Awards

Faculty Associates David Bloom and Laurence Ralph; former Graduate Student Associate and Harvard Academy Scholar Fotini Christia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); and former Graduate Student Associate Mala Htun (University of New Mexico) were named...

Sven Beckert's book Empire of Cotton: A Global History was named a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History. The committee called it "a work of staggering scholarship arguing that slavery was crucial to the dynamism of the industrial revolution."...

Faculty Associate Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, has been awarded the 2015 Bancroft Prize. Winners are judged in terms of the scope, significance, depth of research, and richness of interpretation they present in the areas of...

Congratulations to Undergraduate Associate Daniel Barcia '15, studying history, who has been honored with a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time...

Faculty Associate Sven Beckert's book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, has been feature in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. The book tells the story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its...

Congratulations to Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate Stephen Walt, the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, for receiving the International Studies Association’s (ISA) 2015 Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. The award is given...

Congratulations to Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates Melissa Dell, Gita Gopinath, and Nathan Nunn for being named top young economists by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The list of twenty-five young economists are considered to be leaders who...