Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
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
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.
Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
“Rebellious Lawyering” author Gerald López: a profile
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice