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