Centerpiece: Fall 2019

The Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality (WIGi) was started in 2015 by Jason Beckfield, Iris Bohnet, Mary Brinton, Claudia Goldin, Alexandra Killewald, and Kathleen McGinn. The initiative recently concluded its research in the spring of 2019. WIGi...

This fall heralded the start of a new—and timely—research group at the Weatherhead Center: the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs. This project engages in a multidisciplinary study of Shi’ism, the second largest denomination in Islam, at a crucial...

2019–2020 Kenneth I. Juster Fellows The Weatherhead Center is pleased to announce its 2019–2020 class of Juster Fellows. Now in its ninth year, this grant initiative is made possible by the generosity of the Honorable Kenneth I. Juster, former chair of...

Our 2018 conference in Talloires, France, brought together scholars from Europe and the US to consider the causes of—and threats posed by—the rise of radical politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Rather than engaging in definitional struggles or...

Toward a Politics of Responsibility: The Case of Climate Change Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Delivered on November 21, 2019

Last spring, eighteen Harvard College students received travel grants from the Weatherhead Center to support their thesis field research on topics related to international affairs. Since their return in September, the Weatherhead Center has encouraged...

Coups and Revolutions: Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi By Amy Austin Holmes In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin...

Michael Kremer Wins Nobel Prize in Economics Faculty Associate Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics at Harvard University, is one of three recipients awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in...

As we reach the midway point of the academic year, I’m delighted to have the opportunity to connect with the broad Weatherhead Center community. I have been part of the WCFIA for a long time, first as a Harvard Academy postdoctoral fellow, as a Faculty...

The fall 2019 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities. Learn more about Acting Center Director Melani Cammett in her Message from the Director column, where she discusses a new project at the WCFIA and stresses the importance of...