Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism
Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine
The when and how of vaccines
Harvard Portrait: Melissa Dell
“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.
Harvard fall coronavirus decisions
The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond
“Lives in Limbo”—Roberto Gonzales tallies the human and social costs
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
Nicholas Burns on diplomacy’s role in fostering U.S. standing in the world
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
Music theorist Alexander Rehding profiled by Jacob Sweet
A professor’s interstellar reach
by Jacob Sweet
Excerpt from Marjorie Garber, “Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession”
Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.
Excerpt from Alex Keyssar “Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”
Problematic features of the Electoral College
Canine behavioral specializations reflected in brain structures
Researchers hope to tease out the effects of breeding and training on dog brain structure.