Students & Alumni

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

Catherine Zipf smiling, wearing striped shirt and dark sweater outdoors.

Preserving the History of Jim Crow Era Safe Havens

Architectural historian Catherine Zipf is building a database of Green Book sites.  

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portrait of Donald Hall 2014

The Poet of Old Age

Donald Hall, chronicler of life

by Adam Kirsch

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

World War II domestic propaganda posters urge civilian compliance with rationing

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Rudy Ruiz

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration showing U.S. flag pulled different directions by an oligarch and ordinary citizens

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard alumni in their Commencement day finery preparing for the traditional alumni parade

Celebrating Alumni, Anew

Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting

Photo of Carolyn Gold and the cover of her book, When I Died

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in a 1920s book on his archaeological explorations

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal