Centerpiece: Spring 2023

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates during the 2022–2023 academic year: Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. The political psychology of...

How Status Drives Inequality In early April, the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (CII) brought together seven scholars for a workshop on the construct of status as a type of inequality. This innovative approach to...

2022–2023 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...

Welcome to the Weatherhead Center! Tell us about your role as Director of Undergraduate Student Programs. During the academic year, I work to avail Harvard undergraduates of the many opportunities the Weatherhead Center offers to them: fellowships; grants...

Interview by Michelle Nicholasen When business is not part of the solution, it is frequently part of the problem. The chairs of the new Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government hope to provide new insights into how business influence can be...

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Gina McCarthy delivered the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy at the Smith Campus Center at Harvard University titled "The Future of Climate Action: A Conversation with Gina McCarthy.” McCarthy, the...

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, Dr. Larry Brilliant delivered the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture at Harvard’s Memorial Church. Titled “Helping Bend the Arc at the Hinges of History: A Conversation with Larry Brilliant,” the event included opening...

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America By Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of...

New Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund, made possible by a generous gift from Advisory Committee member Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah Alaoui of...

This spring has been an exciting semester, full of “we are back!” activities. The new Weatherhead Research Clusters are crackling with energy, and we also held our first in-person Jodidi and Manshel endowed lectures since before the pandemic. Our...