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Two Faculty Associates Named 2026–2027 Berlin Prize Fellows
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...
Daniel Carpenter Named Harvard College Professor
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...
Lisa Berkman Wins Walter Holland Lifetime Achievement Award
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...
Two Faculty Associates Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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 Receive Guggenheim Fellowship
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...
Andrew Gordon Receives Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award
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...
Joaquim Meira Receives Samuelson Traveling Fellowship
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...
Tarun Khanna Elected to 2026 Class of Bellagio Center Residency Program
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...
Gabrielle Oliveira Wins Outstanding Book Award
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...
Sven Beckert’s Book Made the 2026 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist
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...
Antonia Maioni Named Next President of John Cabot University
Former William Lyon Mackenzie King Professor Antonia Maioni, now professor of political science and public policy at McGill University, has been named the next president of John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Maioni will be the first woman to lead the...
Julian Gewirtz Named to the Post Next 50 List
Former Academy Scholar Julian Gewirtz (who was also an Undergraduate Associate at the Weatherhead Center) was named to the Post Next 50 list—a list of fifty people shaping our society in 2025 by the Washington Post. The inaugural list was aimed to...
Kashish Bastola Wins Marshall Scholarship
Undergraduate Associate Kashish Bastola ’26 is the recipient of a 2026 Marshall Scholarship, which finances young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty students are selected each year to study at graduate level...
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna Elected 2025 Best Leader
Advisory Committee member Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO of Mercy Corps, was named one of US News Best Leaders in 2025 for her leadership and compassion in an uncertain world. The 2025 Best Leaders rankings spotlight twenty-five exceptional individuals across...
Noah Feldman Appointed University Professor
Faculty Associate Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the recipients of the highest faculty distinctions at Harvard University with an appointment as University Professor. The Harvard Gazette notes that “the...
Sunil Amrith Wins British Academy Book Prize
Former Faculty Associate Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, is the recipient of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for his book, The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years (W. W. Norton)...
Paul Kosmin Wins American Historical Association Award
Faculty Associate Paul Kosmin, Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History at Harvard University, has been awarded the American Historical Association 2025 Prize in History Prior to CE 1000. His book, The Ancient Shore (Harvard University Press), was...
Michael Sandel Wins 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture
Faculty Associate Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, is the 2025 recipient of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture in recognition of his influential work on justice, ethics, markets, and...
Ieva Jusionyte Wins 2025 MacArthur Fellowship
Former Faculty Associate Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology in the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, was selected as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow—a no-strings...
Beth Simmons Elected President of APSA
Former Weatherhead Center Director Beth Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science Penn Law at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the 2025...
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