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

by Olivia Farrar

A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome

Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.

by John A. Griffin

Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen

Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.

by Jonathan Shaw

Democracy’s Prospects TK

A Harvard Magazine Roundtable

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

The argument for geographically targeted economic interventions

Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?

by Oset Babür

When Capital Trumps Labor

In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.

by John A. Griffin

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