Alumni Profiles
Dialogue, not Debate
American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.
by Max J. Krupnick
Makeda Best
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
by Sophia Nguyen
Art and Activism
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch
Mary Ellen Avery
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore
Tuning In to Urban Noise
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
by Nell Porter Brown
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
by Jesse McCarthy
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
by Jennifer McFarl...
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür