Speaker:

Merry White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Speaker:

Eduardo Montero, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard...

Speaker:

James Kung, Professor of Social Science, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Contact:

Gia Petrakis
gpetrakis@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Eric Chaney, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics,...

Speaker:

Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Contact:

Yueran Zhang
yueranzhang@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Department of History,...

We warmly welcome students of Harvard College to our annual Open House for Undergraduates.

Meet Weatherhead Center faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, fellows, staff, and IRoC members. Learn about Weatherhead Center grants and opportunities for undergraduates including:

• Summer travel grants for thesis research
• Research internships in France
• Study groups led by Weatherhead Center affiliates
• Winter-break grants for research and travel
• Research assistant positions to faculty...

Speaker: 

Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology, New York University.

Contact:

Yueran Zhang
yueranzhang@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Julia Stephens, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Commentator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Mitchell Bacci, PhD Candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together...

Christy Thornton, WIGH Postdoctoral Fellow; Assistant Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Commentator: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Angelica Marquez-Osuna, PhD Candidate in the History of Science, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty...

"The Everyday Politics of Imperial Sovereignty: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines"
Justin Jackson, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Assistant Professor of History, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Commentators:
Omar Gueye, Professor of History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Roberto Saba, 2017-2018 Hench Postdoctoral Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

Moderators:
Professors Sven Beckert, Charles S. Maier, and...

“The Road to the Alt Right: How Race and Culture Split the Neoliberal Movement”
Quinn Slobodian, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; ACLS Burkhardt Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College

Commentator: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Graduate Student Commentator: Marino Felipe Auffant, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together...

Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University

The slave runaway (maroon) landscape was a vast area extending from plantations to distanced hinterlands runaways moved through, lived, and interacted with slave, Amerindian, and non-slaveholding Spanish communities with whom they established alliances, social networks, and trade relationships. I discuss my ongoing research aimed toward locating slave runaway sites in southwestern Dominican Republic beginning with the first recorded African slave revolt in 1521 until the abolition of slavery in 1822. Although the ephemeral archaeological...