Alumni Profiles


Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Near and Distant Objectives

Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.

by Lincoln Caplan

Claudia Jones

Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964

by Clarissa Atkinson

An Embodied Voice

Adriana Colón forges aural connections.

by Matteo Wong

“A Kind of Justice in the World”

Ian K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Fire in “A Burning”

Megha Majumdar’s novel of India resonates in the United States.

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

Melissa Dell

“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“From Neither Here Nor There”

Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people

by Lydialyle Gibson

One Small Step for Music

A professor’s interstellar reach

by Jacob Sweet

“Theater Is Church”

Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life

by Stuart Miller