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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 ](/news/2026/05/daniel-carpenter-named-harvard-college-professor) May 08, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/04/lisa-berkman-wins-walter-holland-lifetime-achievement-award) April 29, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/04/two-faculty-associates-elected-american-academy-arts-sciences) April 28, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/04/four-faculty-associates-receive-guggenheim-fellowship) April 15, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/04/andrew-gordon-receives-everett-i-mendelsohn-excellence-mentoring-award) April 09, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/03/joaquim-meira-receives-samuelson-traveling-fellowship) March 24, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/03/tarun-khanna-elected-2026-class-bellagio-center-residency-program) March 12, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/03/gabrielle-oliveira-wins-outstanding-book-award) March 09, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/02/sven-beckerts-book-made-2026-lionel-gelber-prize-shortlist) February 25, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/02/antonia-maioni-named-next-president-john-cabot-university) February 13, 2026 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 ](/news/2026/01/julian-gewirtz-named-post-next-50-list) January 14, 2026 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... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 22 ](?page=21 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")