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Mashail Malik was always interested in human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics. On a June evening in 2009, militants detonated a car bomb packed with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives near the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 17 and injuring…Continue Reading Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers

Two Harvard professors have won prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association. Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was selected for the 2023 James Madison Award, a triennial honor recognizing a lifetime of distinguished scholarly contributions to the field of political science. “I understand it’s probably the highest…Continue Reading Theda Skocpol, Daniel Carpenter land prestigious political science awards

NYT Editorial by Tiya Miles It’s been two years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, one we can celebrate together as a nation. The signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021 was an expression of real progress in the collective understanding of Black struggle that reinforced our national ideals of…Continue Reading As Juneteenth Goes National, We Must Preserve the Local

Their eyes filled with tears, their mouths with accusations after losing a game of European handball. The fourth- and fifth-graders were so upset that they soon received counsel from a gym teacher. “You need to accept that this is how it goes, and not just say that they cheated,” he told them. “But they were…Continue Reading How schools teach children about their social station

Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1….Continue Reading Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president