Centerpiece: Spring 2025

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, passed away on May 6, 2025, at age eighty-eight. Nye, a political scientist and influential figure in contemporary...

Mala Htun, 1969–2025 American political scientist Mala Htun, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM), passed away on January 24, 2025 at age fifty-five. Htun was a Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead...

By Cory Gillis While cleaning out the basement at 61 Kirkland Street last July, I uncovered a Weatherhead relic tucked behind a long-abandoned filing cabinet. At first glance, it looked like a framed sixteenth-century-style map of the world, complete with...

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates during the 2024–2025 academic year: Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University. Ethnic politics; democracy; minority...

By George Soroka The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, which promotes the study of all major world regions exclusive of the United States and Canada, annually awards a two-year residential postdoctoral fellowship to 5–6 early-career...

Interview by Michelle Nicholasen Mindy Jewell Price has worked with farmers, harvesters, First Nations communities, and policy makers to learn how they anticipate the changes coming to the Northwest Territories. By tracing the lived experiences of...

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, Benjamin Rhodes delivered the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy on "American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era" in Tsai Auditorium at Harvard. Weatherhead Center Director Melani Cammett moderated the...