Students & Alumni

Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.

No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water

Enjoying the Boston Harbor’s Renaissance This Summer

by Nell Porter-Brown

Art and Activism

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Tuning In to Urban Noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

“Gorey’s World”

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Broadsheet Coffee Roasters

An antidote to Starbucksification?

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stories for Change

Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.

by Sanya Sagar

Henry Chapman Mercer

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

The Low End Theory

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy

Prodigies’ Progress

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert