Humanities & Arts
An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
Discussing religious pluralism at Harvard Divinity School
by Lydialyle Gibson
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
by Craig Lambert
James Baldwin’s America, in Photos
A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Zora Neale Hurston in the Spotlight
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
by Brandon J. Dixon
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
by Brandon J. Dixon
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
by Brandon J. Dixon
“Crimmigration”
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
by Lydialyle Gibson