Centerpiece: Spring 2021

Ezra Vogel (1930–2020) Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University, passed away on December 20, 2020, at age ninety. He was the founding director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and served in that...

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2020–2021 academic year: Daniel E. Agbiboa, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies...

Meet the New Director: Erin Goodman CENTERPIECE: Welcome to the Weatherhead Center! Tell us about your new role as the director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program. ERIN GOODMAN: Broadly speaking, my role is to welcome an annual cohort of 20–25 visiting...

This fall, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies celebrates thirty-five years since our first class of postdoctoral scholars joined the program back in the fall of 1986. Change is very much in the air as we undergo shifts in leadership...

2020–2021 Graduate Student Associates The Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program is one of the Center's oldest and most valued programs. Directed by Erez Manela, professor of history and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate, the program welcomes...

By Bibi-Zuhra Faizi Kabul, Afghanistan is the fifth fastest-growing city in the world. The population of the city multiplied from 1.5 million in 2001 to six million by 2014, spurred by insecurity in rural areas, forced repatriation of Afghan refugees from...

Interview by Michelle Nicholasen The Weatherhead Center welcomes its ninth director, Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University and Professor in the Department of Global Health...

People, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa Edited by Takehiko Ochiai, Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Daniel E. Agbiboa The term 'African Potentials' refers to the knowledge, systems, practices, ideas and values created and implemented in African societies that...

Benjamin Enke Named Sloan Fellow Faculty Associate Benjamin Enke, assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, is one of 128 early-career scholars who received a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship. Awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the...

It has been a true privilege and honor to serve as acting director and director of the Weatherhead Center since 2014. I am absolutely delighted that Melani Cammett will be stepping into this role in July. Melani is the Clarence Dillon Professor of...