Articles by Department: Harvard Portrait

Heather Gerken Photograph by Stu Rosner When the election of a president appeared to hang in the balance, the media came knocking at…

In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology…

Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) radio dispatchers refer to officers by their badge numbers. Patrolman James P. Sullivan’s badge is…

Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share’s desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell ’37, Litt.D. ’66, the poet Share…

"My one regret about being an Americanist," says Lisa McGirr, who has just been promoted to associate professor of history, "is…

Photograph by Jon Chase One week after publication of the human genome, Andrew W. Murray, professor of molecular and cellular biology…

On a ward at Children’s Hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying…

A family-law scholar

When she was an eight-year-old living on Long Island, Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. ’89, wrote to two oceanic research centers, Scripps and Woods Hole. “I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau,” …

Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D. at MIT in 1991…

As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has…