Awards

Faculty Associate Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University, and Ya-Wen Lei, professor of sociology at Harvard University, are both 2026–2027 Berlin Prize Fellows. The prize, distributed by the American Academy in...

Faculty Associate Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, is a recent recipient of a Harvard College professorship. The award is the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ highest honor for faculty members who make...

Faculty Associate Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2026 Walter Holland Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, distributed by the London...

Faculty Associates Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University, are newly...

Four Faculty Associates have received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship—an award for trailblazing artists, scientists, and scholars across a variety of fields: Anya Bernstein, professor of anthropology; Mina Cikara, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and...

Faculty Associate Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University, is one of the recipients of the 2026 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The Mentoring Awards, established in 1999 by the Harvard...

Graduate Student Associate Joaquim Meira, PhD Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, is the 2026–2027 recipient of the Lee Whittinghill Samuelson Traveling Fellowship. This fellowship, awarded by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin...

Faculty Associate Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation to join the Bellagio Center Residency Program’s 2026 class—which boasts “more than 5,000 changemakers from more than...

Faculty Associate Gabrielle Oliveira, Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the recipient of the 2026 Outstanding Book Award for her recent publication, Now We Are Here...

Faculty Associate Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, was announced as one of the five authors who made the Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist for his new book, Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin Random House). The Lionel...