Humanities & Arts

Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio smiling beside the pink cover of her novel "Catalina" featuring a jeweled star and eye.

Being Undocumented in America

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions. 

by Nina Pasquini

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter-Brown

Brophy

Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

Daniel Mason posing with a tree

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Yamamoto's installation, made of 20 orange tubes that stretch from floor to ceiling in a white room.

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

illustration of an open book with an American flag as the cover, into which a stream of migrants is entering

The Immigrant Experience

Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative

by Nina Pasquini

Lowell House opera

Harvard Lowell House Opera Reimagines an Art Form

Students and professionals collaborate on The Unknowable, an opera-ballet set to premiere at Sanders Theatre this weekend. 

by Nina Pasquini

Supreme Court atop 14th amendment with voting stickers in background

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Professor Myisha Eatmon photographed in Harvard's Barker Center

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

A woman in an orange sweater and cap stands in front of a large blue and green painting of a water-skiing woman.

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Tom Hyry photographed in Houghton Library

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick