Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Lawyer for Art
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
by Sanya Sagar
NONapathetic
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
“Generational Pivot”
Arne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
by David L. Tannenwald
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
by Philip S. Koch
Painter, Anew
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
by Olivia Schwob
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
by Sophia Nguyen
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Rebel Lawyer
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Building Strong Communities”
New HAA president Margaret Wang ’09
by Nell Porter-Brown