2026–2027

Who Gets to Use Their College Skills? Skill-Job Alignment and Earnings Inequality Among College Graduates Speaker Aleksei Opacic, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors Frank Dobbin, Faculty Associate. Henry Ford II Professor of...

Human Capital and the Organization of Production in Low-Income Countries Speaker Tommaso Porzio, Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School. Contact Olivia Kim oskim@fas.harvard.edu A copy of this paper is available to...

Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940 Speaker Hero Ashman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES), Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors...

The Ravaging of Arab Statehood and the Renewal of Resistance: Lessons from Jordan and Lebanon Speaker Rami Khouri, Journalist, media analyst, and author; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC; Founding Director and Distinguished Public...

Infrastructures of Intimacy: Technology, Gender, and Family Formation in the Digital Era Speaker Zehra Yildirim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact Hannah Castner hcastner@g.harvard.edu

Constructing Compromise: Regional Coalition-Building, Local Developmental Politics, and BART Extensions after 1999 Speaker Rachel Y. Kim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors Frank Dobbin, Faculty Associate. Henry Ford II...

The Photojournalist as Witness This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar. Photojournalists are witnesses to the most intimate moments of humanitarian crises, exposing realities that authorities...

Kickoff and Professional Development Please join us for food, fellowship, and brainstorming our workshop goals - alongside your individual goals - for the semester ahead. In the last 45 minutes, Professor Jocelyn Viterna will lead a professionalization...

Tariffs and State Capacity: A Specific Story Speaker Martin Rotemberg, Associate Professor of Economics, New York University. Contact Polina Barker polinabarker@fas.harvard.edu This seminar is organized jointly with MIT and cosponsored by the Department...

Quantifying the Sensitivity of Quantitative Trade Models Speaker Ed Wiles, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact Polina Barker polinabarker@fas...