R. Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics, Boston College

Abstract: The original objective of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was to provide equal educational opportunity to women and girls. As the doors of opportunity swung open, women and girls rushed through, outperforming their male counterparts at nearly all educational levels. Yet over the past decade, Title IX has become more...

African Studies Workshop

Kenda Mutongi is Professor of African History at Williams College and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor of History at MIT. Her research interests include: Modern Africa (focus on eastern and southern Africa); Women’s and Gender History; Political Economy; Urban History; Historical Ethnography; and Business History. At Williams College, Mutongi has served as chair of the Africana Studies and the Africa/Middle Eastern Studies Programs, is on the editorial boards of several journals in African Studies, and teaches a...

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Iurii Zazuliak, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Ivan Krypiakevych Institute ofUkrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv, Ukraine)

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies

Marci Shore,  Associate Professor of History, Yale University 

Speaker:

Leonardo Bursztyn, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

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:

Benjamin Olken, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of 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...

Speaker:

Julian Go, Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston 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...

The Weatherhead Center invites you to its annual conference featuring senior thesis research presentations by its Undergraduate Associates. For full details, including the agenda and presentation abstracts, please visit the conference website at http://conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/undergraduate_thesis.

Contact:

Clare Putnam
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9899

See also: ...

The Weatherhead Center invites you to its annual conference featuring senior thesis research presentations by its Undergraduate Associates. For full details, including the agenda and presentation abstracts, please visit the conference website at http://conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/undergraduate_thesis.

Contact:

Clare Putnam
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9899

See also: ...

Speaker:

Rachel Sweet, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Contact:

Kaitlyn Chriswell
chriswell@g.harvard.edu

See also: Political Violence Workshop, 2017-2018...

Speaker:

Alma Steingart, Lecturer, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Shana Ashar
shana_ashar@hks.harvard.edu

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and...

Book Round Table
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad
S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

Discussants:
Timothy J. Colton, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
 

...

Scholars from four disciplines discuss the origins and consequences of the resurgence of scientific categories of race in right-wing thought.

Speakers:
Janet Helms...