Humanities & Arts
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel Wins Philosophy’s Berggruen Prize
The creator of the popular ‘Justice’ course receives a $1 million award.
Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School
The scholar of the African American religious experience will become dean January 1.
Speaking Volumes
Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
Among the Brokenhearted
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
by James Engell
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks