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Affiliated Programs & Centers
Affiliated Programs at Harvard University
Department of African and African American Studies- The Department of African and African American Studies provides two tracks of study, a focus on Africa and a focus on African-descended peoples in the New World.
- The Department of American Civilization provides its students with a broad but disciplined understanding of the history of American life.
- The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations offers instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, philosophy, history, art history and popular culture of China, Japan, Korea and Inner Asia, from ancient times to the present..
- CMES offers a wide range of programs and activities about the Middle East with the goal of increasing awareness and understanding of the region, both historically and in contemporary perspective.
- The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers eleven distinct graduate programs in different fields of study, all of which are concerned in some way with the peoples and civilizations of the Near East.
Related Groups
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies- CES is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, culture and society at Harvard.
- The new Joint Center for History and Economics was established at Harvard University and King's College, Cambridge in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists.
- The CWC’s mission is to advance research and teaching in the broad range of American historical inquiry, and to serve as a nexus for the community of Americanists at Harvard and in the Boston area.
- The DRCLAS works to increase knowledge of the cultures, economies, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of past and present Latin America.
- The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies interdisciplinary research and study of Russia and the countries surrounding it. It has over 200 affiliates working in disciplines ranging from anthropology to sociology, and whose regional interests span virtually all of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
- Intellectual history is a diverse and thriving field of inquiry that emphasizes the transformation of ideas, ideologies, intellectuals, and scholarly institutions over time.
- The study of international and global history at Harvard University includes the concerns of classic diplomatic history, but also encompasses such topics as international bodies, the movements of people, commodities or germs, and the transnational diffusion of ideas, ideologies, norms and cultural images or practices.
- The Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas Since 1760 focuses on large scale political, economic and cultural systems, in particular Atlantic history and South East Asian and Indian Ocean history. The program also focuses on the history of political and economic thought in a large scale context of economic, religious and legal history.
- The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly and public interest in Japan and Japanese studies at Harvard and around the world.
- The South Asia Initiative focuses on the study of South Asia, particularly modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and comprehensively examines South Asia's economy and culture.
- The WCFIA supports cutting-edge research in international affairs, from development to foreign policy, from security to international economic affairs, from social issues to global and transnational history.
Related Groups and Centers (New Additions)
Business, Government and the International Economy- The BGIE Unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on perspectives from all three of these disciplines.
- The Committee on Medieval Studies promotes and coordinates work on late antique, medieval, and Byzantine and sponsors events and activities for medieval enthusiasts at Harvard University and in the Boston area generally.
- The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, political science, sociology, theology, and other disciplines.
- The Humanities Center seeks to foster collaborations between the humanities, social sciences, and sciences in the belief that the humanities make a unique contribution in establishing - through interpretation and conversation - communities of interest and climates of opinion.
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, DC, is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications.
- The Fairbank Center sponsors nine ongoing seminars on themes ranging from East Asian art history to Chinese current events, and organizes research projects and major international conferences on a wide variety of scholarly topics. It also provides a forum for regular dialogue between the academic and policy communities in China and the United States.
- The Harvard China Fund works to support interdisciplinary research and teaching about and in China, focus Harvard's considerable strengths in the field towards directly tackling challenges that face China and improve communication and collaboration with Chinese scholars and institutions.
- Led by an interdisciplinary group of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and historians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the CAPS fosters discussion, research, public outreach, and pedagogy about all aspects of modern U.S. politics.
- The Institute is a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of education of higher education in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on culture, in East and Southeast Asia.
- The Du Bois Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans.
Here are the list of some of the many programs, centers and organizations both on and off-campus that students, faculty and staff are involved in.