Awards

Karl Kaiser, Senior Associate of the Weatherhead Center's Program on Transatlantic Relations and adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. Recipients of this award, given by...

Congratulations to WCFIA Undergraduate Associates Hanna Amanuel, Alice Siqi Han, and Bianca Mulaney, who are among the winners of the 2016 Hoopes Prize. Every year awards are given to a group of Harvard seniors who demonstrate outstanding scholarly work...

Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, was awarded the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to the understanding of racism and the...

Bianca Mulaney is one of two Harvard recipients to receive the Marshall Scholarship, which finances talented young Americans to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. Mulaney, whose research interests involve assessing the economic impact of...

Congratulations to WCFIA Faculty Associate Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History. His book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, has been selected as a finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. The Cundill Prize in Historical...

Congratulations to WCFIA Faculty Associate Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, for being named one of five new Harvard College Professors. Each year, a few faculty members are named Harvard College Professors to recognize their excellence in...

Weatherhead Center Director Michèle Lamont , the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The...

Melani Cammett's Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2015) won the 2015 Giovanni Sartori Book Award of the APSA Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research and the Honorable Mention for the 2015...

Weatherhead Center Director Michèle Lamont, the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University, has been elected the 108th president of the American Sociological...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of eighty-four new members and twenty-one foreign associates from fifteen countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Read More…