Faculty

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

Michèle Duguay, lecturer in music at Harvard University

Five Questions with Michèle Duguay

A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music

by Olivia Farrar

Joseph Conrad in 1916. In the background, ships entering the Suez Canal, circa 1888-90: harbingers of globalization

Maya Jasanoff sees uses of fiction in study of history

Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.

by Craig Lambert

Changes in climate have surprisingly far-reaching economic effects.

Economists begin quantifying the economic effects of climate change

Climate change has diverse and far-reaching economic effects.

by Katherine Xue

Alison Wood Brooks

Get excited to perform well

Under pressure, getting excited yields better results than remaining calm.

by Erin O’Donnell

Hanoi’s streets (in 2007, above) are now full of motorcycles and scooters, and shop shelves are no longer bare.

Harvard and Vietnam’s economic development

During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.

by John S. Rosenberg

The inscription below this bust of Vidyasagar quotes Rabindranath Tagore: “The chief glories of [his] character were neither his compassion nor his learning, but his invincible manliness and imperishable humanity.” The presence of a garland speaks to the reverence many still feel for the man.

Brief life of Indian reformer Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, by Brian A. Hatcher

Brief life of an Indian reformer: 1820-1891

by Brian A. Hatcher

Michael Gilmore directs the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance. He has used genomic techniques to trace the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance spreads even as scientists and doctors race to stop it

As antibiotic resistance spreads, scientists and doctors race time.

by Katherine Xue

Thomas Rowlandson’s view of the library of the Royal Institution in London, circa 1810

Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students

New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”

by Jonathan Shaw

The front of a papyrus fragment from an early Christian codex on which is written the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, which came to light in 2012.

Papyrus and lampblack from the Gospel of Jesus's Wife appear ancient

Ink and papyrus dating are consistent with an ancient origin.

During a tour of a shantytown in the heart of São Paulo, a resident feigns a wedding proposal to HSPH’s Sarah MacDonald, as University of São Paulo's Ana Carolina Navarrete (left) and HSPH's Panji Hadisoemarto look on.

Harvard students interested in public health gain field experience in Brazil

Students spend their January term immersed in experiential learning.

Thursday evening, Dava Sobel read excerpts from her most recent book, on Copernicus.

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses what convinced Copernicus to publish his work

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.