Centerpiece: Spring 2015

The Weatherhead Center’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations celebrates its thirty-fifth year as a leading program that brings together faculty, students, and visitors at Harvard to advance social science research on Japan’s global role. During the 2014–2015...

Sections Undergraduate Associates 2015–2016 2015 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners Undergraduate Associates 2015–2016 The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the 2015–2016 academic year and have received grants to...

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2014–2015 academic year: Julie Battilana, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Hybrid organizations that diverge from typical...

Empire of Cotton: A Global History By Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton is the epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be...

Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate Nominated as Finalist for 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History; Wins Bancroft Prize Sven Beckert’s book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014), was nominated as a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in...

by Christina E. Crawford Land socialization was one of the first legal acts instituted by the Bolshevik government in 1917, and it was a measure that initiated a feverish period of theorization and construction of new spatial models. If capitalist...

Interview by Kristin Caulfield and Megan Margulies From a very young age, as early as elementary school, Panagiotis Roilos decided that he would study cultural history and literature. He never vacillated from this intellectual trajectory, and Roilos...

To explain what we do from day to day, people in jobs like mine search for metaphors from realms of work that are comparatively much more hands-on. That’s because we’ve realized that our friends and families, who don’t often see us on the job, might...

The spring 2015 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including updates from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and student programs. The Message from the Executive Director is a self-reflective look at the past twenty-two years...