# Annual Reports Our *Weatherhead Center Annual Report* highlights activities from each academic year. We feature the various programs, projects, and research clusters that allow us to convene influential scholars, students, and experienced practitioners from around the world. Every report illuminates the prior year’s special events, conferences, and seminars that ground the Center’s many activities. We also share information on the faculty and student projects the Center funds—one of our highest priorities. Message from the Director ## 2024–2025 "As the world faces countless geopolitical and climactic challenges, and the United States grapples with a new era in domestic politics, the foundations of decades-long principles of the international order have been shaken. Here at the Weatherhead Center, we remain steadfast in our mission to support and amplify the groundbreaking research—on the preeminent issues facing our world today—of the social scientists among our faculty and our student body, and to foster debate and understanding by hosting dozens of visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and practitioners each year..." [ Read the 2024–2025 Annual Report arrow\_circle\_right ](https://indd.adobe.com/view/9d0c737e-8cc0-4166-8dc3-aed66883d623) ![2024–2025 annual report cover.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-09/Annual%20Report%20Covers%20for%205050%20Card%20%282%29.png?itok=_lnJWn95) Message from the Director ## 2023–2024 "This year was a challenging one at Harvard. Turmoil was rife on many US campuses, in response to the crisis in Gaza and more, and Harvard was no exception. The Weatherhead Center is uniquely positioned to rise to such challenges. The throughline at Weatherhead has been our continued commitment to modeling civil discourse and debate in the midst of this turmoil. Dialogue is what we have sought to foster, to curate, and to host—on campus, online, and within our community of scholars and fellows in residence at the Weatherhead Center..." [ Read the 2023–2024 Annual Report arrow\_circle\_right ](https://indd.adobe.com/view/f7fca681-b844-427b-bd1e-6d5c4ad646dd) ![Cover for 2023-2024 annual report.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-09/Annual%20Report%20Covers%20for%205050%20Card.png?itok=DDe-qtHI) Message from the Acting Director ## 2022–2023 "This year, I was honored to step into the role of acting director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs as our director, Melani Cammett, took a well-earned sabbatical. It was also the year that the Center—like the University at large—returned to something like normal life for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. One way we reconnected with our community was through our new Weatherhead Spotlight series, where we gathered in person to learn about the latest research conducted by our affiliates..." [ Read the 2022–2023 Annual Report arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/wcfia/files/weatherheadcenterannualreport22-23-lowres.pdf) ![2022-2023 Annual Report cover.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-09/Annual%20Report%20Covers%20for%205050%20Card%20%281%29.png?itok=x_urFIVx) --- ## Communications & Events Staff [### Kristin Caulfield ](/people/kristin-caulfield) Manager of Communications. Pronouns: she/her ![Kristin Caulfield.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/caulfield_kristin_0.jpeg?h=e1a92da4&itok=oPwp80rZ) [### Lauren McLaughlin ](/people/lauren-m-mclaughlin) Communications Coordinator. Pronouns: she/her ![Lauren McLaughlin.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/mclaughlin_lauren.jpg?h=4aebc441&itok=MNVebF1f) [### Michelle Nicholasen ](/people/michelle-nicholasen) [michelle\_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu](mailto:michelle_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu)Editor and Content Producer. ![Michelle Nicholasen.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/nicholasen_michelle.jpg?h=e200d4d4&itok=V7kp1HBd) [### Sarah Banse ](/people/sarah-banse) Events Manager. ![Sarah Banse.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/banse_sarah.jpg?h=f7cd30db&itok=54nDa9fj)