: a profile

Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon in the Spotlight

Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft

by Brandon J. Dixon

Unequal Distribution of Incomes

The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth

by Richard B. Freeman

Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection

Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?

Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.

by Oset Babür

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries