Weatherhead Scholars Program
The Weatherhead Scholars Program offers a rare opportunity to join a vibrant, interdisciplinary cohort at Harvard University, bringing together leading academics and accomplished practitioners from around the world. Established in 1958 as the Fellows Program and reconfigured in 2017, the program reflects a longstanding commitment to bridging scholarship and practice. Today, amid shifting trends in global governance, great power competition, climate disruption, and rising inequality, the program fosters meaningful dialogue between scholars and practitioners working on international, transnational, and comparative global issues.
Based at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs—Harvard’s largest international social science research center—the program benefits from an extraordinary academic ecosystem dedicated to global affairs. The Center promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and serves as a hub where research and real-world insights converge.
The Weatherhead Scholars Program includes postdoctoral researchers, visiting faculty, and experienced professionals such as diplomats, military officers, journalists, civil servants, NGO leaders, and private sector innovators. Most affiliates spend the full academic year in residence, though some participate for a semester. All affiliates pursue independent research and have opportunities to contribute to the Center’s intellectual community.
Administration
Melani Cammett is the faculty chair of the Weatherhead Scholars Program. Walid Hammam is the director. Sarah Pollack coordinates the program.
Melani Cammett
mcammett@g.harvard.edu
Walid Hammam
walid_hammam@wcfia.harvard.edu
Sarah Pollack
spollack@wcfia.harvard.edu
All Programs & Projects
The Weatherhead Center hosts formal programs that link faculty and affiliates working in similar research areas. Projects at the Weatherhead Center are discrete activities that connect interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and students working in a specific research area. Projects may include student internships, multiyear research activities, and more.
Canada Program
Presenting rich intellectual opportunities for Canadian studies at Harvard.
Program on International Relations and International Security
Supporting rigorous research on national security, international conflict, and foreign policy decision making.
Program on US-Japan Relations
Promoting social science research on Japan from comparative, global, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Project on Global History
Helping to transform the study of the past through research that examines historical processes, networks, identities, and events across the boundaries of the nation-states.
SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center
Sustaining organizational scholarship across boundaries.
STAR Lab
Designing and testing new ways for businesses to create positive social impacts, benefit communities, and protect the environment.
The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Dedicated to promoting innovative social science hand-in-hand with deepening our shared knowledge of the experiences and practices of the world’s regions and countries.
