Students & Alumni

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Stephen Gray stands on city sidewalk with street car passing by on right

Features | March-April 2021

Shaping Cities

Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait of Jeannie Suk Gersen, an elegantly dressed Korean American woman leaning against a stone archway.

Features | March-April 2021

Due Process

Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of a stout middle-aged woman seated at her desk, writing

Features | March-April 2021

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant

Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist

by Reed Gochberg

Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones poses stylishly in a studio

Alumni | March-April 2021

Curator of American Culture

Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

A photograph of the border wall stretching toward a mountain in the distance

Students & Alumni |

Encounters at the Border

Photographer Morgan Smith ’60 documents life on the precarious precipice between Mexico and the United States.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Philanthropist Edwin Binney with Helen Willard, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection

Features | January-February 2021

Edwin Binney, 3rd

Brief life of a philanthropic art collector: 1925-1986

by Madison U. Sowell

Shelby Meyerhoff's photographic self-portrait of her head and shoulders transformed with body paints into a blue-ringed octopus

Montage | January-February 2021

“We’re All Animals”

Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting

by Lydialyle Gibson

Producer Jeff Schaffer sits between star Larry David (left) and another cast member on the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” set.

Montage | January-February 2021

“Magical Digressions”

TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny

by Stuart Miller

David Roberts seated outdoors on a stone wall by the Charles River

Alumni | January-February 2021

Defying Limits

David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards

by Nell Porter Brown

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